Mason City High School - Masonian Yearbook (Mason City, IA)

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lim -Edie,-um' f' A Aw-r A M' WILLIAM CAMERON BERTHA STARKUS Junior English Senior English , lnterpretive Reading ARLINE DAUM l ROBERT HAUSEMAN Sophomore English Junior English Senior English f Stage Crew English is . kt A , FOLK SINGERS - Students in a senior English class display various expressions as they sing the ballads of Robert Burns. LAB WORKERS - Linda Waslick and Jack Sutcliff go over the final draft of their themes while Paul Daugherty checks off an assignment in an English writing laboratory. PERIODICAL PICKERS-Browsing through magazines, junior English students increase their knowledge of modern literature. ,gl to ...'1saw '1 4m -fff .i lr Ammmfin 1l ..m..:

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provide needed service The Dagwoods sold for 25 cents, salads for i5 cents, desserts and malts for lO cents. Several students helped in the cafeteria selling a-la- carte items, scraping plates and working on cleanup. Only those students who had study hall during the lunch period were allowed to do these jobs. Six custodians were responsible for keeping the school clean and in good repair this year. They are Clarence Anderson, head custodian, Eddie Kline, l-larold Price, Garry Sahr, Richard Miller, janitors, and Myrtle Stolten- berg, janitress. The custodians' work dcesn't end when the schools close for the summer. While the students are on vaca- tion, the janitors join work groups to do redecoration and repair work on all school buildings. Despite the crowded classrooms, students of Mason City High School are proud of their school and the good condition in which it is always kept. WIPE THE SLATE CLEAN - Custodian Garry Sahr washes a chalk- board as he prepares a teacher's room for another school day. SALES PITCHQHI make the best malts in town, try one, says Larry Beaver, malted milk machine operator. KEY QUESTION - l-lead Custodian Clarence Anderson Often finds it necessary to open lockers for students. .- W ,... f,. at u. 'r... tiki M W I Q ici' is 3 .' 41 iv! n fi Kms' wg' GLEAMING WINDOWSY.lanitress Myrtle Stoltenberg polishes a door window until it gleams brightly,

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f CARL ALBERT RALPH WILKINSON Sophomore English i Sophomore English Junior English +- mg , Q 5' utr E BERNICE BOSVELD JOHN WOOD Junior English Sophomore English Dramatics Christmas Program Junior Adviser IZqli5ll English provides opportunities to learn by doing Back in the years of the first Masonians meth- ods of teaching English were undergoing a great change. The change was from the old rules of mechanical memory work to the inductive method, involving the idea of letting the student learn by doing. Today a Mason City High School English stu- dent is given many opportunities to learn by do- ing. In the sophomore year students are exposed to a thorough study of the library. During this study class time is actually spent in the library to give students first-hand advantages. Juniors relate their studies by writing short themes and stories in connection with their read- ing in American Literature. Senior English provides many opportunities to learn by doing. These range from dancing and singing old Scottish ballads to writing diaries in the manner of Samuel Pepys, a l7th century government official, IF A BODY MEET A BODY -- Sue Sarset and Jim Dallas dance to the folk song, Coming Through the Rye. L Junior English students are taking part in an experiment in team teaching and flexible grouping of classes this year. English teachers Bernice Bos' veld and William Cameron have combined their individual teaching abilities for the best possible learning advantage to the students. Together both teachers, who have identical schedules, are in charge of about sixty students each teaching period. Students are grouped for each unit according to their abilities. Mrs. Bosveld concentrates on teaching writing skills while Cameron teaches most of the reading skills. One disadvantage of this program is the lack of adequate facilities for the combined groups. Ses- sions with the entire sixty students are held in the auditorium. Teachers wanting extra help in correcting writ- ten work use the lay reader program. ERROR OF YOUR WAYS - Bernice Bosveld uses an opaque projector to show mechanical errors made on themes. -un-q as l sill