Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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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

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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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fir! Weld. Q NIL, Miss lVeld's sixth-hour class in algebra. MATHEMATICS Mathematics, based on fundamental human needs, has assumed an ever-larger place in work of the civilized community. In all courses units were given which will prepare pupils to meet these demands in everyday living. Special emphasis this year was placed on mastery of those skills taught. Mathematics was a required subject in seventh and eighth grades. Work covered by seventh-grade course gave background to further study by presenting everyday business applications of arithmetic and the practical uses of intuitive geometry, including direct measurement and the construction and study of basic geometric figures. Work in eighth grade emphasized the social applications and stressed such objectives as indirect measure- ment and the hrst phases of symbolic thinking in algebra. Algebra I and II were ninth-grade electivesg problem solving' was emphasized throughout, and a unit of numerical trigo- nometry was given, with the purpose of showing the significance of indirect measurement. 22 Mrs Helen Monahan BA. Mr. Arthur Annrs BS Miss Florence Penstone MS Mr. Edgar Van Barriger Miss Naime Eckberg BA . Miss Violet Sherwood AB Miss Ruth Hollem M.A, head of department Miss Mary