Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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% THE ROUND-UP Miss Edith E. Hoag Graduated from Manson Iowa High School 1912; Student Drake University. I)es Moines. Iowa; Graduated from Mt Morris College. ML Morris, Illinois, 13. A. Degree 191G; Special work Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, Iowa, 1917; Principal of High School and Head Department of Commerce, Osceola, Nebraska, 1917-19. Assistant Professor. Department of Commerce, k ort Hays Kansas Normal School, Hays, Kansas. 1919-20. Instructor Business College, Summer of 19 20; Instructor Commerce, Rawlins High School, 19 20-21. Department of Commerce The Department of Commerce in 1 890, consisted of two periods per week of shorthand and typewriting. What is it today? We now have eleven typewriters al» of which are in use almost every hour in the day. A student enrolling in typewriting is required to devote two periods per day to the work. Gregg Shorthand is studied not only from a credit, but from a business stand point. The aim of the Department is to fit the student to earn his livelihood without any further business training. Being handicapped by the lack of room—together with the lack of an Assistant, only one year of Bookkeeping is offered. At present a Burroughs Calculator is placed in our Department, but only “on trial.” This is indeed an asset as it familiarizes the student with the machine that is being used in so many offices today. We hope to have two machines added to our equipment next year. The old theory that high school students and teachers are poor business men and women is going to be refuted at the Rawlins High School. The Department of Commerce does not believe the task will be difficult. A knowledge of good business methods will help the teacher and be of greater service to the community and at the same time will be a force for a better salary.

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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.

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THE ROUND UP Miss Christine Frandsen Attended Rawlins High School 1910-1914; Attended University of Wyoming, 1914-1918; Instructor in Home Economics in Rawlins Schools since 1918. Home Economics Department Home Economics has eventually found its place in the education of our school girls and the school is unusual indeed that does not offer some instruction along this line today. The field of Home Economics work is especially extensive in colleges and in large High Schools many courses are offered in this work but in our school it is a special or elective subject and largely consists of instruction in cooking and sewing. A two years’ course is offered, given under the following classes of one semester each: Poods, Elementary Sewing and Costume Designing, Dietetics and Invalid Cookery, Dressmaking and Textiles. After taking these courses as part of a liberal education a girl is going to be better able to judge and select materials, to dress more becomingly and to know what kind of food her body needs to insure good health. It matters little what type of work a girl may take up for a few years of her life because there are very few indeed who will not, sooner or later, have used for all they have learned in domestic science classes. Since we hold the view that High School only marks the beginning of knowledge, that it is only a stepping stone in our climb for greater things in life than earning, then surely Home Economics has its function in the education of every High School girl.