Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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Here 's the best singer we ever heard, Miss Killian sings just like a bird, Aside from the Choral Club she teaches, too, If 'twasn't for her, what would Miss Bloxom do? Now Miss Lankford does her best, To keep the senior class at rest, We talk a lot and don't deny it, And it takes Miss Lankford to keep us quiet. Miss Mitchell, the best artist we ever saw, We 'd all be artists if we could draw, She has more practice than we, by heck, 'Cause every month she draws a check. Miss Morris prepares our girls for teachers, 'Tis a shame to spoil their features, She invented a scheme that's wise, To give the girls some exercise. Mr. Parsons, his fame and knowledge, He got chiefly from VVashington College, Those girls in France he thought were grand, But he loves the name of Maryland. Miss May Powell is next in line, Now in commercial she is fine, Between classes she's been seen by all, To pick up freshies in the hall. N ow comes our dear Miss Ruth, Who never fails to tell the truth. Every morning she drives her car, Because she lives so very far. Here 's the life of the faculty, Q Mrs. Toulson, who is filled with glee, The reason she is so vcry big, Is because she teaches Trig. Here is Miss NVilson, the dancer they say, She attends every one and can 't stay away, She and Miss Dryden go arm in arm, As long as it 's two Marys', there is no harm. R. D. L 15

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illnrultg 15112111 This being something we seldom do, Vlfe hope it will appeal to you, Being no hard-feeling but fun a plenty, Receive this from the class of '20. Taking them alphabetically, you see, lVe'll begin with the letter B , 'Tis dear Miss Bloxom, whom you all know, The one who teaches Cicero. Next and second, as best you see, Is one named after Robert Lee, Mr. Clark, principal of our school, 'Who makes us go strictly by his rule. Next on the program is Miss Dashiell, Who sometimes rides in an automobile, Every day she gives us a chance, To speak as if we were in France. Miss Dryden with her 4iCOl11lIl0I'Cl2ll Powers, Has taught us shorthand for many hours, She is also in love, so they say, Vllith a nice young man at the Y. M. A. NVe've got to hand it to Mrs. Fooks, She teaches us nothing out of books, For making furniture she is right there, Anything from a Ford to a chair. Little Miss Gunby is loved by all, Especially by the girls in basketball, And with the fellows she's not slow, There's one in Seaford she does know. The 4'Queen'l of all English is Miss Hill, If ltwasn't for II all her life she'd be ill. She teaches us literature, rhetoric and rhyme And is ready to help us at any time. Here 's Miss Jacobs, she lives in room six, She deals with seniors and never Kicks, She teaches science and all that stuff, VVe could say more, but that's enough. ' 14

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Efvarhrra' Eraining Gllaaa The Wicomico High School enjoys the distinction of being the only High School in the State which maintains a Teachers' Training Department. This department was organized in 1915 through the influence of Supt. Hollo- way. The course includes two training subjects, pedagogy and sociology, in the senior year, and a post graduate year in which the entire year is spent in the study of the theory of teaching and observation and practice teaching in the elementary grades. The first class completing the post grad- uate year consisted of twenty girls who were graduated in 1917. V During the first two years a Demonstration School in charge of Miss Cora Gilliss was maintained' in which the classes observed well planned lessons and taught under supervision. The other work of this department has been in charge of Miss Ida Morris. Including this year's class there have been four classes graduating from this department making forty-four graduates in all. The largest per- centage of these are filling positions in rural and graded schools in Wicomi- co County. In the present shortage of teachers this department has per- formed a real service for the county in adding a number of trained teachers to the force. 16