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

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--RET TO CLASSES COMMANDO COURSES in the boys' gym classes are conditioning our boys for the strenuous training they will encounter.-SQUARE DANCING, combined with marcliiug, is stressed in girls' gym classes to build coordination of mind, and body, and to develop quick response to directionsf ANNUAL CLINICAL examinations insure good health for defense jobs and pre-induction examina- tions. Doctor Sears is shown checking up on eyes and teeth which are important. ENGLISH CLASSES use library conference room for reference work. Discussions based on readings give pupils our reasons for entering war and ideas for post-war planning. Vocabulary work educates boys for preinductiou tests.-ALTHOITGH GERMAN is still taught as a cultural language, these boys know that it will be practical and useful in the post-war world.e'l'HESE FRENCH STUDENTS realize that they will have contact with French speaking Europeans and South Americans now and after the war.+LATIN Prepares pupils for the future by teaching straight thinking, systematic method of attack, logical arrangement of material and the founda- tion for other languages. his 'Wi , ' 10

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YEAR WITH - Mr. Croissant conducting class Mr. Johnson equipped to hunt Mr. Burnett choosing his lunch Mr. Haight deciding to walk Mr. Nichols demonstrating the devel- opment of a pattern Miss Weller and M1's. Johnston look- ing over antique glassware Mr. Roehm showing them how in laboratory Miss Fowler at Work in the Main Office Mr, Lalley totaling athletic bills In another share-the-ride group-- Miss Shattuck, Mrs. Calvert, Miss Quinn, Miss Malony, Miss Rieg, and Miss Kelly Miss Burdick and Miss Joyner dis- cussing the register Miss Donley keeping things quiet in study hall Mr. Butler in a Link trainer Miss McCarthy and Mrs. VVithers working against absenteeism Mrs. McCall and Miss Fox arriving at the main entrance Mrs. Earle on Star Miss Stoutenberg enjoying the sunshine Mrs, Perkins, Miss Dyer, and Mr. Dressler planning library work Mrs. Ordway displaying her catch Miss Shannon and Miss Conole smil- ing at the end of the day Mr. Merchant and Mrs. Kern mak- ing beautiful music Miss O'Connor and Miss Fassett do- ing their stint at the U. S. O. Miss Heffron and Miss Burke, home- ward bound. A list of the faculty by departments appears on page 66 9

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ART STUDENTS sent one hundred posters to convalescent soldiers at Christmas and Easter. Students also painted posters advertising everything from nutrition classes to war bonds.-BOARD XVORK in mathematics helps the pupils to become accurate in any field whether it is reading blue prints or drawing niaps.wSOCI.-XL STUDIES pupils follow events of the war on a globe, and study problems and solutions of other wars. This method enables them to solve better the problems of this war.-COMMERCIAL STUDENTS are being trained for wartime jobs. Typing and shorthand pupils are receiving special training in military terms and different tahulations. SCIENCE CLASSES stress experimental techniques. With an X-ray bulb as background, science classes are shown experimenting. Physics students are engaged in experiments on electro- magnetic induction and on force in the pulley system. In chemistry a student pours out a stock solution during a laboratory period. A demonstration of winds resulting from thermal and pres- sure gradients is given before an earth science class. 11