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

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Mathematics Department This school has one of the best mathematics courses in the state. A student can start as a beginner in algebra, taught by Miss Glo Wilson, Miss Georgme Hess Mr John Hoff or Mr Robert Ixrabel From there he can go on to plane geometrx adx anced algebra solid geometrx and trigonome trw These last three subiects ale handled bx the department head Miss Ma' x LeMax Or if the thought of the last four named subiects scares wou xou can take basic math which also lets Mr Ben Park into the math department 13

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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

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Sclence Department If you are of an experlmental nature OHS Off91S several laboratorles Startlng at the bottom freshmen can take general SCISHCQ Wh1Ch IS taught by a nevvcomel thlS year Mr Robelt K1 abel A man who needs no lntroductlon IS Mr Charles Al1kon1s who takes students on leaf gatherlng expedltlons flovx er trlps blrd hlkes blology that IS F01 the JUHIOFQ and senlors there ale chemlstly and phy slcs taught by the senlor class adv1so1 Mr Roy P Bohannon Another 1I'lt9I'6St1l1g sclence course offered to Junlors and sen1ors IS physlography taught by M1 Edward Holt And last but not least IS practlcal sclence under M1ss Mlldred Morgan 14