Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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The Music and the English departments have co-operated in this work. Mr. Hester has been of great assistance in the way of providing music for these meetings. Miss Fozvell helped to entertain the people with several readings. 1 he boys quartette, and the girls quartette have shown a spirit of co-operation that has been very gratifving. The large audiences that have characterized all of these meetings, and the interest show’n by the country people indicates that the High School of Mondovi is meeting a long felt want and is getting at a community problem of no small importance. Our High School is a source of information. Many of the young people who never come to High School arc the ones to whom it means so much. It means so much, for example the farmer who depending upon his hog crop to pay his rent or life his mortgage. 1'hese will never get help. If they are to be helped we must take the High School out into the country to them. Commercial. Roy A. Peterman, Instructor. Three years ago it was decided that the Mondovi High School was to add to its curriculum the Commercial, the Domestic Science, and the Agriculture Departments, thereby placing at the di.-posal of the student some of the most up-to-date, practical subjects. Some question was raised as to the necosity and practicability of the new subjects, but that was soon to be dispensed with. The basement of the new school house was to be used by the Commercial and Domestic Science departments, the former using the north room and the latter the room on the south of the hall. The first year, the typewriting and bookkeeping students recited in the one room, but that caused much inconvenience, so the room was divided bv a partition. The department was equipped with six typewriters; four Monarchs, one Hemington, and one Smith Premier. The interest shown in the work was very encouraging and a large class was taking the work, seventeen of them graduating from the first class last year. Of these, hiancis Broad foot secured a position as stenographer with a firm at Duluth and is making good. Alvin Silverness, who took post-graduate work, secured a position with the (inllahad Bov’s School at Hudson. is. He also made good. 11 i brother. Joseph, is working at the Eirsf National Bank, and is making good use of his commercial training. Esther Sol her has the position of eashier and bookkec| or at the Mondovi Mercantile Company, in dictation work, the class took letters with the rapidity of conversation! and transcribed them, doing practically all of the school’s corresjiondence besides the1 regular routine of work. To say the Commercial department has been a success is putting it mildly. The complete commercial course consists in the main of the following: Arithmetic, Commercial Daw. Shorthand. Bookkeeping and lypewriting. All of these subjects are practical, and when the student completes the course lie is able to enter any office as a stenographer and make good. An D. C. Smith Bros., typewriter has t een added to the department also and the system of

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jfeltff IT T H E-M-jrR:! R- □ Graham shorthand has l een changed to the Gregg, although the advanced Graham class are continuing the Graham system with the exception of Clay Knowles, Rex Claflin, and Walter Amidon, who have changed to the Gregg system. Remington typewriting speed contests are being taken, the first one only a short time ago for the primary award, which a good share of the advanced class passed. W e hope to be able, by the end of the year, to secure tire primary, the efficiency, and the grand awards, which are all significant of the fact that our commercial department will stand the acid test with any first class business college. (On the previous page is shown a picture of one of typewriting clause, wr.ting from dictation.) Domestic Science. Blanche H. Dodge. Instructor. Domestic Science has come to be recognized as an important factor in a girl's education. It is no longer an experiment. Xo mistake can be made in teaching a girl cooking, sewing, general hygiene, and the planning of meals. The course is practically a new one in the schools, having been introduced three years ago. The work begins in the sixth grade and continues through the second year in high school. The work is compulsory in the grades, but elective in the high school. The grade work is given on alternate days during the week. Practical work in cooking and serving, suited to home needs, is given. The high school work is given two periods daily, and not only continues the practical work offered in the grades, but takes up in addition the study of foods, the serving of meals, and household management. Domestic Science Principles and Applications has been introduced as a text in the high school. This text does away with the keeping of elaborate note books on the part of the pupils, saves the time used in dictating notes, and makes the work more permanent and lasting throughout. The school work is being correlated with the home work and credit is given for duties and work performed at home. A report is handed in every two weeks of the home work which the student has done. This must be signed by the parent or guardian. The aim of the department is to give the girls practical and cultural ideas which will help them in their homes. (The picture on the previous page shows the Sophomore Domestic Science class.) Mathematics. C. Floyd Hester, Instructor. With the exception of English, mathematics has a greater direct practical value than any other subject. It is intimately connected with the successful conduct of the affaire of every day life. The farmer, the merchant, the engineer,