Attica High School - Torch Yearbook (Attica, NY)

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Miss Mary Lou Wolfley, Girl's Physical Education. Mr. Edward Schreiber, Jr., Boy's.Phvs1cal Education Mr. Raymond Southard, Boy's PfLVS1C31 Edllcaf-1011 PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Showers!!! The battle cry of Coach rings out and echoes among the rafters of the huge, new gym, as the students drop the basket- balls and race for the locker room. The Physical Education teachers won a long, hard battle this year when we moved into the new school. Now we don't have to go 'tn our next class dripping sweat. Now its a oool, clean athlete who emerges from the locker room after class. Also this year we have, added to the previous teacher squad, a Girl 's Physical Educa- tion teacher. Miss Wolfley's arrival has changed a lot of things. The gir1's locker room is now supervised, and we modest girls are now at ease in a gym suit. The boys are still in the capable hands of Mr. Schreiber and Mr. Southard, and even Mr. Davies got in the act during the football season. Our Athletics Department is now most complete and adequate for the times. , X!

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.L .A INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT Our new building was built for utility, as well as books. You can see this when you study the floor plan. You will notice that three rain wings extend off the lobby. These are the Senior High wing, the Junior High wing, and the Noisy wing. In this last one are found, of course, the noisy activities: music, physical education, agriculture, and industrial arts. In the shop have been placed lathes, sanders, and all types of saws, all for the benefit of those who are adept in making things with tools and their hands This is Mr. Frank's domain. Here he brings out the talents of his students, and shows how these talents may be used. Also this year, Mr. Frank has been working on the finishing of the case for the electronic organ which was bought with the proceeds of the Organ Ftmd. It will be a beautiful addition to the auditorium. LIBRARY DEPARTMENT This year it is not uncoxmnon to see Mrs. I-iartle running around in an apron. She has good reason to. In the Library is a place where she can really do a good repair job on damaged books. The Library has many new features. The books are the same but oh, the surroundings are so different! There are big tables, little tables, round tables, comfortable chairs, and noiseless cork floors. The Library is really the quiet room of the school, kept expressly for reading and doing reference work. 20

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SCHOOL TOUR It may be that you haven't been through the new school building. If not, just follow us. We are looking through the eyes of a new freshmen and seeing what he would see when he enters the building. Perhaps to follow us better you could refer to the floor plan featured between the end pages. Happy touring! As we enter the building, coming through one of the six front doors, we enter the lobby. After removing our boots, which is a prime requisite for anyone entering the building, we are ready for our tour. To our right we see the cafeteria, and across the lobby are the doors to the auditorium. But we will see these all in good time, so we continue to our left, and turn down the Senior high wing. We pass, in order, the Library Work Room, the General Office, the Principal's Office, the main Library doors, and the Health and Guidance Center. Then, after the Conference Room and rest rooms, begins a line of about eleven classrooms of the Senior high. In them are taught subjects like history, math, languages, business, and Ehglish. The walls are completely lined with the metal combination lockers in which students keep their books a.nd coats. Retracing our steps and turning left again when we reach the lobby, we enter the Junior high wing and pass a few storage rooms, the Women's room and the Women's Physical Education Office before reaching the actual classrooms. The next three rooms to the left make up the homemaking suite. It includes a laundry, sewing room, and fully equiped kitchen. The, before reaching the first exits on this wing, we pass the Art room and mre rest- rooms. In the line of Juni-or high homerooms and classrooms which take up the wing from here east, we find the Science suite. In these three rooms all the science classes are conducted. They are equipped with lab stations, gas chemicals, and enough other scientific equipment to keep the students happy for quite a while. Returning to the lobby, we again are directed to the left, and walk down a seemingly empty corridor. In actuality it runs down between the gymnasium and auditorium and leads to the noisy wingau There are two doors into the gym, one into the auditorium, one onto the stage, and more small storage rooms. At the next corner we turn right again, and enter the wing which began as an idea in the architects head, was carried out by the con- tractors, and is now proving its usefulness. This is, as is stated above, the noisy wing. It houses all the machines, Physical Education Department, and Agricultural Department and Music Department, and keeps them separarted from the classrooms and areas in which studying is going on. The boiler rooms and janitor's room is back here, as are the Industrial Shop, all the music rooms, and the gymna- sium. The whole set up is proving to be a very successful one. Now we re-enter the lobby and begin the last leg of our tour, which includes the auditorium and the kitchen. The auditorium is beautiful with its persimmon front drapes, many backdrops on stage, its stylish yet acoustically perfect interior, and rows upon rows of blue seats. The kitchen is the pride and joy of our cooks, with all its different machines and facilities for preparing our meals. This brings us back to the front door, where we replace our boots and step outside, where we can get a look at the building as a whole. It was built for efficient education, and that is exactly what it is being used for. 22