Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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fcX x Alice M. Gocher Helen Lockard Mabel Overdorf Marian G. Varner Elizabeth S. Hoge autumn presents Chaucer; winter, Keats and By- ron; early spring, Shakespeare. By commence- ment time Walt Whitman brings us his magnifi- cent line I Hear America Singing. These are names worth remembering; these men and men like them have left us a heritage in their writings which is ours to appreciate. Each pupil, as he faces the world, must have a sense of values in order to live in the best way possible. Through the study of great men he learns the best that has been thought and said.

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Mary D. Glenn Chairman Gladys M. Bantley Jessie E. Canad ENGL I SH DEPARTMENT Elvina Jane Owen One department touching all through the school year is the English Department. Through its teachers we learn to appreciate the gentle beauty of poetry; to understand the conciseness of clear prose; and to write and speak correctly, so that we may gain the necessary confidence essential to an impressive public speaker. A most significant study coming under the supervision of the English Department is Ameri- can and English literature. In the senior year

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Clark Shaffer Alice Rutledge Blanche Rogers Carl Waugamah School Nurse PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Girls' and boys' gym classes, under the direction of Alice Rutledge, Clark Shaffer, and Carl Wauga- man are doing much toward the building of sound strong bodies by means of marching drills and body building exercises. Girls, as well as boys, take sin- cere interest in this kind of work because this train- ing proves invaluable to those who intend to enter the service in the near future. Because body and mind must coordinate in a healthy individual, the physical education depart- ment offers the necessary training for a completely healthy person. Johnstown High School has a well- equipped gymnasium to meet the various needs of an interested student. Certainly such preparation, in the way of a com- pulsory physical education program, will aid those who will need strong bodies and minds to face the future.