Longfellow High School - Log Yearbook (Kearney, NE)

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Mr. W. R. Bratt is the principal of Kearney High School. He holds an A. B. degree from the University of Nebraska. Mr. Bratt has also attended the University of Chicago. Mrs. Mabel P. Scoutt is the registrar of the Kearney High School. She has attended the Kearney State Teachers College, the Columbia University of New York City, and the University of Nebraska. T1-is LuanARiAN. Miss Lucille Hrubeslcy holds an A. B. degree from the University of Nebraska. She has also attended the University of Iowa. Miss Hrubesky is the librarian. ENGLISH DEPARTMENT. In Kearney High School, English is required in the tenth and eleventh grades, and is offered in the twelfth grade. Tenth grade English consists of a course in constructive writ- ing and a study of the classics, Julius Caesar, Idylls of the King, and Neihardt's Song of Hugh Glass. - Junior English includes a course in American literature, a study of the short-story and the study of Shalcespeareis Hamlet and Tennyson's Princess Work in constructive English is also done. In senior English, which is elective, the history of English literature, together with many illustrative selections, is studied. Special periods of study are given to Macbeth, A Tale of Two Cities, Browning's Shorter Poem, and three English comedies. A re- view of English grammar is included in the course. Besides the regular English courses, journalism and dramatics are offered. The teachers in this department are: Miss Augusta Kibler, Miss Alta Kibler, Miss Ruby Morris, and Miss Helen Frundell. Miss Augusta Kibler holds an A. B. degr from the University of Nebraska. She has done graduate work at the Universities Wisconsin and Colorado. Miss Kibler teaches senior English, one class in junior glish and journalism. Miss Alta Kibler has an A. B. degr from the Kearney State Teachers' College. She has attended the Universities of wht a, Wisconsin, Chicago, and the Morse School of t 1- fn? 7 ef-. 5 - 5 1 Augusta Kibler Parsons Frundell Alta Kibler Morris ff.-' V ji-1 ---' i Page Twelve I

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nurses In eaur-Imey gh fc wo W R B an O A Wursng The courses offered In Kearney I-hgh School are college entrance, general, commer cnal, agrlculture, and normal traxmng The college entrance course 15 for those who expect to go to college The general course 15 for those who do not mtend to attend college and who do not destre one of the vocatIonal courses offered The commerclal course ts Intended for only those students who expect to use the slull learned In actual vocat1onal pursults A pupxl may take the lnooklceepxng course alone, the stenographIc course alone, or the two combmed The agrrculture course IS for those who are actnvely Interested In agrlculture, and the worlc must have been begun lh the nmth grade except by speclal arrangement wlth the In structor The normal tratmng course IS for those who expect to teach the year after they flI1l5l'1 hxgh school Students who expect to go to college before teaching should take the college entrance course TI-IE ADMINISTRATION Mr O A Wlrslg IS the supermtendent of the schools of Kearney He holds an A B degree from the Umversxty of Nebraska, and an A M degree from Columbxa UnIversIty, of New York Ctty Mr WIrsIg has also had work toward a doctor's degree at Leland Stanford, Un1vers1ty In Cahforma Scout: Hrubesky Cook Nuernberger Q e K Hi S ll l Page Eleven

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Expression at St Louis MISSOUFI Miss Krbler reaches English V and VI and one class of Fnglish IV Miss Ruby Morris has a B L degree from Northwestern University of Chicago She has done one semesters work toward her A M degree in speech Miss Morris teaches three classes of sophomore English one class of first year expression, and one class of dramatlcs Miss Helen Frundell holds an A B degree from Crete College She teaches two classes m English III and two classes of business English Fonsxorz LANGUAGE Three years of Latin are offered in Kearney High School Spanish which has been taught smce the World War is not to be offered after this year German was introduced into the curriculum last fall and will take the place of Spanish The instructors ln forelgn language are Miss Lydia I-Iusmann Miss Alice Lou Par sons and Miss Ethel Spencer teaches three classes of girls physical training two classes of German and one class of business arithmetic Miss Alice Lou Parsons holds an A B degree from the University of Nebraska She teaches four classes of second and third year Latin and one class of second year Spanish SOCIAL SCIENCE In Kearney High School general history is required in the tenth grade and United States history is required in the twelfth grade General history xs a study of the world before the Greeks the Graecia Oriental world the Roman empire the Age of the Renaissance the Protestant Reformation the French Revolution and the World War United States history includes the study of the New World with the awakening of Europe and the discovery of America and the history of Amerlca to the present time Economics and commercial law are also offered ln this department Smith Knowles Huldreth Bankson , . . Q . l I . . , . . . ' . . . . . , . , . . . . : . . , . . - , l ' Miss Lydia I-Iusmann holds an A. B. degree from the University of Nebraska. She . , . . . 1 7 1 n , .- ' . , . . . . , . . ' . ' , . T . , Y 5 7 . . . , . . Page Thirteen