Lockport Township High School - Lock Yearbook (Lockport, IL)

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Top: The fundamentals of the adding machine are learned by Mildred Scogin and Beatrice Smullen. Kathryn Gecan dictates some shorthand to Ardith Mathers. Bottom: Richard Plagenz explains the proper way of voting to Shirley Strong. Nancy Mickel points out a stop on the map to Frank Cerven. Commerce and Social Science Preparing for the Future . . Typing shorthand secremrial ractice, book , 1 , L p . - keeping, business training, commercial geography, and salesmanship were the courses taken by future secretaries, typists, and accounting experts. These business-minded people spent many hours Hguring balance sheets, studying exports and imports, and building speed in typing so as to attain the expert 0220 level of businessmen. Under the guiding hand of Miss Mildred H. Krusa, Miss Marilyn R. Richards, and Paul E. White, the training and development along these lines made out students stiff competition to others as they entered the business world to make a success of themselves. History, taught by Alex L. johnsonius, Frank

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Top: Frances Ott and Beverly Harvey practice calisthenics. Building muscles on the high bar is Benjamin Ciufiini. Bottom: Adjusting themselves to the water are Joyce Freberg and Jac- queline Bechler. Donald Krumlincle, John Geary, William Allison, and Kenneth Anderson play wa ter polo. Physical Education Health and Happiness Theme of Gym Instructors Where do all these muscles come from? They can be blamed on Miss Eva M. Olson, Frank 1. Rogers, and Lester L. Lindberg who head our physical education department. All sorts of recreation in the gym classes taught the students that they could have fun in a wholesome Way. Miss Olson taught the girls calisthenics, ballroom and square dancing, volley- ball, basketball, swimming, and basket shooting. The boys played football, basketball, baseball, and volleyball under the supervision of Mr. Rogers and Mr. Lindberg. They also swam and performed more advanced calisthenics. All these activities add up to not only muscles but to the healthy. happy students of L.T.H.S. '21

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y y .a-is ,. wk .5 .V -- -,: 4 1. , Miss Marilyn R. Richards, B.A., freshman home room, junior sponsor, Lockou- ians, Lock literary assist- ant, Typing I and II, busi- .ar ,. :V i V' ness training, English III. ' J , .,f , - -- , r gqfjgg is KM. M, - , A J , Q, - Earl C. Snyder, B.A.,M.A., freshman home room, American and world his- tories. Miss Mildred H. Krusa, B.E., senior home room, the Lock, school dances, Lockonians, Stenography I and II, Typing I and II, secretarial practice. Paul E. white, 1s.s.,M.A., senior home room chair- man, civics, economics, commercial geography, salesmanship, business training, bookkeeping. j. Rogers, and Earl C. Snyder, gave many students the feeling to be great like Napoleon or to be another Magellan and travel around the world. It not only gave our students the background for their future reading and understanding by opening a whole realm of facts about ancient and modern civilization, but it also taught them many things about our forefathers and democracy. Edward Flink and Mr. Wliite proved to be excellent referees in the hery arguments which were carried on in civics and economics classes. Future lawyers were given many opportunities to prove their point in the debates, while many students found themselves wanting to be senators and representatives as the mock congress went to session. Antoinette Ragusa and Louis Larson practice filing. Claritta Rutkiewicz and Mary Ann Viskocil run off some drills on the mimeograph. 9230