Momence High School - Monesse Yearbook (Momence, IL)

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JUNIOR YEAR HOOK, E. A. PORTER. TEACHERS. MABEL GROVES. FLORENCE CRAIL. MABEL JACKSON. ANNA HANSON. SARAH HANSON. AGNES BARRETT. R. E. SELBY. GERTRUDE HOLMES. ELIZABETH CLEARY, J, R, STEAGALL, ANNA WiLTSE, LENA E. DRAYER. CAROLYN LENEHEN. BERTHA LAMB.

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JUNIOR Y 1 . 2 . 8 . 4. 5. 6 . 7. 8 . 9. 10 . 11 . 12 . 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20 . 21 . 22 . 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. MOMENCE HIGH SCHOOL COURSE. Freshman Year. English. Ancient History. Physiology. Pysical Geography. Latin... Arithmetic. Vocal Music .. Rhetoricals.. Sophomore Year. English... Algebra ................... English and Am. History . . Latin or.. Business Practice and Law. Vocal Music... Rhetoricals. Junior Year. English ... Latin (Cicero). Beginning German......... Biology (Bot. Zoology). . Plane Geometry... Civics. Vocal Music. Rhetoricals.. Senior Year. English. Adv. Al r. and S. Geom Latin (Virgil). German (Second Year) Physics. Reviews.. Vocal Music. Rhetoricals. 1905 !!)()(! and and Cr. 1906. 1907. 3 X X 3 X X , yrl k X X ik X X 3 X X 3 X — 1 X X 1 X X 3 X X 3 X X 3 X X 3 X X 3 — X 4 X X 1 X X 3 X X 3 X — 3 X X 3 — X 3 X X 3 X X 1 X X 1 X X 3 X X 3 — X 3 — X 3 — X 3 X — 3 X — 1 1 X X 1 1 X X A R B 0 0 K . REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION After 1906. (Classes of 1905 and 1906 will graduate under requirements for old course.) FOR COLLEGE PREPARATORY DIPLOMA . Subjects : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17 or 18, 19 or 21, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26 or 27, 28, 31. Total credits, 52. FOR LITERARY SCIENTIFIC DIPLOMA. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19 or 28, 20, 21, 23, 24, 31. Required, 87 credits. Select, 15 credits additional, six of which must be in German or Latin. FOR GENERAL DIPLOMA. Subjects : 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 20, 21, 23, 24, 31. Required, 37 credits. Selects, 15 credits. FOR BUSINESS CERTIFICATE . Subjects : 1, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 15. Required, 17 credits. Select, 9 credits.

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JUNIOR YEAR BOOK. THE FACULTY. The following cut would not go to prove our corps of fifteen teachers, gifted with more than ordinary intellect, good looks, but we stoutly assert the claim in both particulars, and hold the photo¬ grapher responsible for any misrepresentation which might tend toward being productive of adverse criticism. We will not affirm all faces to be modeled after the classic outline, but there isn ' t one which doesn ' t, in real life, reflect sunshine by the pailful. We started in with representives of this company in the primer class, and are now next door to graduating. We ' ve summered and wintered with them through eleven successive years, and we know whereof we speak. There have been seasons that were try¬ ing in certain particulars, but, as we grow older, we reflect that probably those times were, in most instances, more trying to teacher than pupil. Very rarely do we look back over the lapse of years and rarely do we recall an occasion with which to connect any but pleasant memories. Momence is usually conservative in the matter of selecting teachers, preferring to retain the tried and proven, to installing new instructors, simply for the sake of experimenting; and so it comes about that changes occur but rarely, except in those in¬ stances in which the teachers themselves assume the initiative, and resign for the purpose of accepting those positions which de¬ mand an intimate acquaintance with the principles connected with the department of domestic science. In this line, as in many oth¬ ers, Momence teachers are known far and wide as being excep¬ tionally well qualified. We hear continual rumors of the proba¬ bility of several such instances having need to be entered upon the records in the near future. Our old Board, however, is standing for re-election, and it is to be hoped that it may be able to bring such influence to bear as will secure to Momence the continuation of service which has, during recent years, been of so much weight in furthering the best interests of the school. Even Dr. Osier himself could find no fault with our teachers. Without exception, they are under forty years of age; under one hundred and sixty pounds in weight, and with two exceptions, all native Illinoisans. To be accurate, eight of the fifteen were born in or near Momence. This is, in our opinion, about as it should be. By choosing the larger per cent of its teachers from among local candidates, the authori¬ ties, affirm their loyalty to home institutions. On the other hand they frequently import choice material from abroad; such action serving, as one may readily see, to keep up the high standard of excellence to which our school has in recent years attained. Of the members of the present corps, Miss Groves has the honor of being oldest in point of service, having entered the Mo¬ mence schools as teacher in 1892, and being continuously employed since that time. Miss Groves has charge of the first primary de¬ partment ( ' entral school, and also of the history work in the High School. Misses Holmes and Lamb rank next in order of seniority, having been in our school seven and a half and six years respectively. The former has charge of the sixth room, and the latter of room four Central school. Misses Hanson and Jackson of rooms three and four Loraine, and Miss Barrett of room five Central, and Miss Crail, our teach¬ er of music, have each reigned two years to date. Last spring, it being leap year, there was a general exodus on the part of the lady teachers, necessitating the filling of as many as seven vacancies—an unheard of number in Momence. Of our grade teachers, Misses Hanson (room 2), Cleary, (room 3), and Lenehen, (room 8), Central school; Miss Wiltse (room 1), and Mr. Porter (room 4), Loraine, became members of the faculty within the present year. In our High School it was also found necessary to supply two vacancies—Miss Lena Drayer, a graduate of DePauw University, and Mr. J. Roscoe Steagall, a graduate of the Illinois State Normal University, were selected. Miss Drayer has had