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

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Twelve HARDSCRABBLE school print shop. This department was among the largest in the school during the past year. . The art department is one of the busiest in the school. In connection with the regular work of this department, 175 posters were made during the past year, advertising the swimming meets, charity football game, class and club dances, and other school activities. The photographic and art material for the annual and decorations for class parties are also the work of this department. In addition, three craft classes have been instructed in leather work and jewelry. Algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, and advanced algebra are offered in the department of mathematics. Trigonometry is taught when the size of the class warrants it. In addition to the classes in home course, cooking, sewing, and needlework in the home economics department, a new subject, dietetics, offering special training to those girls wishing to become nurses was introduced during the last semester of the school year. VVhile learning the essentials of home-making, cooking, and sewing, the girls are taught lessons in choice of clothing, both from an artistic and an economic viewpoint. They are also instructed in personal hygiene. History is one of the popular subjects in the curriculum of the school as there are a great number of students enrolled in the classes in ancient history, modern history, American history, English history, and civics. The science department offers the following courses: chemistry, physics, physical geography, biology, and elementary science. The class rooms and laboratories are in the older part of the building. While most of the equipment is modern and well selected, it fails to meet the demands of the large enrollment in the popular science courses. The band, the orchestra, the harmony class, and the glee clubs comprise the music department. Many students are taking advantage of the course in music lessons which is offered preparatory to entering the various branches of this department. In the athletic department, in addition to the teams coached for competition with other schools, the following number of students receive physical training: 240 in the girls' gym classes, 150 in the girls' swimming classes, 180 in the boys' gym classes, and 101 in the boys' swimming classes. The library has been enlarged considerably within the last few years. At the present time it contains 3000 volumes for reference, 600 home reading books, and a section of text books which may be loaned to students for the semester. In addition fifteen periodicals are available for leisure reading and many of them are in demand as supplementary material for the various classes. The building and grounds are in charge of the following people: Mr. Tapley, Mr. Adams, Mr. Butcher, Mr. Conner, Mrs. Jardine, and Mr. Mitchell, who willingly cooperate with the members of the faculty whenever they are called upon. Ronelva Lundberg, Co-Editor.

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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

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HARDSCRABBLE - BESS C. BAER B. S. University of Illinois College of St. Teresa Biology RUTH E. BARBER B. A. Grinnell College Latin EDWARD BLAND B. S. Bradley Polytechnic Institute Commercial Arithmetic and Geography Assistant Coach L. R. BROADDUS Bush Conservatory American Conservatory Vander Cook Band School Band and Orchestra ANDREW BRIX B. S. Syracuse University Commercial Subjects Track Coach DORIS BRIX B. S. Syracuse University Business Science AUDREY CADWELL B. S. University of Illinois M. A. University of Illinois French and Spanish GLEN CADY B. S. Simpson College Bookkeeping and Economics CLARA COLWELL Gregg School Shorthand KATHERINE M. CONNESS A. B. University of Illinois History and Civics DOROTHY ILEENE CULLY A. B. Illinois College University of Wisconsin Spanish and History EVANGELINE DALE B. A. College of St. Teresa French and Spanish LOWELL DALE A. B. Wabash College Commercial Law Director of Athletics LOUISE DORSEY A. B. St. Mary of the Woods College University of Chicago University of Illinois English and History FLORENCE FERGUSON B. S. Wooster College Mathematica Faculty Personnel LOUIS R. FINCHAM University of Illinois Illinois Normal University Stout Institute Manual Arts BERNARD S. FRIEDMAN A. B. University of Illinois Chemistry, Physics, and Physical Geography MARGARET A. HALL University of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Arts and Crafts REBECCA HALSEY B. S. University of Illinois Gallagher School of Business Typewriting ETHEL G. HOWELLS Chicago Normal University of Wisconsin University of Illinois English MARY HOWLAND B. M. St. Mary's College English and Music HELEN W. JACKSON A. B. University of Illinois Mathematics FRANCIS J. KOENIG A. B. University of Illinois English and German CYRILLA M. KUCHEN- BECKER St. Mary's College University of Wisconsin English and Spanish LITTA LAW ' B. S. Millikin University Clothing, Neddlework and Home Course E. B. LIST B. S. Franklin College Mathematics BERYL McCLURE B. S. University of Nebraska Home Economics and Science MILDRED L. MOYNIHAN A. B. University of Illinois English LINDEN MULFORD B. S. Knox College University of Chicago History and Commercial Law ATHENE T. NACHTRIEB B. A. Northwestern University Latin BERNADINE NICHOLAS B. A. College of St. Teresa History BESSIE V. PELLOUCHOUD A. B. University of Illinois English RAMONA A. POWELL B. S. University of Illinois Mathematics and Science JEAN PURCELL Gregg School University of Chicago Typewriting JOSEPHINE PURCELL B. S. University of Illinois St. Mary's College English A. L. RICHARDS Oshkosh State Normal Machine Shop REEDA SEXTON B. M. Northwestern University English and Music JEAN STINGLEY B. S. University of Illinois General Science DELLA SWANSON Gregg School Commercial Geography REBECCA R. WEINSTEIN B. S. University of Illinois Northwestern College Physical Education and Swimming MARY A. WINSHIP Al. B. University of Illinois Foods and Clothing AUGUST VOHS South Bend I-I. S. Swimming Director MAXINE DE MUTH University of Michigan University of Illinois Librarian SONIA MILLER Knox College University of Illinois University of Wisconsin Reader of Themes MARGARET TKACH Streator High School Secretary KATHERYNE CROWL Streator High School Assistant Secretary Thirteen