Binghamton Central High School - Panorama Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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Miss Grace Holcomb, art teacher, and one of her classes at work. Home Economics is an excellent course which gives plenty of opportunity to all. The classes not only offer cooking and sewing, but other essential subjects such as child care, interior decorating, poise, and etiguette are taught. The classes are taught efficiently and interestingly in the classrooms or in the modern homemaking room. Modern stoves and refrigerators are constantly being used. The course, under the supervision of Mrs. Lillian Perkins, department head, is taught with the pur¬ pose to prepare young girls to be good housewives and homemakers in the near future. Home £c.... Art. In Room 325 there is always a constant buzzing of art students. Miss Grace Hol¬ comb is the supervisor and does a very efficient job of ' teaching art. Each term new talent arrives with interest in art. The students very often draw a number of posters for our school plays and events throughout the year. They also make cer¬ tain drawings to decorate the school. Each student is always given a week or more in which to finish his or her art project. The students are constantly trying to bet¬ ter themselves as far as their art work is concerned. Miss Dagmar Wulff and Miss Lillian Perkins. Page Thirteen

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Seated: Mrs. Blanche Beers, Mrs. Edith Calvert. Standing: Mr. William Hogan, Mr. John Gable. Mathematics.... Mrs. Beers explains to Sim Smith exactly how to do a complicated problem. MATH SCIENCE At Central High there is a variety of classes in the field of mathematics. These include plane geometry, intermediate algebra (either in one or two terms), trigonometry, solid geometry, and ad¬ vanced algebra. We at Central are for¬ tunate in having this variety of classes, for a student here can take the kind of math he likes best and still fill the reguire- ments for college. Even if a student is not planning to go to college, he should take some type of math, as it teaches him to think and reason guickly valuable assets in life. Science is a subject offered at Central not only to prepare a student for a special profession, but also to enable the student to observe and identify certain scientific facts. In Central there are two science courses offered, chemistry and physics. In chemistry the student studies the com¬ position of substances and the changes which they undergo under certain cir¬ cumstances. On the other hand physics pertains to the science of matter and mo¬ tion. A science major may be obtained if the student has had another year of sci¬ ence in junior high school. Science.... Miss Heyland explains to a group of physics students the operation of the static machine. Mr. John Grace, Miss Kathryn Hyland, and Mr. Donald Roehm, science teachers. Page Twelve

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The Commercial Department is another major phase of education at Central. Under the supervision of Miss Katherine Miller, the course offers students a foundation for careers in business. The main pur- Commercial.... pose of the course is not only to give the basic funda¬ mentals behind business, but also to teach the stu¬ dent how to apply his training after graduation. Such subjects as law, business arithmetic, bookkeep¬ ing, business machines, and salesmanship are taught thoroughly and efficiently. For those inter¬ ested in secretarial work, shorthand is of vital im¬ portance. Another subject that has proven its value is typing. College-bound students find this subject a helpful preparation for their college days. Even dur¬ ing their high school years, students can use skills learned in the commercial course. Typists find plenty of work on the school yearbook and news¬ paper. As a result of the careful and thorough education received in the course, many students obtain excel¬ lent jobs soon after graduation. Also quick advance¬ ment is assured to those who have had a complete commercial education. Credit is due to Miss Miller and the other commercial teachers for the wonder¬ ful job that they are doing in preparing students entering into the business world. Standing: Mrs. Katherine Gross, Miss Alice Lowry, Miss Mary Miller, Mrs. Frank Bochnak, Miss Doris Reagan. Seated: Miss Leda Wickham, Miss Caroline Wadsworth, Mr. John Guley, Mrs. Elsie Coffman, Miss Helen Murphy.