Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Miss Haley, Mrs. Dougherty, Miss lrons Csupervisorj, Miss Gilfen. Miss Golwitzcr, Mr, Elmquist, Miss Fredriksen. Absent: Miss Gustafson tsupervisorj, Mr. Bornor. Fine Arts Departments Theodore Roosevelt junior High School offers many opportunities for music education in vocal and instrumental groups-glee clubs, chorus groups, operetta club, orchestra, and band. The purpose of all music instruction within the school is to have the student live more richly and successfully through contributing musical experiences such as listening, performing, and creating in the belief that this will mean most to him and to others now and later. Music should help develop a balance of intellect and emotions because it provides a wonderful outlet for those liner emotions which make anyone human: it is a language for emotional expression. Music groups serve the school in various ways during the year. Special con- certs and radio programs have been sponsored by them. Individual enthusiasm and school spirit are built up through music. The way hours of leisure are spent tests each individual as to his qualities of good citizenship. Art study aims to enrich the daily life of every student by helping him to recognize beauty in his surroundings and to understand that fine arrangements of form and color give greater satisfaction and greater usefulness to all forms of man-made things. The seventh-year student studies the influence of art in architecture, painting, sculpture, industrial, and commercial art here in our city, its history, and develop- ment. Understanding is also gained through working with materials such as lin- oleum, blocks, soap, tempera, tiles, crayonex, and plasticine. Eight-and nine-year art is elective and of interest to the student who enjoys art material as we'll as- to the talented student. Clay modelling, pottery, block print- ing, illustration, poster, stage setting, and landscape problems are offered. T 61 ROOSEVELT 1935

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i 1935 VELT SE R00 Miss Herrick, Mr. Ray, Mr. James, Mr. VVise, Miss Olson. Miss Mundhcnke, Miss Otto, Miss Smith, Miss Hanstroni. Q General Science and Commercial Departments General Science is one of the newer subjects in the junior high school course of study. Its content changes from year to year, because the many fields of science change constantly with new discoveries. One of the aims of General Science is to arouse greater interest and stimulate better practice in personal and community hygiene. Besides demonstrations and textbook work, public health workers and practicing physicians often come into the classroom to emphasize the various angles of health science. Another aim is to enable the pupil to evaluate and appreciate the service of scientific experts. Today, as never before in history, people depend upon the specialist-the authority in each field of science. Our junior high school course attempts to point out the outstanding fields of science and the expert in each division. The great and simple inventions and devices are used with no more thought than the machines which are used. An attempt toward appreciation is made through the study of biographies which illustrate how men and women have often sacrificed and suffered with the ultimate result that life is more enjoyable and comfortable. Today the greatest romance and adventure in the world lies in the thrill of scientific discovery. Courses offered in the Commercial Department are Business Practice I and ll, which may be elected by eighth-and ninth-grade pupils, and Typewriting I and ll, which may be elected by ninth-grade pupils. Business Practice aims to give a pupil a simple picture of business life, to teach him such elementary business knowledge as every person can use, and to give a certain amount of vocational training in the branches of business activity which he might enter if it becomes necessary for him to leave school. In typewriting, students learn how to take care of a typewriter and how to write business letters and simple business forms with a certain amount of skill and accuracy.

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ROOSEVELT 1935 U71 Mr. Annis, Mr. Balsley, Mr. Bjorge, Mr. Wiood, Mr. Villemure. Miss Kruvelis, Miss Knott, Mrs. Carleton, Miss Lundvall. Industrial and Household Arts Departments The Industrial Arts department presents courses of such value and interest to boys at Roosevelt that 75 per cent of them take some work in this field. Interest in some phases of the work has so increased that a part-time teacher, Mr. Villemure, came in February to take over the additional classes. The courses in the' department aim to develop in boys hobby and consumer interests, intelligent choice and use of products, and responsibility. A number of courses are offered that boys may try out their individual abilities and interests in a small way and to decide somewhat intelligently what type of work, it any in this field, would be most suitable. Courses up until this work were planned to cover nine weeks' workg now it is eighteen weeks. Que of the newer courses, assigned to all beginning eighth-grade boys, is home mechanics. This includes units in heat- ing, plumbing, home mechanics, and electricity. All teaching units have been reor- ganized to fit into the social scheme of modern education. Courses in Household Arts take care of special interests for the girls in much the same way as those of Industrial Arts do for the' boys. Mrs. Carleton joined the faculty of this department in February as a full-time teacher. Miss Kruvelis was new to the school last September, taking the place of Miss Holmberg, married in the early autumn. In this department this year Miss Knott has rearranged many courses and some equipment to bring about a co-ordination of units in the department and better correlation between work in junior and senior high school courses. In seventh grade, girls in sewing classes make equipment which they will use in 7A cooking classes. In eighth grade, girls are taught the care of the home and chil- dren, and given lessons in color appreciation. In ninth grade, elective courses in foods and clothing are offered. This year the cooking classes entertained the faculty at a Christmas tea, and from time to time have made money for their own and the general school fund by preparing and selling salted peanuts. candy, and cookies. In Household Arts classes at Roosevelt girls learn how to see their own homes in their most ideal condition, to cultivate an appreciation for them, and to receive training for active membership in the home and community.