Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Departments Foreign Language jUr.1.x S11.x1f1a11, 1111111 A11 2111111111115 chats with Z1 IUC1111JET of the 193-1 class. 1111111611 1 went to school 2111o11t fo1'ty-1-ight years ago. we were taught 1.Zlf1l1, Greek, 211111 GCTl113l1.1' Greek was 11r11ppe11 1113111 our SC116K1l116' 111 1910, 11ut we offer eight semesters of Latin now. Do you sti11 S1l1C1y the a11ri11ge11 acvonnt of C211-sa1 s G2111ie XYars, C'ice1'o's 1,ife, Yirgi1's Amzvid, 211111 poetry ? Yes, we 11o.'1 'fF1'eneh was i11t1'1111111'e11 here 111 19125 is the course 111 existence yet ? Yes, we are sti11 taught French, 211111 we offer six semesters of it. 1Ye enjoy t11e st1111y of ,S11IIl.N' Fauzillv, Lv T1i1'111' 1111 Petit IJ1Cl'I'i', H211evy's Ifablrf C0ll.Yf1lllf1lI 211111 Dninas Vingt 1-1115 x1f11'Z'.v. The latter two semesters are 11ev11te11 to Car1121112111's f'IIte1'1111t0 Fr1'111'l1 R1'1'1'1'2u G1'1111z11z111' 211111 to t11e study of such plays as L'2AI1zgI11is Tv! CIHVOII L0 Parlv, 111110. dc 111 S1'gI1E1'1' 211111 L11 Perle Noirvf' How 11110111 Q1Cl'IT1Zll1? It was 11ro1111e11 when t11e L'nite11 States e11tere11 t11e 1V11r111 XVar. 111 res11n1e11 t11e study of Gerinan in 1927, 211111 Zlt present we offer four semesters of it. The stories Das Pvtvrlc 'ZVOII Xii1'11Z11'1'g. I.,-'1I'I'tII?li11f!l 211111 I11z1111'11.1'1'1', 2l11C1 t11e elassics GL'I'1JZ1'1.YlI11ZLYFII, 211111 P010 P0pp1'11spZiI1'r are st1111ie11. The latest langtiage, Spanish, was i11tro- 11111'e11 111 1916. Yes, 211111 it has heeome quite 11op11121r with the S1l1K1Cl1tS,Z1l1C1 six semesters of it are offered. The stories EI Pajtlro l'!C'I'dP, EI Cfzpifafi I'l'lIt'll0 21re 1'e2111, as well as t11e play Cmzfigo Fan C'1 z'111I1z. 1111111211 1111 you consider t11e 1113.111 objec- tives of t11e foreign language course P UXVQ stress t11e history of t11e foreign peo- ple, the 11n11w1e11ge of them, t11e ability to read the language st1111ie11, 211111 the 1ite1'at111'e. 1 1'11111gs you have to111 111e 1'o111'er11i11g yflllf foreigii language 11ep21rtn1ent 1'1111v1nCe n1e that it is very interesting 111 1'o11111ariso11 to what was offered 11s forty-eight years agof' IDENTIFICATION 1Y2111211'e Smith is 1111111111111 11111 21 11121ce of interest on his 1112111 of Gernlany. I 1':l1N1fll'11 .1211111-s, Jane S1111ttsw111111, 211111 .X11t111111y Miletello, 111 Spztilish 11ress, instruct 21 131355, ,X guillotine A11is111v:1y is 141:-ing s11-ow11 to the Fre111:11 stu- 11e11ts 1151 1'11yl11s 111-11s, 1'r2111k Slsti, Jayne Joslin, 211111 ,l:11111-s I,lg1lfCZlI1. 'l'e11 1':1iS1!'L'JI-ll, Stetler Qnist. 1i11g211' Dieken. 111111 51471111 xIll111 21re 11'11rk111g o11 some 111061815 for their Latin class. fflhllf' l2111'11r,1'-111110

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Departments English lllliLl.IE jon Head lt has been almost fifty years since I went to school, and you are still treading the same old halls. 'iYes. the school hasn't changed much, but the courses are probably somewhat different. Everyone is required to take two years of English now, regardless of the course he is following, and seven elective courses are of- tered. ln the freshman English we took a com- position course, and rhetoric the next year. There was also an oral reading course required for the hrst two years. XVe have our composition courses the First semester of the sophomore and junior years and literature courses in the second se- mesterf' Our literature courses came in the junior and senior years and included study of Shake- speare and the classics. YVe cover Shakespeare in our English lit- erature courses, which are offered in the senior year. Then, of course, we have those courses which are not required, such as journalism, debate, creative writing, world literature, and college preparatory English. Any of the first three may be substituted for the regular com- position courses. lVe had nothing of that sort at all. De- bate was not begun until some years atter l was graduated, l905, I believef, lt was not until l92-l that the journalism course was added. The same year classes were begun in creative writing. 'fVVhat other courses does your English department include l'There are the dramatic art courses and the speech classes. The speech course was begun in 1908 and fourteen years later another course was added, the study oi the Bible as lit- eratnref' 'iAnd these are not required of the stu- dents ?'l UNO, they are all elective courses. It is very advantageous to a student to take these courses, for they further his knowledge of the subject along the line which appeals most to himf' PU IDENTIFICATION Sonja Sandeen, Dora Crouk, and Lillian Seidler were named as winners for the hook review contests. Charles Friberg, Phyllis Noreiko, Marguerite Peterson, Ronald Spongberg. Marshall Linder, and Ruth Paulson, in- structed the home rooms in parliamentary law. A group of A. B. L. girls presented an English period style show for the club. The members of thc Dramatic Art ll class are shown putting make-up on each other. page fwcvzly-eiglzi

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Departments Social Science Klmtv Ilkoxvx, Head A student converses with a Rockford high school alumnus. I low long ago did you say it was that you were graduated from Rockford high school 7' l.et me see, almout Iifty years. I think. Ilistory was my favorite sulmject. In my freshman year I had the choice ot ancient or Iinglish history. Then the next year there was a general history course. 'I'his cout its name implies, covered ancient. nl and modern historv, more time. hoxvex ing spent on the latterf' XYe have early Iiuropean history. is a one year course, and which tal-:1 period of history from the Stone Age period of Ahsolutism. 'I'hen we have year course in modern history which with the ahsolute rulers oI Iiurope, and up to the present time. 'se. as cdieval. 'er, lat which 's in a to the a one I regi u s comes 'lklvhat other historv courses do they offer in high school now? at ' ' ' lhere is a tairly new course callec history which was brought into the dep I world ll.l'II1lClll in IQZJ. It is a survey ot Ituropean history up to the present timeg then, there is United States history which is required for graduaf tion. XYe had a course given in our junior year, when I was in high school. which con- sisted of twenty weeks of civil government. . 5 ten weeks ot politics, and ten weeks o I polite ical economy. Ilont you have courses such as these now ? 'AYes, we have three one-semester c UUTSCS. ti-overnment gives a detailed study of the various types of government. The Iflcr course emphasizes and Sociology, the tions. The social understanding of known principles life more successfully and awakening student interests, ideals, and habits of modern business pi third. deals with soci studies aim to give a hetter our times hy teachi of how to live the ing so that he will use his place in the for the good of all. IDENTIFICATION mnomics 'ol1lems, al rela- ng the .group in the think- group Mr. I.lH1IlIlllliS iXmerican floverninent class is shown convened as the Ilouse of Repra-selltzltives. Dora Cohn, Kenneth Nelson, Betty Ilillwerg, Markeson 'l I ' on Ind lliluin '1 n Xllflllllll. Blake herlwer, Ilelwin Larls , : 2 necken took part in the history asseinllly. . 5,, The following lieonoinies students are discussing the inoney prolmleinsz Richard XX edel. Victor IR-ters Y on. l ,ilw1n Sonnecken. Jeanette Anderson, XY:1l.:1ce Halstead, :1ndSt:1nf ley liuclnnann, Members ol' Miss XN'hitin 's l'. S, llistorv I class '1r H . shown looking over colonial in-nspapers maile hy memluers, fwnfv th liffj