Pratt High School - Mirror Yearbook (Pratt, KS)

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Our athletic program is useful not only in develop- ,-! ing bodies physically and mentally, but participation in sports teaches leadership, responsibility, and team- work, a knowledge of which leads to a richer and more successful life. As people and schools of other towns look upon our athletic pro- gram as being symbolic of the type of school we have, we are happy that ours is one of which to be proud. Few people realize how much time a boy who par- LeRoy Uhler, Bill Scofield, Lee Shepard, and Jack Wallace ticipates in sports devotes to them. For instance, a football player may spend fifteen to twenty hours per week practicing and actual game time. There are qualifications to be met before a boy can participate in sports, such as satisfactory grades in at least three -fourths of his school work. The season for the first sport of the year, football, runs from the first of September until Thanksgiving. Nine games were scheduled this year with other members of the West Central Kansas League. To win a football letter, a boy must play at least sixteen quarters or be a senior who has played three years. The football coach is Jack P. Wallace and assistant coach is LeRoy Uhler. The basketball coach is Bill Scofield. Basketball season runs from November to March, with sixteen regular games being played. District and regional tournaments are also participated ln. To win a basketball letter, a boy must have acceptable grades and the recommendation of the coach. The Spring sports are track, golf and tennis. L, O, Dickerson is track coach, Everett Brown, golf coach, and Walter Blake coaches tennis. Miss Shirley Smith coaches girl's tennis. Those participating in these sports have matches and relays with other schools, and have to meet definite qualifications to win a letter. The junior high athletic program is similar to senior high's, although fewer games are played. Junior high track and football coach is Lee Shepard and basketball coach is Walter Blake. Cultuned Advantages Gbbeu an Abundant School Life Shirley Smith and Edward Wade Directing the physical education program of our school is the job of Miss Shirley Smith and Edward Wade. As one year su- 1 of physical education is required for graduation, every student comes in contact with this department. Miss Smith teaches seventh, eighth and ninth grade girl's physical education. Such sports as soccer, speedball, softball, basketball, volleyball, recreational sports such as table tennis and shuffleboard, and folk, square, and social dancing are taught. An emphasis is placed on health and posture. Mr. Wade is director of boy's physical education, and is also director of the intramural pro- gram, in which seventh and eighth graders schedule football and basketball games and track meets among themselves. Football, track, volleyball, basketball, and minor sports are taught. Besides better muscle co-ordination and healthier bodies, other important things gained from physical education are sportsmanship and learning to get along with others. It is here that Pratt High's future track, basketball, and football teams are developed,

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Our school boasts a well-rounded math- ematics department, which offers five math courses. These courses range from a general one, useful in everyday living, to more difficult ones for those who plan to major in a scientific field. V.K, Coffman teaches general math, which is a review of arithmetic with a brief introduction to algebra and geometry. Mr. Coffman and Walter Blake both teach algebra, an important course basic for those who intend to study higher mathematics. Miss Helen Forbes and Mrs. Keith Fish are the plane geometry teachers. In this class, students learn to use established premises to develop new proof. Geometry is useful not only as a mathematical course, but it also teaches you to think logically. Dwight B. Hardy teaches the more advanced math courses, advanced algebra and solid geometry. Advanced algebra continues the study of first year algebra, and solid geometry is the geometry including areas and volumes of three dimen- sional solids. Helen Forbes, Walter Blake, Dwight Hardy, and V. K. Coffman .Jn a Diveuae and 'Pnactical cu'lfliCulum Preparing our secretaries and businessmen of tomorrow are our commerce teachers, Miss Edith McMullen, Tom Anderson, and LeRoy Uhler. Miss McMullen teaches shorthand, in which the students learn to take dictation by writing symbols in place of words. Mr. Anderson teaches bookkeeping, business law, where a general knowledge of law in connection with business is gained, and salesmanship, in which convincing sales talks are given about everything from toothbrushes to airplanes. Mr. Uhler teaches typing 1 and ll, this being the first year typing 11 has been offered. Tom Anderson and Edith McMullen Our industrial arts de- partment is expanding and Merle Mitchell, Keith Fish, B. F, Griffith CICVCIOPIHS- fakmg full , advantage of the new Pedlgo Useful Arts Building, Keith Fish teaches vocational ag- riculture, which includes the study of crops, livestock farm mechanics, and man- agement. Merle Mitchell teaches sheet metal, elec- tricity, and motor mechanics which includes the theory and repair of automobiles. Advanced woodwork, in which each boy selects one big project for the year, drawing, and ninth grade woodwork and drawin are taught by B. F. Griffisi. Driver Education is taught by Lee H. Shepard. After satisfactory completion of this course, students are issued a State Drivers License,

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Providing a good background for extensive training in high school English is the job of our junior high English teachers. Mrs. Opal In this class they attempt to improve their oral and written communication and empha- size learning to use the library efficiently. Their literature, which deals chiefly with g early teenagers and their problems, helps s,, seventh graders to better adjust themselves to their surroundings. Miss DeLoryse Hough and Miss Lois Hogue teach seventh grade reading classes, where an improvement in reading habits is made through increased speed, comprehension, and vocabulary, Miss Hough and Mrs. Christine Lunt are the eighth grade English teachers. In the eighth grade, poetry, short stories, paragraph writing, grammar, punctuation, outlining spelling and speeches are studied in detail. Mrs. Lunt is also the psychology and debate teacher, and Miss Hough teaches Spanish. JA his Christine Lunt, Marie Coulter, and Opal Hemphill 144 ouft 'Jacultq Pftomotea ow: Ambitious and Skilla Giving junior high students a solid background for their future high school courses are the junior high teachers at Liberty. R. W. Bloxom, who also teaches geography, and Mrs. Opal Hemphill teach boy 's and girl's health classes. Along mathematical lines, Miss Helen Forbes is the seventh grade math teacher, while V.K, Coffman and Walter Blake both teach eighth grade math. Help- ing junior high students to form an appreciation of fine arts, and developing the high school bands, choruses and orchestras of the future are Miss Esther Workman, teaching Art 8, Joe Giewartowski, director of seventh and eighth grade choruses and junior high orchestra, and Norman Radke, the junior high band leader. Jumping from fine arts to applied arts, we find Juanelle Hansard teaching foods and clothing to our future homemakers, and Lee Shephard teaching elementary crafts. Fred Lighter teacher eighth grade science, and Jack Wallace and Miss lone Morford both teach Kansas and American history, Margery Wellwood teaches a special class, a course in which emphasis is placed upon confidence in approaching work and self development to each students level of capacity. Margery Wellwood, DeLoryse Hough, and Mrs. Keith Fish. Hemphill is the seventh grade English teacher.