Ottawa Township High School - Senior Yearbook (Ottawa, IL)

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Hlstory Department FIVQ teachers kept the twenty three hlstory department classes busv every day These five meet ew ery OHS student before graduatlon MISS Anlta Baldw1n taught CIVICS and Umted States hlstory Project papers of 1500 words were handed 1n to MISS Edna Fellhauer by all her classes th1s year She taught CIWICS U S hlstory and economlcs 1603 to 1947 and every b1t of It ln modern hlstory outhnes' Miss Marguer1te Hempen called for that as her two groups learned the hlstory of every contlnent Commerclal law standards and labels msurance bank mg and credlt flnanclng and purchasmg a home were all t0p1CS for her w1th a sly smlle MISS Hempen s Our L1fe Today classes followed an orlen tat1on course the first semester and second term they concentrated on CIVICS Umted States government and papers on careers Mr Merle Burke and MISS Mary Allce Youmans taught world hlstory The course followed a chronologlcal pattern the nrst semester and a toplcal plan the second semester Mlss Youman s three classes drew a SCTIQS of maps on the blackboards and colored 1n terrltorles as they were studled 11 . vu T, - . . , . s . , u .. . . . , K K, . , - 7 7 consumer education class. Nearly every day she'd hand out a new booklet . . . , . . . A y 7 7 1 ' . , . 1 .

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English Department MacRae Shannon returned to O High this year after a vacation in the Navy and assumed the head post in the English department While he was gone the feminine contingent carried on The memb rs of 'Wi Ben Rott 1 s two Types cl s e made a twenty mln ute radio script one personifying books and the other dramatizlng a scene from the Tale of Tvso Cities Miss Isabella Sandels senior students made 1I1dlX1dll3l recordings I 1 March seniors entered essay contests And when May came it was hard for Miss Sanders seniors to struggle through Creative Wfltlllg took an important place in Miss Gertrude Pfell s classes Miss Marguerite Laugman emphasized modern American poetry And Miss Glo Wllson alvs ays insisted there Wasn t enough time in her classes to get all their work done With only one semester the speech class had a really packed agenda Mrs June Rickey taught make up extempore interpretixe leading public discussion and near the end of the year class members presented several one act plays Miss Virginia H6ld1Hg'6FS frosh classes did some special vwork on Treasure Island and when the time came they made a window display in one of the downtown shops And who can doubt vxhat Miss Phyllis Doty s Journalism classes did? The proof of their work was in the Buc 10 I - ' ' as ' rs - , . . . L , i . 2 i 's. ee f . s - ' - ca 1 , ' ' sa ' X , 3 ' . . 7. . l 1 . I . . , . Burke's speech on conciliation with the American colonies, but they did it. . . V . . , . . A . , . y i . - . . 7 1 . . ' Y 7 Y . .. , . . CS 1A 79 ' 7' ' u , I 7 . I . , . . . .

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Language and Art Three teachers operate the forelgn language department ln whlch Latm German French and Spanlsh are taught The teachels are Mlss Esther VV111Ck MISS Marv Jane Mess and Mlss V1Fg1H1H Heldlnger Seven SGHIOFS braxed fou1th yea1 Latln where Mlss wylllck gulded them through s1x books of Vlfgll creatlve Latln wr1t1ng and poems by H01 ace M1ss W1F1Ck s second X ea1 classes and Mlss Heldmgel s thl ee first year groups studled Roman background hlstory word dern atnes and fundamentals F1rst year German students learned xocabularles and 1d10mS and gram mar then read and wrote under Mlss WlFlCk s tutelage The second year boys and glrls read the nox elette Immensee and Schlller s play W1ll1am Te Just about any fifth hour one could find Mlss Mess patlently explalnlng for the nth t1me verbs demonstratue pronouns etc to her French II glrls and boy The class agenda paralleled the Spamsh II progz am dlctatlon outs1de readmg llstenlng to recordmgs and once a week each student was requlred to g1V9 a short talk ln h1s language In two first vear Spanlsh classes Mlss Mess taught fundamentals In addltlon to these fixe classes a few students mterested IH thlrd vear Spanlsh attended a class two or three afternoons a week Thlrty students were enrolled for each art class last fall Under Mrs Rlva Hoff s guldance and cr1t1c1sm they studled the hlstory of art and fol lowed the usual course plus a llttle soap carvmg Accordlng to thelr ln structor the classes dld mo1e creatne lllustratlon and palntlng thls year than before llql 4 . . Y . . y x , , I . I 4 I Y . . . . . , I V , I . K ' 1 . . . . . . . y I I , , I 'V . ' . Q ,Y N 1 V v 1 v . w ' I dyw I ' W Q AI L k 'L IL, I n 5 ' ' Y . . . V . Y K v ' J 'Q I. - 7 . . . - I I I I I Y . W . . , - , II I . I ' , as , 19 ' s , K4 ' ' I I I I t , ll . . 7 . . I I II , , . . 7 . 1 v ' 'a 'V ' . II, I A 1 , a 1 ' I n A 'U . . . Y I. A I -V bI Y A s a I , . . . . . . A L A ' , A A a ' , I I 1 I Q. di . I I 5 ' I ,I '1 It 'E . fi I' Q ,Na ' ff , X, .X . ' V