Streator Township High School - Hardscrabble Yearbook (Streator, IL)

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'Ten HARDSCRABBLE BUNDY CAMPBELL QUINN Roms PATTERSON BOARD OF EDUCATION President ..,............................................... T. M. Quinn Secretary ..................,...... ........... L incoln Bundy Township Treasurer ......... ........ L awrence Sowden COMMITTEES Buildings, Grounds, and Supplies Teachers and School Management James Robb John B. Patterson Lincoln Bundy Harry Campbell STREATOR TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL 1 'wt is 'E .Jah

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HARDSCRABBLE ' 'Y Gymnasium Doorway Streator Township High School .- v- Nine

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HARDSCRABBLE l The School g The new Streator Town- ship High School was ded- icated in 192'6. It was built to accommodate one thousand students. This seemed un- necessary at that time, but the steadily increasing attend- ance justifies this decision. The enlarged enrollment has made it necessary to increase the number of members of the faculty from thirty-five to forty-two. These with a librarian, a reader of themes, a general secretary, an assist- ant secretary, and the prin- cipal, make forty-seven mem- bers in the administrative force. The six new members who filled the vacancies created by resignations of last year are: Mr. Broaddus, Miss Cadwell, Mr. Mulford, Miss Purcell, Miss Sexton, - and Miss Stinsley. PRINCIPAL w. D. WALDRII- The growth of the commercial department has been so marked that it has necessitated the addition of a new type room of which Miss Halsey has charge. In addition to bookkeeping, commercial arithmetic, commercial geography, typing, and shorthand, a course in comptometry has been introduced in the curriculum of this department. Although this course is not required for college entrance, it enables those mastering it to serve themselves and the community in the capacity of efiicient stenographers, typists, and bookkeepers. In the foreign language department one finds that Spanish, Latin, French, and German are offered. The study of a foreign language is valuable from both a pleasurable and a practical standpoint. In each class, interest in the countries in which the language is spoken is stimulated by the extensive study of foreign magazines and books. The English department, one of the largest in the school, offers three years of required work, and the electives of English literature and Special Senior English, a course which offers a review of previous work to those students wishing to go to college. Throughout the four years special attention is paid to the writing of themes. The manual arts department, which contains the following divisions. wood shop, mechanical drawing, machine shop, and printing, is of vital importance to the school in general. Tickets for all the athletic contests, absence pads, requisition pads, excuse pads, library reading permits, study hall blanks, and grade cards for use in the school office, are made in the Eleven