Springfield Senior High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Springfield, OH)

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Z ff! ?za7Za!a 7oz 1-fem? ,461 SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCH4 The Air Service Command of Patterson Field sent their rep- resentative to Springfield High School in March 1943, to present the possibility of installing vari-typing in this school. The commercial department accepted the offer and Springfield High School became the first and only high school in the United States to have a course in vari-typing. Thirty-five students worked at SHS last summer for ten Weeks on a project for the Air Service Command. At the end of this time they were transferred as a unit to the Air Service Command at Patterson Field. In January 194-4, twenty students graduated from this class and at least seventeen were recommended for positions at the Field, Another class will graduate in June 1944 from this course. Students enjoy this activity and there is a promise of larger classes to come. This course teaches not only vari-typing, but also editing, proof-reading, page and paste up, layout, and art Work. Vari- typing will be a help in post-War days because many busi- nesses will find it advantageous to use this machine instead of typewriters for various kinds of work.

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r. Harold Warfel Miss Gladys Leatherman Mr. A. B. Shaffer Mr. Ralph Stickford r. Charles Caldwell Mr. John Linn Mr. Frank lVlcKaig Mr, C, J, Kauffman SPRINGFIELD, OHIO . .1944 7n ?az'me A peculiar smell on the third floor identifies the chemistry laboratory, familiar to many Springfield High School stu- dents. Despite foul smelling mixtures produced in this laboratory, future scientists of America are learning the principles of chemistry. Amid batteries, ispectroscopes, and magnets are boys and girls of SHS learning physics facts and formulas. In the biology lab are students examining model ears and eyes, or studying bacteria with mic- roscopes. Congruent triangles, tangents, chords, and arcs-all these are seen on the blackboards in the rooms where geometry, the sophomore's nightmare, is taught. The Algebra student struggle to solve equations that stretch all around the blackboard. A maze of dots and dashes come from the rooms Where aeronautics stu- dents are attempting to gain proficiency in taking Morse Code. 'The teachers of the math department straighten out all these difficulties, so SHS girls and boys are able to take their place in mathe- matical positions.

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SPRINGFIELD, OHIO . .1944 Click, clack, click, is the sound that has issued from the typing rooms since the begining of Springfield High. Today the pace is more furious because the teachers must turn out many typists of the highest quality for the war effort in a minimum space of time. In order to turn out these typists, both the teachers and the students are giving their utmost to their respective jobs. Because of the cooperation between these, the time is drawing nearer when the work of the Four Freedoms will be realized. Miss Rachel Stewart Mr. Harold Eglinger Miss Mildred Bennett Mr. R. E. White Mr. Elmer Leffel Miss Helen Deaton Mr. M. L. Lacey Miss Frances Grube Miss Pearl Clifford Mrs. Helen Hickman Miss Cora Ullom Mr. George Ballentine William A. Walsh