Springfield High School - Capitoline Yearbook (Springfield, IL)

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Eluzabeth Graham Head of Englush Depart ment Unuversuty of Illu nous B Muddlebury College M A Bread Loaf School ot Englush RHHONAL STUDY OF AMENCAN LHERATURE ENGLISH Although the Englush Department contunued uts perennual stress upon basuc skulls thus year ut placed partucular emphasus on thought gettung personal and socual development mental health un thunkung problem solvung and coverung the lag between knowledge and practuce Safeguardung tradutuons and developung a maturung phulosophy helps the student to luve harmonuously wuth the rest of the world therefore luvung rather than learnung about people who have luved us stressed un Englush classes Worked out systematucally thus year the fulm program us now closely knut unto the department s courses For example the movue program for Freshmen starts wuth umprovement of handwrutung usung the ductuonary knowung the lubrary spellung umprovung pronuncuatuon sentence and punctuatuon Dur ung the second semester these Freshmen learned about choosung books and developung un readung They saw scenes un Scotland England and feudal lands The program of skulls for the Sophomores uncluded tulms on buuldrng vocabulary out lunung usung quotatuons and stressung the effect of what you read hear or see on your own thunkung and behavuor -5 'IN Ellen M Rourke Debate Coach Unuversuty unous A Unuversuty of Chucago DepaulUnuversuty North western Unuversuty Lun n College of aw LLB Admutted to the Bar liv- Anno- Lucue Alexander Unuversuty of Chucago Phl3 Unuversuty of nous Unuversuty of New Mexuco Summer Se suon at Oxford England Twewe 3 Irene Sumpson n versuty f lllunous A B Unuversuty of NVus consun Unuversutyof Cal ufornua College of New York Cuty Columbua U u versuty Hurvard U ux suty Margaret E Rourke Drama Coach Unuwcrsuty of Chucago PhB nu v rsuty of lllunous A Columbua College of Ex pressron Northwes crn School of Speech Robert sons C1 Doyles Schools Of Actung T . . ' ' . M ' . ' ' ' I ' , . . . . fe' L . g is 1 it ., mv V, - ,S I' kk E 1-,gf 9 T - -' NY r f ff 'VN . I 5 ' ' ' , U 2 o ' , gl 'fa of Ill' 'Q .B., M.A.g . .3 ' lllu- . .3 V .- ' , ..1 U - ' ' ' ' 3 3 ' I 2 - e ' , M, .g , f 1 - V It Q ' : f nf . Z rb' col L , H 2 f n fcr- l ' 3 -

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COUNSELORS-PETEFISH JOHNSON HAGER LEDERER COUNSFI ORS Luttle do most of us realize the huge iob ut us to see that fourteen hundred students behave themselves get help wuth their problems and have theur schedules arranged so they wull be able to graduate We hope none wull be guulty of taking for granted the assust ance guven to each and every one of us by our four capable and friendly counselors When a student enters S H S he us assigned to a study hall where he wull remaun hus entire four years Thus guves the student the opportunuty to work wuth one counselor and become thoroughly acquainted There are four such study centers two for the boys and two for the gurls Mr Petefush and Mr Lederer serve as study hall supervisors for the boys The gurls have the able guudance of Muss Hager and Muss Johnson These coun selors must look ahead and plan wuth each student hus courses for four years They must selor must know the problems the school lufe and the home lufe of each student Aside from personal contact wuth students they must see to ut that good study condu tuons exust un all study centers From the announcements that are read and posted un the study halls by the advusors ut us easy to keep up wuth the happenings of the school Due to the efforts of our counselors the freshmen fund theur role un Hugh School an easier one The get acquaunted partues have made them feel much more at home Theur parents have also received a vusut some time durung the year from theur chuld s advusor The uob of our four counselors us not an easy one They are expected to play mother father and advuser to us while we are on the S H S campus So let s guve them our thanks for the wonderful help they have been to us Eleven A J keep all individual records, such as grades and special tests. ln other words, each coun- ! ' Y 4

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FRESHMEN TRAVEL TO WONDER LANDQ AND VISIT CASTLES IN SPAIN 'van of r-'Y' Mary E Nebllck Le Bas Bleus I er I S T C Uruver Slfy of Chlcago Ph B M A Pnscllla Fogarty Gladys D Black Letha Erlers YIDITY College B I UnIversIty of ChIcago MacMurray College AB ColumbIa UnIversIty AM Ph B CoIumbIa UnIver James MIIlIkIn UnIversIty sIty MA Bread Da UnIversIty of Iowa Um School of EngIIsh VQYSIYY of Colorado In the photograph of a IO class of MIss Margaret Rourke In whIch the students are usIng a well map to learn about regIonal Amenca In lIterature the readIng and dIscussIon was supplemented by tIlms about the Navajo lndIans I-lopI IndIans George Washmgton Carver Washlnqton IrvIng New England shrInes and NatIonaI Parks And thIs year students had the opportunIty to hear a program of orIgInal poems Wfll ten by Robert SIebert 36 and to hear the I-lIram College CentennIal ChoIr sIng an all Vachel LIndsay program Next year the Department hopes to use a projector to show fIIms and sIIdes In the classroom Mane Dean NatIonal Honor SOCIETY ComrnIttee LJnIversIty of Chncago M A Illmo s Wesleyan B S UnIver sIty of Iowa Pearl Brown Iowa Wesleyan UnIver sIty AB CoIumbIa Um versIty UnIversIty of ChI cago MA Harvard UnI versIty Thrrteen Isabel Fogarty rnIty Co ege A B nIversIty f IllInos UnIversIty of VVISCOIWSID Boston UnIversItv C lumbIa LJnIversItv fr Margaret WIIson Le Bas Advlser Northwestern UnIversIty M ColumbIa UnIversIty Pasadena Playhouse urnalI AdvIser I 4 'F z, 1 g Y- Jr. E -Ad- T , .Ltg I , V . , .1 vs 3 . .1 - ' ' ' , , , . .5 A 1 . . l V Y , ' I: L f .Q , I Y Qi I L Aja. I . TI ll , .1 Sr, 5 1 3 . .3 f U ' O I I. , . 3 I . ' - ' I EAI, ,Ag , . .1 - . I - .I 0- '. , 3 3 Jo sm