Riverside High School - Mercury Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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

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HISTORY Mr. Hafey Mr. Ashford Mr. Procknow Miss Dresden Mr. Hathaway Miss De Marsh Mrs. McDonough SCIENCE Mr. Pray Mr. Rassmussen Mr. Lewis Mr. Wadleigh Mr. Schneck Miss Cordsen Miss Reynolds l f s ' v nr f rl ' of the citizen, social and political. Th 'gn Language Department enables the student to be' come better acquainted with his own language, grammar, and derivation of words and gives him also a knowledge about the geography, history, literature, and customs of the lands he is study' ing. French, German, and Spanish have been offered, and, now as an answer to many requests, Polish is -being added. The Latin course includes grammar in the first year and continues with Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil in the order mentioned. Mathematics Department offers courses in al' gebra, geometry, advanced algebra, and trigonometry giving thorough training to those students who are to take up this line of work. In the Art Course the students take care of the art work and cartoons for the Mercury monthly and Mercury Annual. Scenery forthe JuniorfSenior Play, decorations for th-e prom, posters for clubs are also contributed by members of this department and Fourlcfn