Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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THE ROUND-UP Miss Anna . . Qibney Graduate of the Phillipsburg, New Jersey High School, the New Jersey State Normal. Trenton. Attended Cornell and Syracuse Universities 1900-1903; Ph. B. University of Chicago 190G. 1910-20 Special Summer Sessions. Instructor of Languages at Rawlins High School 1920 21. I anguage Department Adelante or “Forward” has been the motto of the Language department for this year, and in claiming for it such distinction we make no apology. Realizing that international commerce and intercourse is so constantly increasing, our aim has been at other and more practical results than has hitherto been considered necessary. Since the close of the “World War” we see, as never before the need of a broader culture, a more intimate knowledge of the language, thoughts and aspirations of foreign peoples and a clearer concept of our relations and duties to all races. Inasmuch as the true end and aim of all linguistic instruction is to actually speak the modern tongues and converse in them fluently and idiomatically we believe our students are moving in the right direction and are to be congratulated for the progress they have made along these practical and all important lines. In conclusion we wish to say that through the hcar.y co-operation of the School Board and Superintendent, the students of this department have been given a world view of the customs, manners, and ways of living of other nations which has had a broadering influence and which we feel will not only help them to understand and sympathize with their less fortunate nearest neighbors, but will also teach them the true significance of universal brotherhood.

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THE ROUND-UP Miss Bess Sherman Riverton Iowa High School 1914; University of Iowa, 1914-15; University of Nebraska, 1915-18; A. B. Degree; Instructor in Mathematics, Rawlins High School, 1918-21. Mathematics It is not the aim of this department to develop each student into a technical mathematician such as colleges turn out, but rather to acquaint him with the practical side of mathematics. Not less important is the attempt to develop the reasoning power of each student, so that any problem he may encounter in after years, will be met with a clearer understanding, followed by more logical course of reasoning and finally judged in the fairest manner possible. Six courses in mathematics are offered, Algebra I to Freshmen; Plane Geometry to Sophomores; Algebra III and Solid Geometry to Juniors; Trigonometry to Seniors; and Commercial Arithmetic to Commercial Students.

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THE ROUND-UP P. F. Robuck, B. S. Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio, 1911. Student Summer Quarter The University of Chicago, 1919. Eight year’s teaching experience. Instructor in Science Rawlins High School, 1919-'20; 1920-’21. » Science Department The work of the Science Department of Rawlins High School consists of instruction in the following subjects: Physics, Chemistry, Biology, General Science and Physical Geography. The equipment of the laboratory is such that much practical work may be done in all of the classes. Last year a new Barnstead water still was purchased and this is installed so that distilled water may be had for all chemical work, thereby making accurate qualitative chemical determinations possible. The Senior Class of 1920 presented the High School with a fine Balopticon. This machine is equipped for the projection of both slides and opaque subjects and is a valuable addition to the equipment of the school, because .it makes possible the giving of visual instruction in all subjects. The Science class-room is fitted up for the use of the Balopticon and it is hoped that the matter of visual instruction may play its proper part in the training of all of the pupils of the Rawlins schools. It is the aim of the Science Department to give instruction along the practical lines of the subjects that are taught, taking sincere care to place stress upon those principles that are the foundations of Science. The Science Department of Rawlins High School is constantly growing and its one guiding aim is to inculcate as thorough a knowledge of the branches taught as may be consistent with the aim of the High School.