Washington High School - Anvil Yearbook (East Chicago, IN)

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MR ROY W FEIK Pruncupal Washungton Hugh School East Chucago Induana pues the larger part of one buuldung wuth uts sux grades The uunuor senuor hugh school as housed wuth uts many departments un the buuldungs whuch occupy the re maunder of the cuty block on whuch the enture unut us located The executuve and admunustratuve control of thus large factory of educatuon us under the guudance of the pruncupal and numerous assustants Every student and teacher of Washungton recognuzes the able durectuon whuch has been theurs under the regume of Mr Roy W Feuk To one unsude the organuzatuon uts smoothness of executuon us the evudence of the abuluty of uts leader The co ordunatuon of the detaul of admunustratuon of courses of study educatuonal supervusuon socual guud ance brungs unto play the assustant pruncupals the dean of gurls the department heads the teachers and the clerucal force of the offuces The uunuor senuor hugh school must provude for uts 2 4OO pupuls courses of study to fut the needs ot the pupuls and at the same qualuty the school for the proper recognutuon by the state and unuversuty authorutues To thus end the educatuonal pro gram us duvuded unto departments All of these departments present classworlc whuch us partucupated un by the students accordung to planned s hedules The enterung students may elect one of four plans of study College Preparatory General Com mercual or Vocatuonal The names sugnufy the mauor obuectuve of each The Departments of Englush toreugn language mathematucs scuence and socual studues unute un presentung theur several tuelds wuth a two told vuewpount of futtung the future cutuzen to carry on un hus chosen actuvuty and un preparung hum to ad vance un hugher unstututuons of learnung The heads of these departments assust un the plannung of courses of study and un the supervusuon ot teachung technuaue The cultural sude of the youth s educatuon us admurably cared for un the depart ments of musuc and tune arts The former has un the years of uts exustence un 111: Y . . . . . ,, ,, . . 1 u ' I I I I . - I K . . . . C . I I I - I I I . , . . . . H 0 Fifh-on

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SENIOR ANVIL 1934 MR. JOHN G. ROSSMAN Superintendent of Schools East Chicago, Indiana ORGANIZATION AND ADMINISTRATION In this modern day of machine production and mechanized living the student of progress is very much aware of the necessity of organization in order to make the institutions of industry run with precision The development of a smooth running system in the industries of a city 'Ike East Chicago calls for level headed planning and efficient execution on the part of those placed in command The man of the world the patron of the school is little conscious that in the educational institutions of the cities and towns similar organization is neces sary The School City of East Chicago may be said to resemble the industrial unit in the respect of this need for orderly running Its several plants worth millions of dollars house thousands of workers the boys and gurls of today presided over and guided by several hundred teachers and supervisors The direction of all of these into a system of education is in the hands of the representatives of the people of the city the Board of Education Its three mem bers President E H McKenzie Joseph W Dunsing secretary and Mrs, Bertha E McQuald treasurer perform the policy making functions of the organization directing the securing and disposition of funds and the preparation of new equip ment or the replacement of the old The executive officer of the Board is the Superintendent The able functioning of Mr John G Rossman in this capacity dur :ng the past years has been extremely efficient and the cause of education has prospered thereby The Washington High School ns but one unit in this system but IH its size and variety of functions is far ahead of any other of the units The twelve grades in cluded in the unit enroll more than 3 IOO pupils The elementary school occu .1 I - I I ' ' I 11 11 - - 1 I 1 1 ' ' 1 ' ' 1 ' I I ' I I - . 1 I - , . I ' '

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SENIOR ANVIL 1934 East Chucago developed such a multuplucuty of organuzatuons that opportunuty us guv en to pupuls for expressuon un practucally every type of musuc The art department does more than present a cultural sude of art expressuon The young Iaclues par tucularly are trauned un the fueld of desugn home planning and decoratuon and other pupuls are students of commercual art and poster makung From some vuewpounts the work un the shops seems un durect antuthesus to the work un Fune Arts Thus work un the shops has been styled vocatuonal whule thus term has excluded the work un Home Economucs ln the tueld of Home Eco nomucs the young ladues are g ven the theory and practuce of the plannung and preparatuon of foods and managementof the home The undustrual character ot the communuty has created a demand for a broad pro gramme of shop theory and practuce Therefore un addutuon to the fundamentals of manual arts as guven un the uunuor hugh school ut us pcssuble for the boy to go through certaun exploratory courses whuch wull and hum un determunung whuch trade has a partucular attractuon for hum Then havung decuded thus wuth the help of the vocatuonal advusors he may spend hus hugh school years un buuldung up a skull whuch wull tat hum tor the pract ce ot thattrade un the outsude world Thus voca tuonal course uncludes such related subjects as are necessary to round out the knowledge of trade management The voca tuonal student us also guven cours s un Englush and Cuvucs to fut hum for contacts whuch he wull make wuth other people after enterung the trades The shops whuch are uncluded un thus department are Drattung Pruntunq Electrucuty Autom bule Machune and Woodworkung Thunkung people un the natuon are becomung more and more aware that the devel opung ofthe mund wuthout a corresponclung tutness of body does not make for the DEAN OF BOYS A T Elluotl Assn Pruncuual DEAN OF GIRLS Muss Emma Blocumqulst MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Mr Walley Muss Overpe k Muss Mendenhall Muss John son Mr Foster Mr Kellam Department Head Muss Cali w Mr ahr I I . . . . ,, . ,, , ' I l , . ' I . ,I ,, . . . , , . . .' I F t . - . . . 0 . . c I . I 1 ' I - Mr. . . . 'stant ' f . . -V ell. .L .