Binghamton North High School - Wampum Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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The Health Education course is divided into two divisionsg the first is individual gym which is given to help correct the pos- ture and defaults of the bodyg the second is regular gym which creates poise, body effi- ciency and co-ordination. The average size of a class is 45. There are 24 corrective classes and 24 regular classes a week. Ap- proximately 150O students take gym. The class program runs according to sea- sons. Basketball and hockey are played in the fall term. Tennis, volleyball and base- ball are played in the spring term. Football for boys is in the fall term. Mr. Ernest Lalley and Mrs. Gladys Ord- way are the instructors for individual gym and Mr. john Reutlinger and Miss Roberta Andrews are the instructors for regular gym. North's gym is large, modern, and well equipped. Arranged so that a motor oper- ated folding door swings into the walls, the large area court with balconies at either end may be converted into two separate gyms for girls and for boys. Shower and locker rooms are on the floor below. Engine Development Laboratory Seated: Miss Roberta Andrews, Mrs. Gladys Oidway Standing: Mr. Ernest Lalley, Mr. John Reutlinger

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Neat Problems for Navigators Seated: Miss Grace Fox, Miss Evelyn Spencer. Standing: Mr. Harold Gillespie, Mr. Robert Redman. Not included in the picture: Miss Irma Burdick. 18 Wl1y study math? is a question fre- quently heard. iiWl1at is its value? To give but a few examples, in answer: The building of homes, schools and shops, the manufacture of clothes we wear, the pro- duction of food we eat, construction of roads, bridges, and other transportation fa- cilities, the building of trains, autos, ships, and planes, in fact, the very structure of the world in which we live requires mathemati- cal knowledge. At North the Mathematics Department consists of two parts: Academic, headed by Mr. Harold Gillespie, who is assisted by Miss Irma Burdick, Miss Grace Fox, Miss Helen Spencer and Mr. Robert Redmang and Voca- tional, with Mr. McGinnis. The academic division boasts of at least 500 students di- vided into 22 classes where General Math. B and A, Plane Geometry B and A, Interme- diate Algebra, Advanced Algebra, Trigo- nometry, and Solid Geometry are taught. The department is proud of the fact that two of its majors, january graduates, Ray Peet and Jacques Harrington QRobert Bellis of june class is first alternatej have been appointed to the United States Naval Acad- emy at Annapolis.

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Seated: Miss Mara Burke, Miss Genevieve Heffron, Mrs. Elizabeth Seely, Miss Ruth McCarrigher, Miss Corinne Lemon, Standing: Mr. Charles Maclnnis, Miss Dorothy Merrill, Miss Josephine Donley, Mr. joseph Normile, Mr. Judson Blakslee, Mrs. Helen Perkins, Mr. Daniel Dressler, Mr. Raymond Merchant. Winging Away Through English i Of North's total enrollment of 1570 there are not more than 40 pupils who do not take English. Fifty-two English classes and four public speaking classes are needed to provide for all of these pupils. As English is difficult for some students and very easy for others, a few special classes are being tested. One of the most important and unusual arrangements is a class com- prised of all the Sophomore boys who take Technical shops. They have all been brought together in one English class. In one grade there are two classes for slower pupils and they are taught a little more slowly than the other classes of the same grade. English classes of today are made ex- tremely interesting by the wide expansion of material covered. English classes have one main point-oral and written expression, but also cover many points such as Spelling, Grammar and Literature, which includes the Essay, Novel, Travel, Poetry, Biography and Drama. English students have many opportunities. Their English fee of 50 cents which is paid each semester enables them to have the use of many books which are not in the regular English course. l 20