Herbert Hoover High School - Scroll Yearbook (Glendale, CA)

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THE MECHANICAL ARTS DEPARTMENT includes five shops—auto shop, wood shop, sheetmetal shop, printshop (where Hoover's paper, the Purple Press, is printed), and mechanical and architectural drawing rooms. Vocational courses in automobile repair and in sheetmetal ore offered for seniors, gradu- ates, or persons over eighteen, all of whom must pass o mechanical aptitude test. In each shop students learn the fundamental processes involved and develop vocational skills which are of great value to them in later life. THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT has a variety of courses to accommodate every pupil. Algebra and plane geometry are the most popular. Trigonometry (the basis of survey- ing) and solid geometry (the study of cubes, spheres, and other solids) are also in demand. Other students may elect practical math, in which they study the cost of owning a car or a home and other problems that deal with insurance, taxes, and installment buying. MECHANICAL ARTS: Mr. Moreheod, Mr. Inslee; Mr. Froom, Mr. Lockwood, Mr. Usilton. Mr. Hanson, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Roemcr, Mr. Smith. MATHEMATICS: Mr. Stirwalt, Miss Wix, Miss McGrath; Mrs. Spry, Mrs. Miles. 23

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THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT offers courses such os bookkeeping, accounting, shorthand, and typing. Probably the latter courses are the most popular. The average commerce student, however, takes a well- rounded sequence of subjects designed to fit him for one of the many positions offered by American business, for the function of this department is to prepare students to take their places in today's commercial world that they may do their part in preserving and build- ing national economy and prosperity. THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT provides indispensable training to enable the individuals to solve the problems of the home. The subjects included are foods, clothing, home appreciation, practical homemaking, nutrition, costume-making, and boys' foods. A valuable contribution is the study of family relations, social usage, and personality as given in the social-living unit of the new senior problems course. Though the impor- tance of such subjects to the home is stressed, the courses may be taken as preparation for the continuance of studies in college. COMMERCE: Mr. Brown (Head), Miss Starr, Mr. Schir- mer. Miss Applegate, Mr. Lobe, Mrs. Brown, Miss Pollock. HOME ECONOMICS: Mrs. Richards (Head), Miss John- ston, Mrs. Blalock. 25