Jefferson High School - Spectrum Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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Household Arts Different courses are now given in household arts. To every freshman girl for. her first year is given a course in Family Life. The purpose of this subject is to acquaint the girl with managing a home and the problems arising. It includes money manage- ment, time management, and clothing and food problems. In general, problems of family and social relationships are studied. Home nursing and managing the home front are given to fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth term girls. In home nursing, girls learn to carry out a doctor’s instructions and give care to patients ill at home. Managing the home front consists of studying prob- lems of buying, rationing, and conservation in war time. To the seventh and eighth term girls are offered Production Sewing for Red Cross, Canteen Aide, and Nursery School Aide courses. Making garments for Red Cross on factory basis is done in Production Sewing. No personal sewing is done. Credit is given for one term of Canteen Aide in which a girl is shown how to assist in a mass feeding program of Red Cross Canteen. This includes planning meals, and ordering, buying, preparing, and serving food. To serve as voluntary or paid workers in nursery school is presented the girls in Nursery School Aide. Art The art department has also turned to the Victory Corps in that blue print reading has come into existence. The fundamentals—form, color, and design—are studied, then are put to practical use. The posters seen about school for war bonds sale and the Red Cross as well as other posters were made by the art department.

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Military English Military English is a new course which has been created by the adoption of the Victory Corps. This subject is required of all senior students who are in the Air and Sea divisions of the Corps, and it is recommended for any student who hopes to train to be an officer. Information is given concerning opportunities in all the armed forces and requisites for candidates for officers' training. Army terms and insignia are studied, as well as literature of current and military interest. Correct English is a very basic need in all speech making and writing; the student readily sees and understands that he is better able to serve his country effectively if he can read, speak, and write intelligently. Commissioned and non-commissioned officers, chosen by class members, direct military procedures and arrange outstanding class programs. Sound film ; recently re- leased by the War Department are shown twice a month, a warrant officer from each class being responsible for the operation of the machine. Inspiring talks by ex-Jefferson students home on leave from the Armed Services prove one of the greatest sources of interest and information. An informed America is an invincible America —and that is what the seniors are being offered in a course in Military English, taught by Mrs. Smith. Languages at War Languages play an important part in today's war. Without the study of language the boys in the service are having difficulty in foreign countries now. Government needs for a knowledge of a foreign language are in Military and Naval Intelligence, F.B.I., Censorship Bureau, Office of War Information, and many other bureaus. Lan- guages should not withdraw from prominence because certain peace time subjects are disappearing. Linguistic knowledge is at some times as essential to the buck private as his gun. These languages aid the stucs nts in better understanding of the English language, also. Students benefit by these languages as they come to understand the people, the habits, and the customs of these foreign lands. This draws America closer to these countries and aids in better relationships with one another. Therefore French, Spanish, German, and Latin are taught in Jefferson.

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y y Pre-Flight Training Learning to fly is one of the most important things being done today by American youth in the global war. A course in pre-flight aviation has been added to the mathe- matics classes due to the Victory Corps. The other math classes are working for more useful applications. Included in this pre-flight course are the more technical uses of mathematics. The Navy requires much math such as this new subject gives. Range finding, navigation, prediction of weather, navigation by dead reckoning, and other terms are studied. A student learns the theory of motors, aerodanamus, and the forces on a plane when in fight, and he is aided in Air Corps exams. Film strips are shown two and three times a week in order to demonstrate to the pupils and aid in their study. The other courses offered are algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, trigo- nometry, and business math. Machines and Electricity The physics courses of last term, science 7 and 8, have now been changed to two separate courses, the fundamentals of machines and fundamentals of electricity. In this way a whole term is devoted to each subject. Last term the study of heat was included in S7 and light and color in S8. However, this term these have been dropped so that more emphasis may be placed on machines and electricity. Next term the fundamentals of radio will be given. This will be a one year course. All three of these courses are outlines based on technical and field manuals of the War Department and published by it. Mr. Wood teaches these classes which are offered to fifth termers and above.