Greater Latrobe High School - Latrobean Yearbook (Latrobe, PA)

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Habits, Attitudes, and Knowledge... PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS, HEALTH, AND GYM CONSTITUTE THREE GUARDIANS OF HEALTH Introducing . . . Latrobe High School's . . . three unchained guardians of health . . . physical ex- aminations . . . health classes . . . and gymnastics. Who can ever forget . . . Dr. Bell's . . . Open your mouth wide . . . or the open minded health class discussions . . . or a bi-weekly run around the gym? Throughout the year . . . gym classes . . . held twice a week . . . prove to be outstanding . . . in the school's curriculum . . . Boys maintain more vig- orous classes . . . than the girls . . . Fall sees foot- ball . . . and much time is devoted to this . . . in the gym classes . . . Toss it in Jim. ah! it hit the ceiling . . . and basketball reigns supreme . . . for everyone interested. Standing on their hands . . . tumbling across mats . . . maneuvering on the parallel bars . . . var- ied and interesting is the gymnastic work . . . done in the late winter and spring . . . Golf claims many classes . . . as a merry fore . . . rings through the gym . . . Others take to boxing . . . volley ball . . . Lenz. Snyder, Donnelly. Bell. and Weed ball' while . . . physical activity . . . The steady . . . one, Girls' gym classes . . . although less strenuous . . . give assurance . . . of a healthy condition . . . for both body and mind . . . Twice each Week . . . two, three . . . one. two, three . . . beats out the rhythm . . . for the regular exercises . . . instituted to develop co-ordination . . . grace . . . and everv girl . . . spends forty minutes . . . in worth- ' ' ' ' good posture. A 4 Other than exercises . . . girls do work on the mats . . . on the horse . . . and the parallel bar . . . A large part . . . of the winter . . . is spent in play- ing basketball . . . and many shrieks . . . pierce the air , . . Girls engage . . . in fast-moving games . . . of volley ball-and some even attempt golf . . . Some of the more robust . . . try a hand at boxing . . . while many play hockey. According to state requirements . . . every stu- dent . . . takes one period of health each week . . . Regular courses of study . . . are prepared . . . and the student . , . is acquainted . . . with a general knowledge of the physical body . . . and the means of being healthy . . . Problems related . . . to both body and mind . . . are discussed . . . in the regular health period. Prevent . . . rather than cure . . . is stressed . . . with the annual . . . physical examination . . . by the school doctor . . . W. S. Hell . . . Each stu- dent is examined for defects ot' the heart . . . eyes . . . ears . . . and tonsils. . . . and reports are sent to parents . . . The school nurse . . . Florence Lenz . . . aids in all illnesses . . . and their correction. Dr. W. S. Bell. and school nurse. Miss Lenz. go over student health records. A typical scene of boys' gym classes

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X Plus Y equals Parlez-vous Francais I Hamilton. Upper: Reeping, Gibson. Lower: Breeton, Whiting. LANGUAGE AND MATHEMATICS TEACHERS FACE PROBLEMATIC SITUATICDNS DAILY IN CLASSES With the pleasant little thrill of anticipation . . . at the prospect of someday . . . perhaps meeting . . . or npaybe speaking . . . to a true to life Frenchman . . . mustache, gestures, and all . . . a Roman consul . . . or one of Caesar's descendants . . . freshmen . . . sophomores . . . juniors . . . and seniors . . . diligently assume the study of foreign languages . . . French . . . and Latin. Corrprenez-vous la lecon pour demain? . . . ques- tions Miss Gibson . . . after having specified that a vocabulary test . . . would follow the translation. . . . She glances around the room . . . and her eyes rest on someone's hand . . . waving in the air. Yes, . . . accomplished. . . . to make the native Frenchman envious and Cicero or Caesar proud . . . of the work which they have Mathematics too . . . treating with all sorts of shapes . . . and sizes . . . addition . . subtraction . . . multiplication . . . division . . . and factoring Algebra . . . three years Cif desiredj . geometlx . . . plane and solid . . . and arithmetic. Miss Hamilton . . . genially explains that Triangles with the sides respectively equal are con gruent . . . to a class of junior students While Miss Whiting . . . devotes her time to solid geometu and seniors . . . and the three grades of algebra Will you please repeat the assignment? . . . I didn't P1'0fl'C and loss - - - principal and iUf9l'eSt HH get it. Such are the problematic situations which the general forms Of mathematics -- find MISS Bree arise . . . to confront a teacher of French. ton on hand . . . to do a little necessary . explain Miss Reeping . . . Latin instructor . . . meets iflg and iIll1SfTatiHg- problems of the same type. Caesar's Gallic Wars . . . with that familiar opening . . . Gallia est divisa in partes tres . . . Cicero . . . declensions . . . conju- gations . . . rules . . . comparisons . . . and other Latin requirements . . . play an important part in every Latin student's career. After passing through two years of French . . . and four years of Latin . . . any student is prepared Juniors diligently study the intricasies of plain geom- etry- 11 9:4

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V. QM Friends, lend me your ears... s SHAKESPEARE PLAYS HAVOC IN EN G L I S H Thomson, Osborne, Dovey, Miller, Lafferty, Benford, McBride. With Shakespeare generally running havoc . . . throughout the four-year course . . . and Scott . . . Milton . . . Poe . . . Benjamin Franklin . . . and several others . . . playing the parts of contempora- ries . . . English includes students . . . from fresh- man to seniors . . . and from seniors to freshmen . . . not missing anyone. The verdant first year student . . . and his Her- man's blue book . . . or his Ivanhoe . . . or per- haps Homer's Odyssey . . . is the primary unit of the English class . . . Incidentally . . . the best parts of Fianklin's philosophies . . . are also digested in the freshman year. Silas Marner is by far . . . the most popular of the classics studied . . . in the sophomore class . . . As You Like It . . . The Making of an American . . . and the Oregon Trail . . . however, all prove very popular. With the junior year . . . come those ever-favor- ite one-act plays and short stories . . . while the Shakespearean classic . . . for this year . . . is The Merchant of Venice. And then that memorable senior year . . . that year of Woolley's handbook . . . of thesis . . . of let- ters . . . and compositions . . . approaches. Here at last there is . . . ample and frequent opportunity . . . for display of talent . . . in dramatics fthe board of Avon would have been pleased with many Lords and Ladies Macbethb. . . in writing . . . in speaking . . . in expression and in art. Literature, however, is only the gilded edge . . . cf the English course . . . the basis . . . consists of the usual study . . . of words . . . of phrases . . . of paragraphs . . . and of rules. Shakespearean classics attract students to undisturbed work. Projects also play an important part . . . in the English student's career . . . these range from me- chanical constructions . . . to literary creations . . . of the greatest originality and ingenuity . . . note- books, for some reason or another . . . generally pre- dominate in a project display. The seniors . . . under the guidance of Miss Maud Miller and Miss Martha Osborne . . . have their final opportunity . . . for acquiring knowledge . . . of the various essential details . . . which social life will soon require of them. Mr. Dovey . . . Mr. Benford . . . Miss Lafferty . . . Mr. Thompson . . . Miss Netzlof . . . Miss Mc- Bride . . . instill the fundamentals . . . of this course . . . into the other three classes.