Fostoria High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Fostoria, OH)

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Miss DOSTER Miss GRAHAM MR. MORRIS MR. MORGAN MR. WEST Vocational Department The Home Economics Department offers practical courses applicable to the home. The work in foods is done from the meal planning basis. Suitable dishes and foods are prepared and served for each meal. Especial importance is placed on dietetics and nutrition. In textiles, garments suit- able and practical for each individual girl have been planned and constructed. House planning as well is studied through helping the girls to make their own rooms more attractive and personal. The aim of industrial arts is to train the hand as well as the mind. In shop work a boy has the opportunity to work out his own ideas in a material project. In doing this he is able to see the correla- tion between school work and the work of industry. The curriculum is so arranged so that intensive training is given in wood- work and mechanical drawing. The senior students in the vocational printing department work in various printing shops in town on alternate weeks, thus correlating theory with shop practice. Mr. Morris, instructor of shop work has been with this department since it started and Mr. Morgan, teacher of related sub- jects, came to us this year. Twenty-Four

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The Commercial and Art Departments Those in charge in the commercial de- partment look upon the courses offered as having a high cultural as well as utilitarian value, and hence they try to stress both phases of the work rather than looking upon these courses simply as leading to a job. The practical value of accuracy and neatness are taken for granted in the teaching of all commercial courses. While the ability to understand and discuss the purposes and problems of business are more cultural objectives. It is the ambition of the commercial department to make its work of such caliber both as to quantity and quality that credits from this department will receive equal weight with credits from other de- partments towards college entrance in the not far distant future. Everyone has heard the phrase Art for Art's sake, but we of the high school art department know that our department is a bit more than just for art's sake. We are a practical group and we sometimes feel that we are a sort of service station as well as an art department. Students in the past have felt that they should not elect art unless they were unusually tal- ented, but many who are not highly gifted find that they can get a great deal of pleasure and profit from the course offered by conscientious application. Twenty-Three MR. KNEPPER Miss PLUMMER MRS. BUDAHN MRS. THOMPSON

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Physical Education The particular service that physical education must render is to provide for all, opportunities for participation in na- tural, wholesome forms of activity. Physical education is for the sake of mental and moral culture and not an end in itself. It is to make the intellect, feelings and will more vigorous, more sane, more supple, and more resourceful. The attainment of the ends of physical education implies not only control of the ends of physical environment of the child, but the deliberative formation of habits, the imparting of knowledge of hygeinev and the stimulation of the better ideals of physical efticiency. The school supplies, including the text books for the entire public school system are handled through the superintendents office, and the administration of these activities as well as the solution of the thousand and one problems that occur in the daily school routine falls to the secre- tary to the superentendent, Miss Cham- berlin. Mrs. Hess, the truant officer for the city and whose ofhce is in the high school building, is largely responsible for the high attendance rate that prevails in our schools. 1 l l l 1 Twenty-Five MR. HIRT MRS. CHAMBERLIN Miss HOSLER MRS. HESS