Eastern High School - Lantern Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT What shall we eat? What shall we wear? These are lmportant questlons Such they have always been and probably always wlll be Those who take Home Economlcs courses Fmd the answers to them They learn to select and serve the foods that sclence has proved most b9I'l8HCl3l They learn t make and choose clothes that best fit thelr partlcular type The home IS the greatest and most powerful lnstltutlon In any country Those who have as thelr duty the keep mg of It cannot be too well versed m knowledge that llghtens the tasks that makes for the fam 11ys best health and that causes domestlc lnfe to be happy and full of content At the request f many boys a semester of Home Economlcs for them was mtro duced The preparatlon of slmple meals the selectlon and care of clothmg and the makmg of the boy s own room more lxvable are lncluded in th1s course The Home Economrcs department has a Eve room model apartment where practlce ln the art of enter tammg and care of the home may be had Sclence and art golng hand ln hand w1th home makmg are promotmg better homes and a healthler natlon Lwmg Room m the Apartment I Page Twenty five l . O , - ' 1 v . 0 y 1 v , . v ' 1 v

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A Typlcal Laboratory I 89 SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The world is bullt upon sc1 ence Our l1v1ng revolves about t Its understandmg causes us to apprecxate the wonders close at hand It IS one of the most 1m portant factors 1n our l1fe In Eastern there are three large laboratorles a conservatory and several recitation rooms all equlpped ln the most modern man ner Mr Leach head of the de partment has done much towards 1ts progress Courses ln Botany and Zoology are popular wlth the Sophomores Physlology dlscusses the functxons of the body That dellghtful sub student wlth the composltlon and behavlor of many common thlngs In Physics the fundamental law, of force motlon and energy be sxdes the operatlon of machmes are taken up The sclentxfic studxes can be made both appealmg and mstruct xve at once In our sc ool through good teachers and operatlve puplls th1s IS accom pllshed I Page Twenty four 1 i . ' ject, Chemistry, acquaints the ' . h . , co-

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OHice Pfacuce' Room COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Buslly ln many thousands of offices Cl1Ck the typewrlters They play a great part m Amerxcan 11fe And swlftly do the fingers that operate them move upon the keys One must be tramed to a hxgh pomt of efhclency to occupy cler lcal posxtlons That IS the thmg that our commerclal department seeks to do Practice and expert ence greatest necessltles are gamed through close contact wlth real sltuatlons that requlre solv mg Eastern has an ofhce practlce suxte of four rooms well equlpped wlth hlmg dlctatmg calculatmg and adding machmes Another room IS devoted excluslvely to mlmeographmg and dupllcatmg and yet another to receptlon and consultatlon use For those Inter ested ln salesmanshlp there IS an exhlbltlon room of manufacturers products 1n whlch the student gams practlce m demonstratxng and sellxng Complete tramlng for those who wlsh to make stenogra phy thelr llfe work lS offered and they leave well equlpped to fill 1m portant places In the great modern offices I Page Twenty szx 1 ' v v ... ,