Bradford High School - Spy Yearbook (Kenosha, WI)

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Doherty Boys Buck Guerz Mason Schaefer Walter Whitaker 161 cience For all we know they might be brewing atomic bombs or bathtub gin, but our science experts inform us that these aspir' ing young scientists are distilling water. Mary Doherty M.A. - Elizabeth Boys M.S. - Donald Buck M.A. - C. L. Mason M.A. - Lydia Goetz Ph.M - Prudence Schaefer M.A. - Charles Walter M.A. - Philip Whitaker M.A. Science is taught with the idea of meeting the needs and interests of the students. It is the purpose of the department to help the student to think critically, to observe accurately, to develop an inquiring mind, and to learn to seek truth rather than to guess or to jump at conf clusions. Science gives the student a better un' derstanding of the world in which he lives and helps him to build a better one.

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Merrick Blank Schuessler Wilson Alma M. Merrick M.A. - Margaret Densmore M.A. - Juliana Blank M.A. - Virginia Wilson M.A. - Leone M. Schuessler M.A. - Ruth Brown M.A. The language department oifers courses in Latin, French, German, and Spanish. ln the study of Latin, students learn words which throw light on meaning of English words, grammar, which is needed in all language work, and the character and accomplishments of the Romans from whom much in modern life is derived. ln the modern languages, students learn to know the language, literature, and people of nations other than their own, the meaning of many foreign phrases in the English language, and the joy of speaking a foreign tongue. FOREIGN dngudge Ny Clustered around a map of France, attentive French stu' dents listen to Miss Wilson as she explains a little French geography.

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ocia Hansen Duncan Hastings Jones Paddock Peck Rafshol Smith Matilda Hansen M.A. - Mabel Duncan M.A. - Hope Hastings M.A - Ethel Mae jones M.A. - W. W. Martelle M.A. - Howland H. Pad' dock M.A. - Katherine S. Peck B.A. - Martin Rafshol M.A. - Glenn Smith M.A. The courses in social science aim to give stu' dents an appreciation of their American heritf age, a knowledge of the background of American institutions, and an understanding of current American and- world problems, as well as to develop skills in interpreting maps and graphs, in reading for information, in thinking and communicating thoughts eiiecf tively, and in evaluating propaganda intelli' gently. SCIENCE