Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Miss Frances Shimmin, B.M.E., Mr. Alfred N. Moore, M.A Miss Lucile Mathre, A.B., Miss Emma Green, B.A. Miss Shimmirfs sixth-hour :lass in music. MUSIC The music department offered pupils anropportunity to sing or to play in the orchestra or band. .One semester of vocal music was required of all seventh-grade pupilsg strings, brass, or woodwinds were substituted for those who wished to work into the band or orchestra. Emphasis this year was placed on patriotic songs of America and the South American countries. ' In seventh and eighth grade music was offered as an elective, and included-besides the advanced strings, brass, and woodwinds sections-orchestra, band, music I and II, and chorus. Mr. Moore had charge of the bandg Miss Green supervised the orchestrag Miss Shimmin and Miss Mathre conducted the vocal music classes. Pupils have demonstrated what they have learned in music on several occasions this past year. At Christmas there was a singg during the spring, there were concerts by the choral groups, the band, and the orchestra. Many assembly programs were made more enjoyable with the assistance of these groups. 20

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Miss Lucille Linden, B.S., Miss Millie M. Knott, A.M., head of department: Miss Edith Stauf. Mis: Stan 'J sixth-hour class in makin g HOUSEHOLD ARTS Household arts classes were designed to teach girls such skills as will make them more efficient in the home as well as to give them the fundamentals of cooking and sewing. In foods classes the seventh-grade girls were taught how to prepare breakfasts, while the eighth- and ninth-grade girls were given practice inthe preparation of luncheons and dinners. Those enrolled in clothing classes were given the basic stitches of sewing and then practical experience in making pinafores, slips, and cotton skirts. Child care, personal hygiene, etiquette, and architecture were units of the home arts course, given to pupils in the eighth grade. Aprons and potholders, made by the clothing classes and home-canned goods, cookies, and bread, made by the cooking classes, were attractively displayed dur- ing the year. The seventh-grade classes also gave teas for their mothers, while the Foods A classes gave two luncheons, which were served in the school dining-room. 19

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l .EQIJ fy Miss Lucille Linden, D.S., Mrs. Bessie Dougherty, Miss Merle Crandall. Mir: Crandall? sixlb-bour class in ar! . ART Work in the department of art was planned that pupils enrolled in these classes might be better able to appreciate the beauties around them, to choose clothes carefully and well, and to arrange homes attractively, as well as to have a deeper appreciation of the fine arts. Necessary changes were made in the work to supply needed time to make war posters and to give special assistance to the junior Red Cross activities. i Regular courses specialized in making pottery and in learning to do finger painting. Craft I and II had work in modeling with clay and in making articles from cork and wooclg some made cartoons that were especially successful. Art I and II classes were given work with clay, pottery making, poster construction, and other art work. 21 44