Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Y' N .C2llFtZ6lF. DEL? MISS GRACE BRANTINGHAM HHN you visit the High School do not fail to go to the art studio on the third Hoor of the new building. The stairs leading up to the rooms are hung on either side with charcoal drawings and upon entering the room one is attracted by its artistic appearance. The main studio is quite large, and is provided with tables and chairs used in the drawing work. The walls of the studio are covered with drawings of many kinds, charcoal, water color, pencil and ink. Adjoining the main studio on the east is another smaller room, which contains the various models and objects used in the art work. The cases in this room are lilled with books, tracings, designs and drawings. Drawing is taught for two reasons, first to enable one to obtain the fundamental principles of drawing, and thus be- come more efficientg second, to increase a person's power of observation, During the first semester of the First year. pe11ciI work is taken up, and the second semester is given over to charcoal work. The second year is devoted chietly to charcoal, col- ored chalks and designs. The second year is possibly more interesting than the first. ln the Spring and Autumn, a great deal of time is given to nature work, such as drawing of leaves, and flowers of various kinds. Friday of each week is given over to life sketches, an interesting as well as helpful feature of drawing. Art work is one of the most interesting as well as rehning studies in the High School, and it is hoped many more students will avail themselves of the opportunity placed before them in the line of art work in Rockford High School. li. C., '11, Twenty-eight E

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UU U az':x:'.'::.::mLr'z'f.i r: .:.11'..L:.2.L :5:7L.:,.' ..'.. .- ..: . A A' :u.g::a.1axa mi' ll ll llllll E RADUALLY, more and more of the girls are taking up some branch of the Domestic Arts now offered in our school. This course comprises Home Economics, Cooking and Sewing. Cooking is probably the most important partnof this de- partment. As foundation for this, Home Economics must be taken. In this study, the basis for the whole course is laid. The testing of materials for their heating. nutritive and tissue building properties and experiments with com- binations and mixtures form an important part of the work. The concoction of varied and delicious dishes is the most interesting part of cooking, and also the most advanced for the plainer food must be made first. This year the furnishing and serving at the Gym. dances has made the work unusually interesting. The breakfasts, luncheons and dinners served by the classes to each other and to the faculty have given the girls a useful knowledge of setting the table for the various meals and serving as well as cooking them. The sewing classes are a very beneficial part of the Do- mestic Arts department. Here the girls are taught to draft their own patterns, which insures originality in dress. Each girl makes an entire outfit for herself during the year. The teachers of this department are very competent. Miss Janet Cation is the head, with the Misses lflelah John- son and Helen Reber as her assistants. Miss Cation is a graduate of Bradley Institute and has taught in the Chicago schools. Miss Johnson graduated from the D. S. depart- ment of Rockford College. Miss Reber is receiving her training under Miss Cation. Twenty-seven 0

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Miss GIJRTRUDE 1oNE HILL Physical Training HE Physical Training department of our school is a source of pride to every pupil. There all the wonders of strengthening and developing the muscles go on every hour of the day, for nearly four hundred of the high school girls take gym . It is the custom to give an exhibition every year, the proceeds of which go toward equipping the gymnasium with all the necessary apparatus. When Miss Hill began her work, she was handicapped by lack of equipment. Now there are many kinds of paraphernalia to work with, al- though more is still needed. The sum realized from the ex- hibition of December, 1910, was expended for the new Swedish ladder, barbells and balancing beams. Next year, the girls hope to add more to the equipment. A new feature has entered into the work in the Physical Culture department: the development of the social side of High School life. In order that the pupils may become bet- ter acquainted with each other and with the faculty, several enjoyable parties have been given in the gymnasium. The classes were separated into groups and each girl was privi- leged to invite a boy to her respective party. There was a mixed program of dancing, music and reading. Part of the music was supplied by the faculty orchestra, while the pupils themselves furnished the rest. The gymnasium was deco- rated with pennants and on Saint Patrick's day entirely in green. It is hoped that these parties will continue to be the source of pleasure in the future that they have been in the past. H. B. Twenty-nine UNJKUIUM.