Casa Grande Union High School - Cougar Yearbook (Casa Grande, AZ)

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 -■ 4 ,J f-hK -• 1 £js®s ' - ... m 'A2j4 k. E 2L--------TEstar.. inoustriai arjs apartment The primary purpose of education is to ae. Jbp yvfcwg. people into happy, useful, successful citizens, Citi- zenship involves the possession of certain desirable ideals, attitudes, habits, and accomplishments. It is toward the development of these that our efforts mustbe directed. The purpose we have as teachers is to bring about these favorable changes in the individual pupil. Industrial arts work is justified, not because the objectives of the industrial arts differ from those of general education, but because experiences provided through industrial arts work offer a more effective and more economical means of developing these desirable ob- jectives, which we recognize as aims of educational ef- fort . Thus we find industrial arts further education through ability to meet certain objectives in a better, more economical way than most academic subjects.

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HOME ECONOMICS DEPT-. There are about seventy-five students enrolled in the heme economics department. This year the course has been enlarged to include not only homemaking I, II, and III for girls, but also an applied science course for boys. Home economics can no longer rightfully be called cooking and sewing. Changes in the home made it necess- ary to broaden the experience of the high school girl and offer work in home management, child development, consumer's buying, family and human relationships, and interior decoration Our department has tried to meet these obligations, and we feel that we have accomplished our objectives to a great extent.

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MATHEMATICS The mathematics department offers courses in begin- ning and advanced algebra, practical mathematics, plane and solid geometry. Practical mathematics, a comparatively new course here, deals with business and domestic problems. Much practice is given in the every day use of graphs, which are also studied in connection with economic and statis- tical backgrounds. The courses are taught by G. Max and W. Turner. I I BRA P. Y The scene in the library is usually a busy one. The harried librarian seems to possess eight arms as she reaches from the shelves the books called for--novels, biographies, hi.stories. The school is very proud of the library, which dur- ing the past year bought several hundred books, sub- scribed to fifteen magazines, and filled the reference shelves with two complete new sets of encyclopedias. This group was augmented by gifts from local clubs. Other added features are: a built-in counter, a re- vised checking system, and a new filing plan.