Montpelier High School - Spartan Yearbook (Montpelier, IN)

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Need for music increases under stress of this world crisis: music to console, entertain, arouse patriotic fervor, and encourage Mankind's consecration to a better life. This our Music Department is striving to do through instrumental and vocal groups, contributing to individuals through participation, to group through appreciation, and to the community through varied activities. Morale of the world depends mightily upon music. We accept the challengel leanette Groff Art students are in urgent demand in our war program. Art appreciation strengthens morale. Art gives students an opportunity to express patri- otic excitement constructively, helps them to express their ideas more forcefully, and assists them in doing better many things they must do. Fields in which the art department is con- tributing or will furnish a background for the future are : diagrams and illustrations, to teach military tactics to soldiers and air raid and first aid procedure to civilians, camouflage: decor- ations for soldiers' recreation centers: color schemes which increase production, and de- crease fatigue in factories, posters to stimulate enlistments, to increase the sale of defense stamps and bonds, to remind a nation at war to do or not to do many things, cartoons which simplify the dramatize important issues: map making, insignia: and photography. Kathleen Anderson History is being made so rapidly today that our classes would have enough material to keep them going if we used only the radio, newspaper, and current magazines. These events have all come about as a result of events which happened in the past. Student have little say in shaping our war aims or in proposing methods for their accomplishment. We hope that by studying the problems which our democracy has faced and is now facing, our students will be better able to solve the problemsfof the world of tomorrow. Harold M. Dick Some contributions the Home Economics Department has made to the war effort are as follows: It has taught the preservation of food and the conservation of food and clothing. It has taught new principles about the value of food to health, the correct attitudes toward ra- tioning, and units of recreation for the family. It has taught first aid and home nursing to girls at school and to adults in evening classes. It has salvaged tin and has managed hot lunches for better nutrition. Martha Shadday The English Department aims to train students in reading, writing, speaking, and listen- ing. Good reading is a morale builder for civilians and service men, driving away the loneliness when reading is the chief form of entertainment. Students are taught to read and interpret directions, an invaluable aid in home, factory, or at the front. Letter writing is taught, for more and better letters aid the morale of the men in service. Correct writing prepares students for secretarial work by training them in correct spelling, punctuation, use of words, and sentence and paragraph construction. Training in listening aids students to grasp the meaning of oral directions more easily and to listen more thoughtfully to newscasts and announcements over the radio. The class in speech is training so that the members may appear before various civic or- ganizations to explain plans for citizen cooperation in the war effort. Lillie Albertson Now that world conflict has again settled upon us and the world is interested in synthetic material, chemistry has come to the front. The constant call for chemists shows there are jobs waiting for those who wish to work. That our country has synthetic rubber for many uses, plastics, antiseptics, dyes, vitamins, and food is due to chemistry. Bonita Collins The library in these times is a very vital institution, the center of war information. Backgrounds of the important war centers, points of battle, economic and political conflicts can be found in your library. Information which is straight and factual is necessary for a true understanding of the world conflict. Your library is the only place where this material is se- lected and offered you for your own benefit-be it maps, illustrations, comparisons, books, or biography. The least the civilian population can do is to understand and to form justifiable opinions. Consult the center of war information-the library. Helen Noffsinger. Vocational agriculture is aiding our present drive for victory by helping supply the food basket of the world with meat, dairy products, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Most vocational students are not only working on farms but are helping to manage them in an effort to pro- duce more food and other vital raw materials such as hemp, tobacco, flax, cotton, wool, lum- ber, hides, and furs. These boys know that to be efficient farmers in this battle of the food front they must keep accurate farm records, feed balanced rations to livestock, maintain sanitary conditions, control soil erosion, follow a good crop rotation, select good breeding ani- mals of cr desirable type, keep machinery and equipment in good repair, maintain soil fer- fContinued on Page 23.7

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Miss Richwine lEvelynl aids the W a r e f f o r t by selling defense stamps, by help- ing ration, and by preparing for dis- tribution a rn o n g school patrons bul- letins on the var- ious war p r o - grams. Miss Morton Mr. Craig Mr. Dick Miss Albertson Mrs. Noffsinger Miss Richwine Miss FACULTY Mr. Wilson Miss Groff Miss Shadday Miss Collins Mr. McBride Nelson Miss Anderson The schools of America have been asked to do their part in winning the war by furnishing young men and women well trained in mind and body. Our school is meeting this chal- lenge in every course. 'l'he industrial arts course has been altered this year to conform to the war program. Stress is laid on reading blue prints, on machine work directly related to industry, and on a study of mass production methods. Students have made model airplanes for government training use in air schools. ln social science more time is given to studying the Ameri- can background and the development of democratic ideals. Each week time is given to studying current events, particu- larly as related to the war effort. Marion Wilson A knowledge of bookkeeping is invaluable in compiling income tax reports and preparing statistics. Shorthand and typewriting help in supplying the governments need for steno- graphers and typists, through the teaching of tabulations, letter writing, and transcription of dictated letters. Business law teaches the protection of the business man's rights in a dem- ocracy. Kate Morton The statement in geometry, The shortest distance between two points on a sphere is the arc of their great circles , takes on new meaning when it is shown that the Aleutian Islands lie on the path of the shortest distance from Tokio to our Pana- ma Canal and that Tokio is 300 miles closer to Minneapolis than it is to Seattle. Students of economic geography readily understand why our farmers are urged to raise crops new for this section, and they become familiar with such places as Cebu and Casa- blanca, which figure so prominently in the news. Latin enables a student to read more understandingly the newspaper using such terms and pre-induction, inflation, and aeronautics. The business world is calling for secretaries with a knowledge of words and sentence structure. A Latin back- ground is invaluable to such people. Mathematics, geography, and Latin, have gone to war , lanice Nelson 7

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