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

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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

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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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s A. l Seated: Ivfr. Harold Wilscln, lN'Ir. Harold Dcsnoycrs Mr Yugcrie Specu. hcrd hir llcli Hy M luistirn Hoff man. Standing: Mr. james McGinnis, Mr. Ronald ohnston Mr Frlnk Fiischettr M Robcit Cyl rnxillc M1 Htibcit Nichols INIV. Arthur Stanat, lvlr. lvlarion Holmes, hir. Robert Duff hir Robert Bennet Training Fleet 'I'ec:hn1c1ans North High, which was planned primari- ly for a vocational school, but which offers all the usual academic subjects in the usual high school curriculum, has three main divi- sions of shops which are situated on the ground floor. They are the technical, voca- tional and industrial arts departments. In 12 shops on the ground floor are some of the most modern shops in the state. In the industrial arts department are auto, elec- tric, machine, printing, photography, and metal shops besides mechanical drawing 1, 2 and 4. The only vocational shops are advanced automobile and advanced machine shop. To gain admission to these classes a pupil must have taken industrial arts, auto or machine shop. Technical courses in electric theory and machine shop are also taught. While some shops make students proj- ects, others, such as the vocational and tech- nical shops do actual work on real cars and in machine work. To teach vocational or technical work a teacher must have had several years in that field of work. As a result North has only the best of teachers in its shops.