Strawn High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Strawn, TX)

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Mrs. J. A. Milling Przncjbal, B. S., Social Sciences Mrs. J. B. Merrell B. S., Ehgltsh Cora Ott B. S., Mathematzcs Fburth Grade Mrs. Bob Brothers 7Wird Grade Mrs. Allen Disharoon Second Grade Mrs. August Venturi B. S., First Grade

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i 74M,0:f4.7-'QE Way-- On the eastern half'ofthe Strawn School campusstandstheward school building, where youngsters begin the long march towardvthat moment when they receive a high school diploma and know that their public school days are over. And so no year-book would be complete without a page about our grade school, the teachers who labor there, and the children who make up those grades. ' On the preceding page, you have seen the six teachers who devote their time and talent to that most-important business of starting these of the younger generation off on their school career., Under the able direction of Mrs. J. A. Milling, the principal, these teachers not only teach the old-fashioned read1n', writin', and arithmetic, but little of everything else besides. For instance: The teacher in high school works hard, we all know, But the poor elementary teacher - oh, oh! She must know how to sing and to paint To To To To To umpire a ball game, to run a track be yard police, a regular beat. make a bookcase and to raise lovely weave a good basket and make things write a fair poem, to put on a play, and to dance, plants, of clay, meet, She must see that each pupil is healthy and fed, V And examine for vermin each untidy head I And of course she must teach them to read and to spell To figure a little - they needn't do well At these humdrum tasks, nor need do them at all If they'd rather draw pictures or fresco the wall. She must know every subject under the sun And then she'll discover she has only begun. For where children's interests lead, who can tell? They may want to learn Hindu instead of to Spell. With all arts, crafts, and skills in one addled pate There's just no prophesying the grade teacher's fate! Now the Eighth Grade has come over to high school, leaving seven grades behind. Mrs. Marjorie Venturi holds sway over the first grade, thinking meanwhile about her husband who is overseas somewhere. Mrs. Allen Disharoon has the second grade, and some of her thoughts go to a couple of fine sons who are also in a branch of the armed forces. Mrs. Bob Brothers teaches the third, while waiting for the return of Soldier Bob, who is in India. Miss Cora Ott teaches the fourth and also all the math in the higher grades. And Mrs. J. B. Merrell teaches English, thinking often of her several brothers who are serving their country during this war. So it is readily seen that the elementary school is a valuable part of our school system, always ready to co-operate.