Martinsville High School - Artesian Yearbook (Martinsville, IN)

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Building Sound Bodies Is Major Educational Aim Promoting physical health and well-being is a major aim of the modern school system. Classes in health and safety stress accident prevention, first-aid procedures, disease prevention and care, and bal¬ anced diet. Actual training in safe driving is offered in the driver training program. Horton Bisesi Coglan McDonald The actual development of better physical bodies through exercise is promoted by the physical education classes. Un¬ til his resignation Burchard Horton taught health and safety and had classes in phys¬ ical education. In January his classes w ere taken over by Clifford Hill. Vincent Bisesi handles the driver training classes; Norman Coglan, boys’ physical education, and Mrs. Doris McDonald, girls’ physi¬ cal education. jJVEft training • a! tNDPICKSON t, COMPANY I your, f • C) f? D dealer ■ foftwswM- Jmi- Page Eleven

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Page Ten Rankin Johnson McKrill Learning the use of the new air brush is just one way that art students can express their talent. They also learn to use oils, watercolors, tempera, pastel, textiles, linoleum block, metals and clay. Roy Rankin gave up the elementary art supervision to come to the high school full time in January. “Europa non est insula.” Foreign languages not only improve our vocabularies but also give us an insight into the ways of life in other countries. Mrs. Mathilda McKrill, head of the department, teaches Latin, and Mrs. Mary Louise Johnson has the Span¬ ish classes. Cultural Opportunities Aid Personality Building While music offers vocational possibilities to a few talented people, the music department serves a more important function in our educational building process. Along with art, literature, and languages it develops cultural appreciation, not only in the active participants but in the student body through Elliott P. Smith frequent music programs at convocation time. Richard Elliott, head of the department, directs the band and orchestra and teaches harmony. Miss Priscilla Smith directs the vocal groups and the string orchestra. Both teachers also carry on instru¬ mental work with grade school pupils.

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Principal Royce E. Kurtz Superintendent Glenn Curtis Head Supervisors Direct Huge Project Offices of the head contractor and chief foreman are occupied by Mr. Glenn Curtis and Mr. Royce E. Kurtz. Superintendent Curtis is constantly striving for new and prac¬ tical methods for the school. Through his effort we have under construction a new farm shop. Mr. Curtis supervises three grade schools and the junior-senior high school. This school city of 2,270 pupils and 99 em¬ ployees has a larger enrollment than any other city in our population class. Chief foreman Kurtz is responsible for the direct supervision of teachers and the total school program. During Mr. Kurtz’s five years as principal, we have broadened our guidance program, including testing and personal counseling; enlarged the curricular offerings to include such new areas as Span¬ ish, Latin America and the Far East, remedial English, bookkeeping, speech, and driver training, and published the student hand¬ book, Red and Blue. Handling many of the details of these offices are Miss Maxine Cohen, secretary to the principal; Miss Mamie Messmer, secretary to the superintendent, and Mrs. Barbara Caress, who works both in the office of the superintendent and the assistant principal. Maxine Cohen Mamie Messmer Barbara Caress Page Twelve