Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Cloclczvise: McCulloch, Mc- K' I P t 'df . Eb t in ey, ar ri ge el' s. McDonald, Schenk, Bchrman. ,V Fl,0RA DVNN JEAN MCCULLOCH Mathematics Df711H7'tlIlP7lt Hffarl Home Economics Depwrtmwnt Head has shown a decided increase in enrollment dur' ing the past year. For those interested in speakf ing the languages of other people, the department offers four year courses in French, Latin, and Spanish. German may be studied for three years. Four gymnasium periods and one hygiene hour form the weekly program for those enrolled in the Girls' Physical Education department. On the hygiene day subjects are discussed relating to personality, and charm. The other days may be occupied by engaging in one of the variety of sports offered: Speedball, basketball, volleyball, and baseball. One day during the Week is free, and the girls may play table tennis, badminton, or tennis with the valuable equipment provided for this use. During the year one new teacher, Miss Thorpe, has been added to the staif of Mrs. Fricke, department head. The Fairfax Home Economics department, far NIATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT ,MQ Standing: Walsh, Thielen, Frederics, Brown. Seated: Allen, Dunn, Bowes, Marks. g-. U 5 Q'

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Reminiscent of his Harvard track days is the efficient and speedy manner in which H. L. God' dard administers the English department, largest in the school. So great is the work of this secf tion that teachers from Mathematics, Social Studies, and Foreign Language have been needed to augment the regular department teachers. As a department project the Creative Writing Year' book is published, embodying the best literary eff forts of the English classes. In the lower grades a set program of courses is taught, but those of the upper grades are offered a wide variety of electives from which to choose. In the future English will tend toward the general developf ment of offering an even wider range of elective subjects. Under the leadership of expert linguist Miss Way, whose repertoire includes four differ' ent languages, the Foreign Language department FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTNIENT Standing: James, Way Aiken, Ringle, Reeve, Roalfe Seated: Hart, McLure. HENRIETTA WAY BETSY FRICKE Foreign Language Girls' Physical Education Department Head Department Head Guns' P11Ys1cAL EDUCATION DEPARTMEN T Pa 1' s on s, Thorpe, Fricke, Sprague, Delan ey, Whiting. 14

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from being the usual stronghold of the weaker sex, is now including a large number of boys in its enrollment. A great part of these are en' rolled in the Boys' Foods classes which are find' ing great favor among the males this year. Home Economics also offers mixed classes in Social Arts, mainly for Senior students, which proved so popular that three crowded classes are not suff licient to accommodate those who desire the course. As an afterfschool voluntary meeting, the boys and girls of the Social Arts classes may congregate once a week as a dancing club in gymnasium. Of the usual female classes, millinf ery appears to be the most popular of the house' hold arts offered by Miss McCulloch, head of this department and former municipal camp dif rector. Three full classes of nonfvocational milf linery are now being taught. The Mathematics department, under the dif MECIITXNICAL ARTS DEPARTMENT Lee, Bultman, Carvill, Gus- tavuson, Burk. G. G. Ll-:E FLOY Bowan Mathematics Department Mechanical Arts Deyzartnzent Head Head MUSIC DEPARTMENT Bower, Horton, Rice, Mc- Laughlin. 16