Auburn High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Auburn, NE)

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HOMECOMING ACTIVITIES gave the freshmen their first cardboard placard advertising the coming event. A faculty real chance to feel that they really ‘'belonged.” Each wore a committee selected the two best signs at convocation. Freshmen Take Year To Learn About AHS Each fall a new crop of “green” freshies enter the halls of AHS for the fret time, eager to learn all there is to know about high school life. They soon discover that their graduation four years hence will depend on the successful completion of at least 160 semester hours of work in the academic and vocational courses offered. Also, as their time and ability permits, they can take part in some of the special school activities such as music, dramatics, athletics, journalism, and club work. Since the freshman year is the basic year, the newcomers have less choice in their classes this year than any other. English, social studies, and math are required of all students. Those interested in the vocational subjects of homemaking, agriculture, and shop, start in these fields, while the remainder of the group takes general science as their fourth basic course. Most of the freshman’s time is taken up with class work, but the more ambitious members begin to investigate the possibilities of the special activities of freshman football, “B” basketball, Pep club, band, and chorus. Thus, as the rough edges are smoothed off, the freshman begins to feel that he “belongs.” SPECIAL PROJECTS, such as designing jackets for book report books, keep the freshmen interested in this most basic of all school classes, English. The students cannot hope to gain success in other classes unless they understand what they read, and can express themselves clearly. ALL SET for a shock are the members of the freshman general sc ence class who are learning, during an experiment with the static machine that the human body is a conductor of electricity.