Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-29
CoNy h|Gn'sAT HOME

Thursday-Oceasion Proves
a Great Success-Entertain-
ment at Close Of Program
Cony Highs Eat home" was a tre-
mendous success--at least that was
the testimony of the over geo citizens.
mothers and fathers or just plain
friends, who were guests. The regu-
lar classes of the school day were held
Thursday afternoon. beginning at lis
instead of the usual morning hour Of
SIS. Even when the first bell rang
there were visitors enough on hand to
fill up most of the extra seats. Then
the tardy ones came and were given
their passes" without the "1o inutes
extra" punishment which the young
sters might have received.
Every teacher was a hostess or host
and the student body seemed to catch
the spirit Of being especially hos
pitable. Smiling Principal Quimby,
WHIP was largely responsible for the
plans Of the affair, kept the large
humber of guests we'll distributed with
the aid Of excellent ushers from the
study rooms. 1t would take much
space to explain the interesting things
which appealed to the various groups
of eager listeners. OF course the Voc
Miss Martha Tucker had an interest
ing exhibit in the sewing room where
her class Of freshmen girls vas COM
plotting some dainty house dresses.
Miss Tucker being called away to her
work in the grades, the classes were
conducted by Muriel Hall.
Miss Blanche Webster was showing
her students in cooking about prepar
ing a luncheon menu. The lesson was
sort Of a project" in which the stu.
dents prepared the ingredients them
selves and later served them in As
sembly hall during the social hour.
Chester F.. Floyd had hardly room
to accommodate the guests who tried
to get near the laboratory lecture ta-
bic where he was performing some
chemistry experiments. The manufac-
ture of chlorine gas by the class. how
ever, soon thinned out the ranks Of
visitors. In his physics class Mr..
Floyd directed the performance of an
interesting experiment in magnetism.
Miss Edith flideout had some clev-
erly prepared Rotations in oral Eng
lish. The students acted as chaifmen
in conducting a sort of forum. Miss
Rideout taking the role of critic and
helping the students give helpful crit
| icism to their mates. Similar work was
done by Miss Hazel Gibbs in her Eng
fishes classes. The former teacher had
senior and sophomores. the latter
freshmen only. Miss Gibbs also had a
lively class in beginners French.
Miss Inez Robinson in her classes
for freshman and sophomore English
had some interesting oral reports. Her
classes in required college entrance
| English we're very wide-awake. Miss
Marjorie Lee, who has all of the com
mercial English. conducted some we'll
prepared discussions and found time
, besides to teach some classes in type
writing.
| Miss Lottie Harrington had a room
! full of freshmen every period. The
classes in arithmetic. algebra and PEN
manship and spelling were of high
order. Some of the penmanship work
was on exhibition. although it was not
proposed to make the day for showing
or PAST work.
| Miss Marion Dunnels conducted
| classes in higher mathematic Her
hoom was artistically decorated by
| blackboard drawings of seometric de-
signs in colors. Students did board
work and gave oral explanations.
Miss Mabel Little taught several
large divisions OF both Freshmen
and Sophomores in Latin and French
respectively. The youngsters were
! struggling with irregular verbs and
third and fourth declensions as il
they really liked their work.
Miss Alice Vickery gave sort Ut an
entertainment by having her Latin
classes sing several we'll known
hymns and songs in Latin. Her
room was decorated with Latin
proverbs and charts showing the
application Of Latin to daily life.
In Miss Weeks advanced French
classes there was plenty Of CONVEX
sation in the foreign tongue. In
fact no word of English was spoken
by the teacher in many Of the reci-
tations. Interesting French stories
were being read.
On the top floor, Miss Florence
Day conducted classes in algebra and
elementary science for girls; Coach
Thompson had a live discussion in
his class of science for boys; and
Miss Helen Tracy held classes in
history and Junior English. In the
latter one feature was an interest
ing debate. A class in Senior Eng
lish had an appropriate debate on
Daylight Saving for Augusta. Since
the school was in favor Of the
scheme by vote Of PSI to 199, the
arguments seemed to carry consider.
able Affirmative conviction.
In the commercial department,
Miss Vera Driscoll and Miss Spauld-
ing demonstrated the use Of the
Victrola in conducting classes in
typewriting. Both teachers also had
divisions in shorthand. teaching the
Gregg, system in varied degrees of
complication. Robert Thurston
taught classes in bookkeeping and
continued the direction OF a com.
pleto method of banking Mrs