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

Page 23 text:

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.

Page 22 text:

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

Page 24 text:

Languages taught at North High are French, German and Latin. There are two French teachers in North High's French de- partment, Mr. Clarence Hammond and Mrs. Esther Bourdon. Together they teach 175 academic and college course students the three years of French including Grammar, Literature and History. Miss Lazetta Gehm is the only German She teaches her 75 teacher in North High. students the Grammar, History and Litera- ture of that language. The Latin Department consists of three teachers, Miss Kathryn O. Lundy, Miss Ellen Mangan and Mrs. Georgia McCall, who teach about 175 Latin students from the col- lege and academic courses. Miss Lundy has all 1B's in North each morning, leaving us to go to Central every afternoon. Miss Mangan has second and third year students and Mrs. McCall teaches second, third and fourth year students. Standing: Mrs. Georgia McCall, Miss Katherine O. Lundy, Miss La- zetta Gehm. Seated: Mrs. Esther Bourdon, Mr. Clarence Hammond, Miss Ellen Mangan. Contacting Foreign Ports ,,Aawae5.N WM mn x'fW75PhWi 22