Academy High School - Academe Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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Favorite Funds The students of Academy may look with pride upon their cafeteria, the largest and one of the best maintained ln the city's school system. Heading the cafeteria staff is Miss E. Fields. She and her co-workers prepare hundreds of meals each day, turning out a staggering amount of pies, salads, and other dishes. An average daily output includes as many as l00 pies C600 piecesl and 300 salads. Each day sees l5 gallons, or approximately 240 bowls of soup, being carried away on cafeteria trays. Statistics show that the daily consump- tion of potatoes averages six bushels, and of milk, 900 half pints. 6027 of these bottles are chocolate, the favorite. Fruit and vegetable juices are not very popular, only l75 glasses a day being sold. Seven hundred twenty people buy a roll every day. Five hundred sixty students buy ice cream, and four hundred eighty buy ice cream suckers. lce cream is the most popular food served, totaling l040 pieces a day, or 5200 in one week. '-omval The favorite among the more substantial dishes is weiners. The usual daily sale of hot dogs is over l800, 49422 with mustard, 492, with catsup, and SQQ plain. A realization of the work necessary to prepare meals for some two thousand people daily should help the students of Academy appreciate the fine service they are really getting. lt should go far in bringing better order and courtesy to the cafeteria. Gafeteria hines One of the situations most criticized by Academy students is the long cafeteria lines. Complaints are made to the effect that waiting to reach the counters often takes much more time than the pupils believe necessary. To relieve this unfavorable situation, students are asked to follow a few simple rules: Do not run from the classroom to the cafeteria, go to the end of the line-do not sneak in with a friend nearer the front. Go at YQUR scheduled lunch period. The only way to solve this problem of ex- cessive waiting is to co-operate fully with the other students and the teachers maintaining cafeteria order.

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Requirements for Graduation 1. Minimum of thirteen units C130 creditsb in the lOth, llth, and l2th grades. 2. Of these thirteen units, nine must be in three-year and two-year sequences. Three three-year sequences or one three-year sequence with three two-year sequences meet this requirement. 3. Required subjects: Cal English every semester through English 8. A. Business English may be substituted for English 'Y or English 8. B. A pupil may graduate having completed English 6. Cbb Two years of social studies including United States History or Problems of Democracy. CCD Physical Education through tenth grade. The requirements for graduation are made known to boys and girls as soon as they are allowed to make their own choice regarding the subjects they wish to take. At the same time, students are urged to try to select the field of work which they will pursue after leaving school. lf such a choice is made there is no effort wasted in shopping around for classes. Everyone knows the student who is working his way through college, but how many know the student who is working his way through high school? Though many people are not aware of it, hundreds of students are doing just this thing in schools all over the country. The N.Y.A., or National Youth Adminis- tration, is a government agency set up to aid those students who would be unable to secure a good education without some financial help. lt is designed to find or create suitable employment for younger people, proving salaries which, although small, often mean the difference between wasted abilities and a useful career. Academy, through the N.Y.A. program, offers many opportunities to needy pupils. A large percentage of these are employed by members of the faculty, to correct papers, keep reports, and run errands. Most of the others Work in the cafeteria. The boys run the ice cream counters, bring clean trays and dishes to the center aisle, and empty used trays. The girls who work in the cafeteria man- age the candy counter and prepare some of the simpler items on the daily menu. They are fortunate in securing work of this type, which gives invaluable experience in meal planning and food preparation. The assistance the N.Y.A. can offer is necessarily limited, but the result of this help is a finer, more democratic America. Through the efforts of this agency, intelligent students all over the nation, who otherwise would be forced to leave school at an early age, are able to secure as fine an education as money can buy. A score or more of Academy's people have been able to graduate, and will perhaps go on to college, with the help of the N.Y.A. They have been able to partici- pate in the schcol's activities as much as any other student. They have earned their way through school, and as members of Academy High earned the right to own this Academe, and to belong to all of the clubs and organi- zations on the following pages. Ten

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Illuh Program The club program is a relatively new idea in the Public School System of Erie, as it was just five years ago that Academy High School inaugurated its first year of clubs. The man who had a great part in founding the club program at Academy was our former principal, C. W. McNary, who is the present Assistant superintendent of Schools. He appointed Mr. Howard Kelly to supervise the clubs in l9f-37. Mr. Kelly in turn named Mr. Tohn Leamy as new head of the Club program in l94O. The club program was generally re- organized in l94l for the purpose of em- phasizing the activities of the lunior High. The clubs of Academy have proved to be extremely successful, as can be evidenced by the overwhelming enthusiasm which most of the students have shown. A club program in a modern high school has many reasons for its existence. Possibly one of the more important reasons is in the fact that a club presents a form of learning that could not otherwise take place in the average classroom. In a club, the pupil and the teacher function as fellow workers. Many times the pupil can offer information and personal experiences to the club which are sometimes as new to the teacher as to the pupil. The more intimate contact with the teacher engenders a higher morale and a finer school spirit. The atmosphere of the club is less re- strained and more informal than in the class- room. The pupil is striving to learn because he Wants to, not because certain things are required of him. The student is not constantly worrying about what mark he will receive at the end of the school year, which as a result arouses his interest to a higher degree. It has been found that the club system greatly improves the class work of the average student. A club helps to educate the pupil in the art of doing thingsg it often brings out a student's particular abilities, and assists him in finding himself. The poorer student and the timid student in the classroom are encouraged to partici- pate in the various activities of the club. A club helps to give the student self reliance. lt demands the initiative of each student. The club assists students in developing the qualities of leadership and it gives the pupil a chance to hold a responsible position in the governing body of the club. It gives the pupils and teachers a pleasant form of recreation and relaxation from their daily round of study. Probably one of the greatest benefits the student acquires from clubs, is learning to mingle with other people which usually results in the forming of rich friendships, and provides the community with a better citizen, a person who through his companionship with other people is better able to adapt himself to the society in which he lives. Twelve