Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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The entire English department is under the direction of Miss Wenz, who outlines the courses of study for all the departments and, although her schedule is very full, finds time to instruct one senior class in the sub- ject. Four years of English are required for graduation. The freshmen, under Miss Bald- win, Miss Hochstrasser, and Mr. Farmer, concern themselves with stories of adven- ture and correct sentence construction. The sophomores, under Miss Hunter, continue their education by studying stories of achievement and concentrating on matters CHARLES D. WENDHOLT. B.S. Industrial Arts C. J. LITTLE, 8.Ed. Science OTTO R. ARIENS. A.B. Mathematics Physics MARY ANNA PERISHO. B.S. Foods ANNA MARIE GREEN. M.A. Clothing

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14 ZULU Z. WRIGHT Commercial STELLA RISSER Commercial Advanced mathematics is the chief aca- demic concern of Mr. Clapp, who has classes in commercial arithmetic, plane and solid geometry, and advanced algebra. For the first time in several years, a course in public speaking has been added to the curriculum. This course is under the su- pervision of Mr. Farmer. His students spend one semester on general speech training and one on dramatics and play production. Two foreign languages are taught at Paris High, Latin and French. Miss Tate is in charge of instruction in the former. In ad- dition to the regularly taught work of the two years devoted to vocabulary work and sentence construction, there is an advanced class which studies the works of Cicero one year and of Vergil the next. The two years of French are taught by Miss Farrell. MARGARET STEELE. A.B. Scionco FANNIE M. LUCKHAUPT. A.B. DON H. HAMILTON. B.S. Science Agriculture

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16 ELLA M. JACOBS Librarian cal side, of farming. In connection with this course, Mr. Hamilton directs a club, the Future Farmers of America. Since 1934, beginning algebra students have been under the patient ministrations of Mr. Ariens, who also teaches physics, a course for advanced science students. The home economics department has grown more and more popular at Paris High. A knowledge of domestic science is valuable to any one, and Miss Perisho has been a very successful instructor for the foods classes. The instruction of the clothing classes changed hands this year at the end of the first semester when Miss Green was re- placed by Miss Agnes Hendricks. Miss ETHEL B. HOUGHAM. B.S.M.E. Music Supervisor of correct English usage. In their junior year, Miss Dayton leads students through a study of English literature. American literature is a subject reserved for the senior year. Miss Hochstrasser is the instructor for most of the classes in this subject. The training of future secretaries and stenographers rests in the hands of Miss Wright, advanced typing and shorthand instructor. Miss Risser has charge of first year typists and potential bookkeepers. In addition, a preliminary course in junior busi- ness training, taught by Mr. Eveland and Mr. Cottingham, is offered in this course. In the science department Miss Steele has charge of freshmen classes in general science. She is also the instructor for a new related science class for home economics students. Miss Luckhaupt teaches young bi- ologists to understand plant and animal life. Three years of agriculture can be taken at P. H.S. under the direction of Mr. Hamil- ton. His boys, through class and project work, learn the science, as well as the practi-