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

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The Business of Flying A Commercial course at North High of- fers four majors: clerical, bookkeeping, ste- nography and general business. Nine rooms and an ofiice are devoted to the department and the subjects taught are: introduction to business and commercial arithmetic, basic subjects, economic geography, typing, short- hand, law, economics, ofice practice, busi- ness machines, and bookkeeping. Over 1,000 students of North's 1500 are studying at least one, if not more, of these subjects, under a departmental faculty of 10 members. The equipment of the department is mod- ern and efficient. Valued at about 315,000 it includes 75 typewriters, four adding and listing machines, six calculators, two dupli- cating machines, two adding machines, and special bookkeeping desks. Seated: Miss Betsy Katz, Mrs. Anna Howell, Miss Lena Levene, Miss Katherine McCormack. Stand- ing: Miss Grace Pritchard, Miss jane Hurst, Mr. Charles Ellis, Miss Helen Malony, Miss Mabel June, Miss Genevieve Shattuck.

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A Seated: Mr. john Sasnik, Mr. Wlarren Taylor, head. Stand- ing: Mr. Donald Roehm, Mr. Joseph Vavra. Research-Theory and Applied North's scientifically minded students are greatly indebted to the group of teachers in the science department for interesting them in such a wide and varied field as science offers. To some, the odors issuing from the Chemistry laboratory at frequent inter- vals are a disagreeable nuisance. To those who are experimenting they mean success or failure. Chemistry is concerned with the changes that take place forming new substances through chemical reactions. However, the science department is not all concerned with chemistry. Another very interesting part is the study of physical geography. This is a science which treats of the natural features of the earth and their relation to life. It aims to show man his relation to and dependence upon the phenomena of nature. Still a third division of the science de- partment is that of physics. Equipped with a knowledge of this subject, you could cal- culate how much energy you expended in turning the pages of this yearbook.

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Northls Social Science Department covers Economic Citizenship, Ancient, Medieval and Modern History, and Economics. Be- tween 800 and 900 students go to Social Science classes daily. Social Science classes are important factors in the lives of North's students. The many phases of the subject help broaden the pu- pil's mind considerably. Throughout any course in Social Science one reads and studies what great minds all over the world have written. Therefore, Social Science is very .cultural because reading does not stop with the text books used in classrooms but spreads over a wide surface. Social Science tends to make the student more interested in Social and Civic affairs. Making Aviation History Seated: Miss Dorothy Tobias, Miss Elizabeth Shannon, Miss Gertrude O'Connor, Standing: Mi. Maxwell Space, Miss Mary M. Gillespie, Miss Lucy O'Hargan, Mr. George Crane. 25