Ballard High School - Shingle Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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AT WORK Upper left: During the fall semester, this experi- ment involving reHex actions to a stimulus helped to bring a more direct application of their subject to Ballard biology students. Upper right: An entirely new type of subject intro- duced for the benefit of Ballard students this semes- ter was the radio code class, a course in Morse code and radio fundamentals. Lower left: The Tea Room Management class is designed to give practical experience in planning, preparing, and serving meals with a minimum of supervision to senior girls. Lower right: One ofthe only three similar courses offered in Seattle, Physics III enables boys inter- ested in advanced science to become familiar with electrical instruments and theories. Above: Untroubled by ex- cessive cold and lack of sunshine, botany students retreat to the greenhouse during the winter months to prepare shoots and cut- tings for the spring plant- ing. l 25

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AT WURK Upper left: Mathematics classes acquaint pupils with fundamental algebraic operations, geometric conceptions, and the more basic principles of calcu- lus and trigonometry. Upper right: In the botany classes, Ballardites get an opportunity rather different from that afforded in most other classes, the chance to do their school work out of doors. Lower left: Our high school is doing its share in the national defense program by teaching boys such as this one skills and knowledge required by this country's great industrial plants. Lower right: Prospective architects, contractors, machinists, and engineers are given fundamental training in the preparation and reading of blue- plints in the mechanical drawing class. Above: In General Science, freshmen students acquire a basic understanding of modern progress which will enable them to better interpret the knowledge they will attain in future years. 24 l F

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AT WURK Upper left: This singing group is typical of the in- formal but cooperative manner in which boys and girls in the Music department get together for mutual enjoyment and acquisition of skill. Upper right: Domestic-minded girls learn the ever-useful ability of combining sugar and spice and things that are nicev in such a way as to pro- duce delicious cakes, pies, and other tasty vittles in Senior Foods. Lower left: Offering an outlet to the artistically inclined, the art classes teach the elements of let- tering, sketching, cartooning, and painting. Lower right: Chemistry courses enable Ballard students to keep up with our ever-changing civiliza- tion by instilling in them the basic conceptions of this important science. 26 Below: Typing is a course popular with both boys and girls, for expertness in this subject creates many voca- es and tional op makes neater, easier, and