Deering High School - Amethyst Yearbook (Portland, ME)

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'T Secretaries in the making MR. RALPH B. YOUNG Commercial Dept. Head S'l'AI'l il ml DEGREE S Ralph B. Young, B.A., Colby, Ed.M., llarvard. Ethel I. Bradbury, Leavitt Normal, Shaw Business College. Nellie M. Dearborn, B.A., Colby, B.S.S., Boston University. Bernice S. True, Bay Path Institute. Esther J, Tyler, B,S, in Ed., Boston Left to right: Miss True, Miss Bradbury, Mr. Young, Miss Tyler, Vniversity. Miss Dearborn. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The Commercial Department has a four year course which prepares stu- dents for positions in the business world. One now receives Typing, Short- hand, Bookkeeping, and other subjects pertaining to business in this course. Mr. Ralph Young, our Sub-Master, also finds time to run this department, whose other teachers are: Miss Tyler, Miss Bradbury, Miss True, and Miss Dearborn. Below: Miss Dearborn carries on despite the fact that the empty seats belong to juniors who were taking a test that day

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What! Another poster? H Miss JULIA M. SEABURY A rt Instrzwtoi' STAFF and DFZGREICS .Inlin M, Seahury. Portland School ot Fine Arts. Left to right: The ojicers of this year's art club are: Nancy Grenet, secretaryg Donald Axelsen, treasnrerg Nancy Kitchen, presi- dent: Philip Young, chairman of executive committeeg Lois Hunter, vice-president. Below : ART DEPARTMENT The art students of Deering have made good use of their talents, winning a national award in 1945, and a first rating prize in a state contest in 1946. Miss Julia Seabury, a graduate of the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Portland, has been the art teacher at Deering for twenty years. It has been through the excellent work of Miss Seabury that Deering has sent many students on to future success in the field of art. M1:88 Seaburyfs students take a moment off from poster painting to do some 'real honest art we 5

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then add the white of an egg and . . . MISS C. FERNE Ross Home Economics Dept. Head STAFF and DEGREE S C. Ferne Ross. B.S., U. of Maine. Mrs. Linwood Card, B.S., U. of Maine. Helen Wyman, Boston School of Do- mestic Science. Left to right: Miss Ross, Miss Wyman, Miss Card HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT The Home Economics Department offers a variety of courses for future wives and homemakers. Headed by Miss C. Ferne Ross, the curriculum includes Nutrition, Homemaking, Interior Decorating, Advanced Clothing, Family Relations, Pre-Nursing, Advanced Foods, and Child Care. All of the courses are for upper classmeng however, two half-year freshman courses are offered: Freshman Clothing and Freshman Foods. Other teachers in this department are Mrs. Card and Miss Wyman. Below: Miss Ross supervises spud peeling while one of her charges steals a look at the camera