Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Miss Mary Weld, Miss Anna Hyland, Miss Ruth Hollem, B. A., Miss Maxine Smith, B. A., Miss Bernadette Robertson, A. 5., Mr. Edgar Van Barriger, Miss Naomi Eckberg, A B., Mr. Fred Villemure, B. S. l Miss Lillian Reitsch, B. E., Miss Alice Nolan, Miss Evelyn Mundhenke, A, B. DEPARTMENTS OF MATHEMATICS AND COMMERCE At Roosevelt all boys and girls in the seventh and eighth grades are required to take mathe- matics; in ninth grade it is optional, and algebra is offered. Mathematics at Roosevelt treats of social, civic, and economic values, all three found in our everyday life. Pupils are led to think about the quantitative aspects of life in such terms as the buying and selling in the mathe- matics of the consumer; of budgets, accounts, bills, installment payments, insurance, taxes, sav- ing and investing in the mathematics of the home; and of the formula, the graph, and the equation in the mathematics of industry. In this easy, matter-of-fact fashion, pupils develop a truer appreciation of the utility of numbers and learn the importance of such in social and oc- cupational problems; they also learn the importance of figuring problems with ease and check- ing them. 11 The commercial department offers two courses-to eighth-grade pupils, Busi- ness practice I and II; and to ninth-grade pupils, Typewriting I and II. Business practice aims to give pupils information about the world of business and the practices that help those en- gaged in business pursuits; it provides interesting exploration through participation in the common business activities such as buying and selling, saving and investing money, means of communication, travel, insurance, banking, handling the mail, filing, shipping goods by freight, express, or parcel post; it provides constructive guidance for those interested in a business career; and it lays a foundation for additional study of business. Typewriting stu- dents discover how to care for a machine, how to use it to best advantage, and how to type accurately with a reasonable degree of speed. How to center copy on a page, how to outline material, how to write short business and personal letters are projects for the firlst-semester classes; haw to address envelopes, how to write all styles of business letters, how to tabulate material in two, three, or four columns, how to write two-page letters, telegrams, and legal doc- uments are interesting problems for the second-semester typing pupils.

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US A seventh-grade class busy with book reports for Miss Morse, English teacher in room 217. Latin the second hour made bright by sunshine and the pleasant smile of Miss Blackburn in room 201. Three characters portraying cm episode in Book Revue, a part of Book Week activities celebraied annually by teachers and pupils of the English classes.

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31 mg: m Algebra problems for a ninth-grade group under the guidance of Mr. Van- Barriger in room 302 11 Speed tests cxre part of interesting instruction in this ninth-grade typing class room 211 Tl Business procedures, forms, and the like taught by Miss Mundhenke in this business practice class.