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

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A ,: TV: al PHYSICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT The completion of our new Senior High School in September gave the students and the public of Beaver Falls the distinction of owning one of the finest gymnasiums in Western Pennsylvania. The gymnasium is sixty feet by one hundred feet. The playing floor is forty-five feet by eighty feet. Its six thousand square feet of floor space provides for a full size tennis court, two paddle tennis courts, and two hand ball courts, as well as ample space for indoor baseball. This huge room has a seating capacity of thirteen hundred seventy-five, with a possibility of many more hundreds being crowded in upon necessity. At the east end of the gym are the locker and shower rooms of the physical education classes, while at the west end are the facili- ties for handling the local and visiting football and basketball teams. Under the expert guidance of the Physical Education Instructors, Miss Alice V. Eskey and Mr. Joy Y. McCandless, classes in Physical Education and Health are held every period of the day. The value of this room to the public is inestimable because already many inter- scholastic as well as intercollegiate games have been played in it. Its importance to the students is incalculable, and without a doubt it is rapidly becoming a more indis- pensable unit of our educational system. rn

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'- .x HIE ik? . , s iii: 15595: llasnl THE AUDITORIUM Shakespeare once said, All the world's a stage . The casual observer in our new High School Auditorium, upon first glance in the direction of the footlights, would gain the impression that the architect must have toiled diligently to reproduce Shakespeare's observation in a material way. It is indeed huge. And yet it is so entirely satisfactory. Measuring Iifty feet in breadth and thirty feet in depth, it is equipped as few high school stages in the entire country. It is furnished with white, blue, and red lights from foot-lights and border-lights. The switchboard furnishes rheostatic control for practically every light in the Auditorium. In addition, the stage is furnished with a Velure Curtain, Asbestos Curtain, Cyclorama, one fine Exterior and two complete Interior Sets. Four sizeable dressing rooms are in place with running water in each room. The main body of the Auditorium is in keeping with the wide and deep with good lighting and generous ventilation, that it conveniently and easily seats srixteen hundred people, and audibility it is in a class of its own. All in all, it is a magnificent outlay and one of which we Let us hope that with such a laboratory, all plays presented of the setting, and that we may one day cultivate the theatre Falls to a truer understanding of the art of the stage. 24 size of the stage. It is and is so constructed For comfort, visibility, should be justly proud. therein may be worthy going public of Beaver

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f li l: r Till: sliiiilil THE HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT Miss Fulton Miss Seanor If the old adage, The way to a man's heart is through his stomach is true, the journey to mau's affection should not be difficult for the girls of Beaver Falls High School who are engaged in the Home Economics Department. At least not if their success is to be judged by the number of boys who hang around the first floor hall, attracted by the savory odors of cooking food. Not only are girls in this department developing the culinary art, but they are also introduced to the intricacies of sew- ing and dress designing. When we realize that, despite the modern progress of women in industry and business, over thirty million of our people are engaged in home-mak- ing we have little difficulty in appreciating the necessity for such training. Our Home Economics Department is well equipped to handle this instruction. The large cooking laboratory 011 the first iioor contains cabinets' covered with lustrous monel metal, enameled gas ranges, and gleaming white sinks. Connected with this cooking laboratory there is a model dining room in which the pupils may be taught the preparation and the serving of a meal. The sewing room is equipped with electric sewing machines. A Adjacent to this room is one which is to be furnished as a model bed room for student practice in home-making. Altogether this department is now well fitted to play the important role it de- serves under the guidance of its director, Miss Mary Fulton. During the absence of Miss Fulton, due to illness, this department is being ably managed by Miss Seanor. Z6