Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

Page 18 text:

f 4 I ENGLISH Miss Ahlstrom Miss Batty, Miss Linnard ' lviiss Zeman Mrs. Howed Miss Williams ilyliss fSiljan i 'BMiss Bodden f rm ,lf J l ENGLISH Mrs. Herzog Miss Turrell Miss Gross Miss Thornberry Mrs. Stevens Mrs. Smith Miss Hannan The teaching profession, too, has undergone many changes from the days when each teacher numbered among his abilities that of wielding the birch rod and being able to 'lick the biggest boy in the class. Since the establishment of the first normal school for teachers' training by Horace Mann, the requirements of the teaching profession have become more and more inclusive until today it is necessary for each teacher to be a psychologist as well as a specialist in the subjects he is teachf ing. The result of this extensive progress is exemplified in our own Riverside High School. Eleven departments of education are maintained, English, Commercial, History, Foreign Lan' guages, Latin, Mathematics, Art, Music, Science, Manual Arts, and Physical Education. The Hrst year of the English Course is devoted to fundamentals of grammar and composition, T-welfuc

Page 17 text:

COMMERCIAL Mr. Barr Mrs. Bruner Mr. Aplin Mr, Friclier Miss Anderson Mr. Weidman Miss Lowry COMMERCIAL Miss Helmer Miss Noltner Mr. May Mr. Carlson Miss Hammel Mr. Baker Miss Snow Miss Pribnow modern history, geometry, logic, plane trigonometry, navigation, and surveying. The third class also continued some former subjects but added philosophy, astronomy, and United States history. In 1834, after a violent contest in Pennsylvania was won by those who advocated free schools, grad' ual adoption of them followed throughout the states. In the early nineties, two important changes were made in the schools: the curriculum was revised through careful study of the values of the sub' jects offered, determined not by their disciplinary effects but by their social signiiicanceg some of the high school subjects were extended downward to result in better articulation between elemenf tary and secondary units of organization. Since that time constant changes have been taking place toward the ultimate goal of developing the best talents of every child. j E lefven

Page 19 text:

MATHEMATICS Miss Crews Miss Leonard Miss Howe Mrs. Coons Miss Bixby Miss Henry INDUSTRIAL ARTS Mr. Raynes Mr. Bratland Mr. Martins Miss O'Neil Mr. Wilde Mrs. Shogren Miss Skinner i L and thus, properly equipped, the student is introduced to the field of literature, poetry, and drama. As seniors the students are enabled to apply this knowledge in our speech course which includes many types of expression: plays, poetry, drama, extemporaneous speaking, debating, and the study of parliamentary law. The Commercial Course equips students with the fundamentals of a business knowledge as an aid to the student who expects to earn his own living after leaving high school to work his way through college, it includes commercial arithmetic, business forms, commercial geogf raphy, bookkeeping, shorthand, typing, commercial law, salesmanship and advertising and off flce practice. Throughout the History Course, ancient, medieval, modern, American history are covf ered, and the last year is spent on the present and looking into the future, studying the problems Thirteen