Montpelier High School - Mirror Yearbook (Montpelier, OH)

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RUTH ROGERS Head of English Department JOSEPHINE LeBRON English NANCY MILLS English MARY NEEL 1 English l L. 'O ,. lj! l CORA VOY ALDRICH ELEANOR ASKEW MARY ELIZABETH BURDETT English English English ENGLISH The English Department of Central High School tries to further the personal growth of its students in understanding of people through the medium of literature, the department seeks to find the interests of the students and to provide experiences in school which will be the best for them. To promote opportunities for development in all the skills and to introduce the boys and girls into the culture of Oklahoma, America, and England, or whatever other foreign culture has made an imprint upon us, the department offers a wide variety of subject matter. There is a reading program which will help give self-confidence in reading and help to give its pupils such training that reading will be a source of satisfaction and profit to them. This program should help to improve the grades of all who are enrolled in it. A class has been organized to give experience in creative writing. For boys who ,do not want to take English, but who really need it, a Shop English and also an Aviation English class have been formed. In these classes the English work is mixed with shop study and aviation study. With such a wide background for development, the English classes offer a truly liberal education. Y, , X4 Developmental reading puts students on their own. HALLIE RAMIREZ ESTHER ROBINSON English English

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Centrals Librarian offers smiling assistance to all Fln at ,1 as on s I HAZEL B. MYERS AGNES MARTINOSKY MORENE HILL rans' Secretary and Registrar Attendance Clerk Clerk Typist . Like the pulsing of a big heart the Central High School office reaches through many arteries to the farthest extremities of the building. A group of student helpers go on duty each hour of the school day to operate the switch board and the sound system, to collect attendance slips from each class room, to check attendance, to run errands, and in general to aid the five secretaries and clerks who are responsible for making the office pulsate . Mrs. Agnes Martinosky, attendance clerk, has the best interest of the students at heart when they are called in to give an account of their absences or tardies. Miss Morene Hill with her nimble fingers types the daily Absentee and Do Not Admit lists, and performs many menial tasks that only a good blonde typist can do. Mrs. Frances Bundy, Secretary to Mr. Bom, is the medium by which the public may or may not reach her busy boss by phone or in person. Mrs. Edith johnson, the registrar, keeps the permanent EDITH L JOHNSON EDYTHE HAAS records and frowns upon recording any grade below C. If you Reglsffaf Financial Secfefafl' aspire to a college education, she will write your transcript. Mrs. Edythe Haas, financial clerk, keeps a strict account of the money that comes and goes, and records it in black or red to be checked by the school auditor. Mrs. Hazel B. Myers, Veterans' Secretary and Registrar, has charge of all the records of the veterans, including making out attendance reports to the veterans administration, keeping all permanent record cards, and keeping the financial records. ,ns The P. B. X. board is the connecting link between Central High School and the public. In yesterdays libraries, the emphasis was on circulation figures, great pride being taken if the year's total exceeded that of the previous school year. Today's librarian moves out into the classroom scene, helping teachers to haul into their rooms assorted stacks of books for this or that unit of work. Tomorrow's libraries will be the center of the instructional program and will house all types of instructional aids. Film strip, a radio program, or a recording will be recommended by the librarian as quickly as she recommends a book to the teacher or pupil. ' The school of the future will be designed with an inviting homelike atmosphere. Easy chairs, table lamps, and inviting reading-nooks are among the new features. This will be something for Central to look forward to in the near future. In the meantime, 311 is a very important place at Central, for it is there that many students learn to consult encyclopedias or dictionaries and to do research work, as well as to check out books for information or for leisure reading. .

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LODA HALL M. V. VAN METER RAYMOND RYDER JESSIE ROYER Head of History Department History History H1St0ry HISTORY The Department of Social Studies, one of the three largest departments in Central, has a varied program for the school year. All courses are designed to help the student understand and cope with the problems of today as well as study events of earlier days which have had such great influences upon present times. The term social studies refers to those subjects that help one become fitted to assume his place as a competent citizen of his community, his state, and his nation. Now, in the light of international relations, there must be a development toward better world relationship: W0rld friendrlaip, world underrtanding, and world ro-operation must begin in the classroom. A study of American History and European History gives one a substantial background for an understanding of current problems. By means of field trips, group discussions, and group projects, this understanding is furthered. Other courses offered are Family Life Education, Psychology, Social Problems, American Government, World Relations, and Bible History. The department fulfills its purpose when it impresses on every student that Demorrary if a Truftf' Y FERN COLLIER History RUTH WALLACE English Round table discussions are held on world problems. RUTH SALLEE BARBARA SCHLABACH DORIS TAYLOR MARTHA TRUAX English English English English