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

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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

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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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l4lLI1lt I'RIf'lTY S'I'l'lDl1lN'l'S test a single Wound induction motor as a part of their extensive training to fit them for work in the services of any electrical war en1ploy1nent.f-0'l'HER ELEV- TRICAL students are working on a double wound induction motor. Electric students will be well trained to take their place in the electric world of ton1orrow.fPRlN'!' SHOP teaches its students to set type and other essentials of printing hooks und papers.fl'Rli-l LlGH'1' BOYS work on an engine in order to become well acqtiaiiitf-tl with their planes. They are being trained to enter thc air corps imniediately upon graduation. SEWING ULASSES keep vocational auto shop service flag up to date. Girls are learning to remodel pre-war clothes and to buy wisely.e-f'l'HlflSl+l SENIORS are illustrating correct table eti- quette. Girls are taught to use ration points Wisely in planning well-balanced meals.fFL'TURE PRINTERS are pictured below. Now open to girls, pre-flight, tool-handling, and lrlucprint-read- ing classes give them experience and prepare them for essential war work. 12 fl E v n 2 E