Johnstown High School - Spectator Yearbook (Johnstown, PA)

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Acmes B Heary Josephine A. Younc LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT The Post-War era will bring a need for people who have a knowledge of either French, Spanish, German, Italian or other European languages. If a student has taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the Foreign Language Department, he should be able to speak and write at least one of these important languages. In a language course, one not only learns to speak and translate a foreign tongue, but he be- comes acquainted with details of interest concern- ing that particular country. One division of the course consists of reading Caesar, Cicero, and the Aeneid of Virgil. French pupils read Vic- tor Hugo's Les Miserables plus short French stories and essays. In the Spanish classes, the ad- ventures of Cortez in Mexico are translated, while German and Italian students enjoy the literature belonging to their native land. SCIENCE DEPARTMENT 'T' o k Mim John McHugh Chairman Ellsworth Kunkle In the service at the U. S. Navy

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DEPARTMENT Some of the shops are located in the junior high schools, and the entire first floor of our school is composed of shops. All the shops give the boys a knowledge of the type of work they must do when they enter the field of industry. Although the instructors of the Vocational De- partment are not given lime-light recognition, the results of their direction is obvious, as we watch trained boys go into various defense occupations.

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Louise Kunkle Sophia Moiles Nettie M. Showers SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Fascinating and mysterious are the new worlds that are opening for us. As the citizens of the Post-War era we shall see wonders not even envisioned by our parents. Perhaps this minute in a great white laboratory a cloudy liquid is being poured into a test tube, a cloudy liquid that spells defeat for our constant enemy, disease. A physicist turns a switch and a complex machine is born. But behind that simple clicking of a switch lie years of study and research, years which seem centuries until suddenly success comes. Then the patient hours of trial and error start again. In high school future scientists learn the basic principles of biology, chemistry, physics, physiology and physiography. Study of theories and practical experiments aid the student in a better understanding of the new era which will follow our troubled times. He will be fitted for this new life where he will walk free of the fear and superstition which the calm methodical hand of science is gradually eliminating.