Attica High School - Torch Yearbook (Attica, NY)

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Class Cf 1960 Standing at the doorway to the world, the Seniors will soon find themselves taking up their caps and gowns, and then lgying them aside to take their positions in the world beyond high school. Luck to them, as they near the end of one career, and start another. 23

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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

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P R I N C I P A L'S M E S S A G E Now that the new high school building program has been completed and new, modern facilities are available for the grades seven through twelve, our thoughts are directed to the improvement of the quality of our school programs. Students are aware, in an increasing degree, that several different programs are availakle for study in a school of today. These offerings are made available to satisfy the needs of students who have different abilities, opportunities, and objectives. It is our purpose at Attica, to develop the kinds of programs that will offer an opportunity for a student to do the best work of which he is capable in the field of study that he may choose. For that reason, the new building has provided teaching rooms and laboratories for the academic subjects and special rooms for com ercial subjects, vocational agriculture and homemaking, and industrial arts. Our plans, during the next few years, will be aimed at the improvement of the quality of instruction in each of these areas. ' The requirements for graduation have been increased to 18 units, effective for the class of 1961. We plan to utilize this new requirement by increasing our course offerings in mathematics, foreign languages, history, and science courses. Thus, we will be able to meet this new demand and, at the same time, provide for our students, a wider range of subjects and a deeper experience in the various courses. Our measures of success will be determined by the quality of our teaching and the resulting quality of our graduates. Gia fag