Bloomington High School - Gothic Yearbook (Bloomington, IN)

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Cffew Classes---New Trades Taught Old familiar courses were supplemented by new classes and trades in direct preparation for war work. Pre-flight aeronautics and radio prepared boys for duty in the armed forces. Pan-American relations having become so important, Spanish was added to the foreign language curriculum. The Home Economics Department undertook two new projects this year. During the first semester two classes in nutrition were offered to parents of children whom the health department found undernourished. The second semester an exchange unit went into effect with the girls being taught how to make Victory Gardens, and the boys being tutored in nutrition. Annual physical examinations were re- quired, and one of the contributing factors of the physical fitness program was calisthenics. The Industrial Department offered class- es from four o'clock in the morning until midnight, in blueprint reading, machine tool operation, welding, drafting, and precision instrument reading. War geography and current events came to the fore in the social sciences, and new war developments were discussed in science classes. Keyed to new and better methods of learning, students of B. H. S. graduate into the definite positions for which they have been prepared.

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