Monmouth High School - Maroon and Gold Yearbook (Monmouth, IL)

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1 1 1 l 1 1 ee 1 is 1 Sl'lClCt'll lil'HXX'll now cow liowl l 11101111 lirown how Cow nowll IIUXX' NOW' HKUXYN L'UXVlll So the story goes i11 sin-eCl1 class. llllllltl' thc supervisioii of Klrs, llarroll Lillltplllllll. the spa-4-cli class had anotlier siicccssfiil year. The speecli classes, 11121110 up mostly of seniors, learned the lllIlll2lllli'lllIllh of spec-Q11 making, conversation, and other essentials of speech. 'lllll'0llgllOllt the year the IHI7i'1'Cll classes studied lPZtllllllllllllCS, radio plays. voice training and personality develop- ll1l'Ill. .iiotions and gestures, and Illillly others. .Nn annual lilll'lSl1ll2l5 production is a feature of the spec-C11 Classes, and is presented hefore the student lmody. Blain' other artivities which the Slllxlxfll class carries on are also put on for the students' app1'ov:1l. l'ndcr Nlrs. lillIl1Dlll2ll1iS direction we feel that tl1e speech classes will continue to develop lvettcr pnlmlic S15l'Zllil'l'S Zlllfl more intelligent conversatioilalists. JOURNALISM Mr. Swanson's journalism class wrote news stories, features stories, editorials, featurettes and even put on two editorial campaigns this year. The class of seven learned about almost every phase of journalism this year. Besides studying and writing, the class took a trip through the Review Atlas. They also did a great deal in putting the Clipper together and distributing it on Fridays. Thanks go to Mr. Ronald Swanson for giving us such an interesting class. .26-

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F' is COOKING Under the instruction of Mrs. Courtney, two cooking classes are held each day. During this year a cooking course has been offered to the boys for a semester, differing from the one-year course offered to the girls. The foods course is set up to study the proper diets, composition of food, economical methods of buying and, of course, the preparation of foods. SEXVING Nearing the end of our tour of Monmouth High, we notice a door on which is tacked this sign, Please knock before entering . XVhat can this room be? lt says room 206. NVe knock loudly on the door, and the teacher, Miss Swan- son, answers the door. She invites us in, while our eyes rove about the room. It is the sewing room! There are girls sitting around the various tables or sewing machines working away on a blouse, dress, skirt, or some other article of apparel. Miss Swanson explains to us that there are four sewing classes, one advanced class and three beginner's classes, and one homemaking class which she teaches. It seems that the homemaking course is a new one started in September, 1949, giving the girls a general knowledge of cooking and sewing. The gills studied sewing last semes- ter and now are studying foods. It's working very successfully. As we start to leave, there is just one thing we want to know--A-why must we knock before entering?

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llIlQl.'S GYM Uh! my aching back! l hope we never have any more of those ole' exercises, l can hardly niovef' Those are typical words that can be heard by the girls in their gym classes. But who thinks up these wonderful exercises and the games the girls play? None other than Mrs. Enid Kilgore, the physical education teacher, who teaches the girls how to play baseball when it's warm: and then in the winter, the girls try' their hand at volleyball and basketball. Of course everybody can hardly wait until the time to learn tumbling. This is the time the girls about break their necks to do the right thing. Also, this year they tried a lot of relays that were fun, but oh! how tiring. So with all the aches and groans everybody came through swell. and everybody really enjoyed it. BOYS GYM A line place for boys to play different sports and to get some line exercise is the boys gym classes. These classes are held five times a day and a half credit is given for each semester. The morning classes were taught by Mr. Larson be fore he left and the afternoon classes by Mr. Talkin. After Mr. Larson left, Tony Castanogli taught the morning classes. Almost all the boys liked the gym classes because a good time was had by all.