Roosevelt Lincoln Middle School - Yearbook (Salina, KS)

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I l 1 E 1 Latin HOME ROOM 26 Florence Healey. Teac-her Olass Officers lst. Semester 2nd. Semester Pres. Mdames Smith Pres. -Nadine Glover Sec.FWilliam Millikin Sec. and Treas.eNevelle Shaffer Treas.-Raymond Spaeth Reportere Roy Tozier Member of Student CouncilwVVilliam Millikin Room 26 has 31 members. lVe have a hundred percent membership in the Junior Red Cross and the Y. VV. C. A. VVe havea hundred percent subscription to the Rail-Splitter and the special edition. Wiayne Snodgrass represents us in the orchestra, Katherine Falk, Nevelle Shaffer, and Lorraine Lovan, in the Girl's Glee Club. Elsie Hartley, Lineolnls popular reader, belongs to us. 'We had a sub, Kenneth VVest on the football team, and four boys out for track. lVe also have the editor-in-chief of the Rail- Splitter. VVe won the attendance banner for the first four months and the Best Speller banner the first time. VVe sing equally Well in Latin and English. -- 215-

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Subjevt-English ROOM 25 Teacher-Bula M. Gardner First Semester Uffic-ers Sec-ond Semester Pres., Genevieve Ferguson Pres., Violet Nelson 1 w 7 w Vive Pres.. Chester Godard Y ice Pres. ,Gertrude Moll 1 w See.-Treas., Marjorie topple ben'.eTreas., Evelyn Rose Student Uounvil Representative. Evelyn Hose Ordinary beings only are we And no great honors can we see In looking over our revords, yet Claud Betterson without a fret Played foot ball and basket ball too, Wyrick was not far behind the crew. Orchestra members have we three Gertrude, Leon, Cleo, although wee. XVe have had good times galore Even in January we took a store Of provisions, and wont to Upper Mill Where we played and ate to our fill. The girls organized a basket ball team And won their first game with Room 16. Later we were good losers we know To that fact, proof we can show. To the Rail-Splitter we are loyal Our subscription list is 100 percent royal A Perplexing Situation was our last feat The characters in it can't be beat. - 2:1-

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V ' 'N 1-Tl-IE RAIL - SPLITTER:-1 Nl Il H ll ll IVA The Purpose of the Home Room HE purpose of the home room in general is to make it possible Jem 4 Y x for one teacher to have more direct responsibility in mat- ters of conduct and attendance over a small group of students. Meeting them four times a day, she is able to get better acquainted with them than if she saw them only at class time. She keeps the attendance record and can learn more easily the causes of absences and tardies than could be done at the office. In many cases careful inquires and timely advice will help to lessen absences, And pride in the home room groupis record tends to do away with tardies. Because she knows them better, she can often give them helpful advice about choosing their future courses of study. She can encourage the timid and backward ones, and tone down those who are too forward. The home rooms have an organization of their own, giving the students a chance to learn how to conduct meetings, and to get things done in the best and quickest way. They have an opportunity to develop a sense of responsi- bility and initiative. Through their student council representive, they have a chance to help direct the policies of the school, and make suggestions for bettering school conditions. They may also develop the right attitude toward the administration, and learn Why certain rules must be made. The programs given in the special home room periods offer a chance for self expression in many VVQLYS. The talent discovered here is available for chapel programs. Preparing for debates and speeches and readings increase their knowledge as well as their self confidence and poise. Informal discussion serves as a sort of clearing house for their ideas on general questions of conduct and citizenship which find no place in any regular class room work. When they see their ideas do not meet the approval of the majority, they are apt to modify them, and if they see that they are able to influence the views of others, they gain confidence. G' o 'I ' ' I ll as ' SEG' ' in nge- lt'