Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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MR. JAMES W. WELSH M.A., University of Michigan Principal June 5, 1939 To Pupils of Roosevelt Junior High School: San Francisco's Golden Gate International Exposition and New Yorkis World Fair are displaying this year in unique and spectacular ways mankind's progress and achieve- ment in working and living together. This YEARBOOK brings to you through story and picture an accurate account of how you as pupils have worked, played. and lived togetherphere in junior high school. May this record of school life become one of your most treasured possessions. J. W. WELSH, Principal

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Miss Dorothy Vaughn, Miss Angela Joyce, Assistant Principal; Mr. J. W. Welsh, Principal; Miss Frances Gustafson, Miss Eleanor Berg. THE OFFICE AT ROOSEVELT The school office at Roosevelt is the scene of activity throughout the day. In the morning before school, children flock here to get admits, permits, and the like. After school there is the inevitable checking up of the days work to be looked after. Mr. J. W. Welsh, the principal, has charge of the general plan of the work of the building. He is assisted by the supervisors of art and music, by the department heads, and by all the teachers. Miss Angela Joycet the assistant principal, has charge of disciplinary cases and of absence. Miss Hanstrom, the nurse, and Mrs. Atkinson, the truant officer, assist Miss Joyce. She also sponsors the Student Council and has supervision of the zero hour in 203 each night. In this work she is assisted by every teacher in the school. Miss Eleanor Berg, who is secretary to the principal, has charge of all the clerical work, Miss Frances Custafson, who is bookkeeper, has supervision of all mimeographing done in the school. Since last Sep- tember, Miss Berg and Miss Gustafson have had the assistance of Miss Dorothy Vaughn, who was graduated from Rockford Senior High School last June. Miss Vaughn has complete charge of telephone calls and does many of the extra tasks that fall to the lot of the office workers. H4l

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AMI, . Miss Elizabeth McGuire, B. A., Miss Gladys Whiting, B. 5., Miss Ann Mosseau, A. 8., Miss Blanche Scone, Ph. 8., Miss Bertha Morse, Miss Myrtle Johnson, A. M., Miss Dorothy Blackburn, B. A. :1: ii: is Miss Elizabeth Braid, B. A., Miss Edith Stewart, B. A., Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, B. 5., Miss Vira Esther Clark, Mt A., Head of the Department of English; Miss Sarah Snyder, teacher of English, does not appear in this photograph. DEPARTMENTS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH General language, Latin and French are included in the foreign language schedule. All classes include in the work the memorization of poems, songs and outstanding and interesting facts concerning the country and its people, grammar, translations, completion and vocabu- lary work, and oral and written assignments also are included in the daily work. English derivatives are studied and correspondence with children in foreign lands motivates many units and serves as a tie-up with the social needs of pupils. Reading, literature. oral and written composition, grammatical usage. and spelling are included throughout the weele work in each of the three required years of work in English courses. The new unit in newswriting has proved very popular and is becoming an elective with more pupils each semester. The 78 reading tests have become invalu- able aids in classifying pupils for placement and as a basis for select- ing new texts and aids for remedial work. Remedial procedures in all phases of the work are an integral part of the course, so that backward pupils make a maximum of progress in a minimum amount of time. The department co-operates closely with all other departments in the school. ll6l