Wausau High School - Wahiscan Yearbook (Wausau, WI)

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ELMER HARRISON BEN IVIARILLA HARRY ROESKE JONES BERG ZELLHOEFER JOHNSON mathematics, Qllnmmerte ATHEMATICS is an important factor in the rapid advancement of our scientific and mechanical age. It is responsible for many of our very important inventions and scientific discoveries. The aim of this department is to introduce such topics of interest as will induce more pupils to become better students of this highly important subject. The success of this is noticeable in the ever increasing numbers in the advanced classes. We hope that a greater number will be better prepared to make their mark in this age of inventions in which we live because of their study of alge- bra, geometry, and allied subjects. With more than 40 per cent of the senior high school enrolled in the com- mercial department, its rooms were a scene of business-like activity from the beginning to the end of the day. Thorough knowledge of office and business customs: familiarity with mimeograph, distaphone, ditto, bookkeeping, and calculating machinesg and training in the different methods of filing and indexing was given. Practical talks on varied business topics as well as many informal parties, dances, and picnics tended to bring the members of the department into friend- lier and more wholesome relationships. WILLIAM RAY ARTHUR CASSANDRA MARJORIE MAXWELL BURTON KRAUSE TI-IRASHER GADBOIS Librarian E171

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liDNA l'mURKllXlfl RUTH Al.BlilGllli FRANCES AR3lS'lRONG XVILMX llORRFl.l nglisb ACH student in the senior high school is expected to take six semesters of English. ln his sophomore year, the first semester is devoted to oral work. Besides the drill in parliamentary practice, he is trained to read poetry with careful interpretation, and to give expression to his own thoughts in a clear and Well-organized manner. In his second semester, there awaits him a review of grammar and the fundamentals of composition, as well as some fine stories in poem, story, and novel form. As a junior, he struggles with the fallacies in his own and other people's reasoning: he practices writing letters: he becomes acquainted with the various aspects of the newspaper: he reads both old and modern essays and tries his own hand at them: and last of all, he makes a study of American literature. The senior looks at English literature as a whole, makes a careful study of certain more diflicult writers, and tries always to see each as interpreter of his time and often of all time. In his last semester, the senior may choose between an advanced course in journalism or the opportunity to strengthen his foundation in composition, both oral and written, and to gain a wider knowledge of the modern writers whom he will wish to enjoy later in life. CfA'I'lll:RINlf JOHNS lllEl.IfN JoNFs AGNES l..XUT VIULFT VOHS firm

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..z':2I-:' t 0 ve. . 1 W. Sf ' 5 l . .lUSlEI'liINli K. R. N. XVANDIX KUNDA FLORFNCE MARILLIX DARRIN GRILL HOPP LUZENSKA SCHWEIZER ZITLLIIOFFFR jllilusit, jfureign language, Zlnhusttial Qtts HE vocal work under the direction of Miss Josephine Darrin consists of an A Capella choir of 85 members whose object is to learn to appreciate through singing, the masterpieces of choral literature. There are also glee clubs for boys and girls. Under Mr. K. R. N. Grill's direction the band plays the highest quality of music-'llVlorning Noon and Night Overturewp Country Gardens , The American Patrol -with its goal, the State Band Tournament. The foreign languages, French, German, and Latin, whose student cultural advantages are numberless to anyone who is contemplating entering upon a scientific, legal, and even business career, offer a knowledge and training that is indispensable. The classics, represented by Latin, and the modern languages. by French and German, provide a wide field of study to one who enjoys and knows he needs the background attained by a knowledge of languages. The Industrial Arts program, which is one of the most varied and com- plete of any offered in a community the size of Wausau, includes instruction in ten different shops. The purpose of this program is to provide experiences in vocational and industrial lines in order that the boys may more effectively discover their particular mechanical aptitudes. The industrial arts courses are particularly valuable to boys who expect to take engineering or vocational teachers' courses or who may want to enter the Held of industry immediately upon graduation from high school. Russert. EARL M. WILLIAM 4 n Joim , smniz Bowman DOHR J' ft KILROE KUBIAK C' H' WMU R llfll