Beaver Falls High School - Tiger Yearbook (Beaver Falls, PA)

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5 E rw. W, ,,.,, W,,-,,,,., ,. . , .5 , ,. 2: Till: fliiii-al 1 e. THE MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Mr. Bilkey Miss Mr-Kee fCll.Ril'HlRIl, Mr. Frick Mr. Axtell There are two principles underlying our work in Mathematics, which are more or less complimentary: to develop our courses as pure mathematicians with the proper mastery of technique, and to relate the applications of mathematics to the cultural, industrial, and recreational activities of a progressive civilization. These applications of the practical values of mathematics are on exhibit in almost every phase of life. The full significance of this statement becomes more evident when an attempt is made to answer the question: What would happen if all the influence of mathematics and mathematical research were cut off from the life about us? The radio, the wireless telephone and telegraph, which are the direct results of mathematical and physical calculations, would no longer be ours to use. The structure of every bridge and build- ing would be a hazard to life in general, since their safety is dependent upon mathe- matical calculations of strains and stresses. The industrial, financial, and engineering worlds would no longer be able to operate with their characteristic precision and system. All scientific experiment would be seriously impaired if not entirely impossi- ble. Since the influences of mathematics and mathematical thought are indeliably imprinted upon the pages of human progress, the study of mathematical subject mat- ter and technique prepares an individual for better adjustment to a progressive en- vironment and for more efficient functioning as a member of a civilized social order. 19

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,W ,t C. l ,, , C, , , ,4 if C N Milli COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Miss Hill Mr. Bennett fChairma.nj Miss Sankey Miss Groetzingel' Mr. Wood Mr. Kamlner Miss McDonald One of the busiest places in Beaver Falls High School is the Commercial Depart- ment. Everyone has something to do, whether he is running the mimeograph or clicking typewriter keys. Everyone is busy at the task assigned him by the clerk at the desk in the office practice room. Efficiency, accuracy, and speed are the goals set by the instructors for the students to attain. The office practice students are divided into two groups, one group receiving their training in the morning and the other in the afternoon. Each student is assigned every other Week to work in some office. Students are detailed to work in the Principal's Office, Superintendent's Office, Telephone Switchboard, Clinic, Attend- ance Supervisor, Supervisor of Teacher's Bulletin, Library, and the Tiger Cub. Here and there in the above offices we see the students busily engaged in assisting the supervisors in solving their commercial problems. Four students are assigned from the stenography classes to take Assembly programs. This gives practice for speed in taking dictation, and transcribing notes. Programs for entertainments in the Audi- torium are made by the commercial students. These programs are often made in purple, crimson, blue, yellow, brown, and green, and are always very lovely. Combina- tions of these colors are used, such as red and blue in Old Glory. This colored work not only includes programs, but other work as well. 18

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ll F .,,, l jk! my TV: ililigal W THE SCIENCE DEPARTMENT Mr. Mayers Miss H. Sponcler ff'hilil'lllRiIlJ MP. Pitzer Mr. Heckathornv Biology, chemistry, and physics are the subjects taught in high schools that are universally called the sciences. However, the term science rightfully applies to any and all knowledge that has been systematically organized and classified. It is not the purpose here to justify the use of the term science in referring to the natural sciences almost exclusively, but rather to point out that one of the major objectives in the natural sciences is to have the pupil acquire a scientific method of thinking and that this method, so well developed in the field of natural science, can be applied in other fields. In addition to attempting to have the pupil acquire a scientific method, other aims include having the pupils acquire a knowledge of familiar things, an understand- ing of fundamental laws and principles, an appreciation of the motives and manner of life of the scientists who have labored with little thought of self in seeking for truth, a skill in understanding and in using a scientific vocabulary, and a realization that science will serve as a tool in many vocations. But the objective that is ever present is that the pupils may learn to think scientifically and thus attain integrity in the mental processes and finally to intellectual morality. '20