Cheney High School - Pine Cone Yearbook (Cheney, WA)

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ACADEMIC DIGEST COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT: One year of bookkeeping, first and second-year shorthand, and first and second-year typing are the subjects offered. Secretarial and stenographical training is received from these popular courses. These commercial students do much of the mimeograph- ing and typing for other organizations in the school. INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT: The courses available in this department are: elementary woodwork, cabinet making, home mechanics or repair Work, mechanical drawing, machine drawing and design, and architectural drawing. The boys have constructed stage scenery, ath- letic equipment, repaired school furniture, and assisted in community projects. Farm Shop is the repairing of old farm equipment and building of DSW. ENGLISH: English and American literature, tclosely linked with historyl history of grammar, construction of the English language, vo- cabulary study, forms of composition, and spelling are the wide fields taken in the study of English. Three full years of English are required 1or graduation. Journalism is the application of journalistic writing. This year this class has written the Cheney High News in the Free rress and published the Blackhawk. VOCATIONAL AGRICULTURE: Over forty boys are enrolled in the various Ag courses, designed not to teach boys now to produce more crops and animals, but to produce crops and animals more eificiently and economically. HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT: One year of home economics is required of all girls not majoring in home economlcs. A course called Home Relations has been added this year to the curriculum. Home econ- omics is for the purpose of studying and solving 'problems or everyday life which are ever with us, and the time may come when work in this department may be required of boys as well as girls. The hot lunch dur- ing winter is prepared and served by this department. SOCIAL SCIENCE: Psychology gives the student a chance to study his own characteristics, to find his weaknesses as well as his strong points. Economics treats the laws of trade and money along with other important national quest.ons. Sociology is the study of mauk.n.lis c.loro.s .l. conf certed activity and friendships and enmities involved. MATHEMATICS: The general purpose of this department is to de- velop definite reasoning habits and to help the student decide whether or not it would be advisable to enter a vocat.on requiring the use of the high- er forms of mathematics. The courses given in this department are geometry and Algbera II.