Classen High School - Orbit Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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EDNA B. STEVENSON FERN Hoovnn A. C. Core' CHARLOTTE STRINGER The Art and Music Departments Two departments upon which all school activities are dependent are the music and art departments. The Art Shoppe and the music rooms are busy places before any big school activity. The music department offers in addition to the Girls' and Boys, Clees, band and orches- tra, a chorus class open to all girls, and one year of harmony. Full credit in outside music is allowed with the requirement that the student have one year of high school harmony which counts full credit. Miss Fern Hoover is head of this department, having full charge of all vocal music and harmony. A. C. Goff has charge of the orchestra and band. Special classes of the art department are planned to cooperate with other school functions. The commercial art classes design posters, announcements, cafeteria cartoons, and linoleum cuts for the newspaper. The design classes give the pupils an appreciation for beautiful design and color and seek to apply this appreciation to their daily lives, in dress, surroundings, and home furnishings. Stage craft is taught in the interior decoration class and every stage setting used in the school is arranged or worked on by art pupils. For those who wish charcoal, pencil or pastello, a class in drawing has been organized. This course includes outdoor sketching. History of Art is another interesting advanced course. Mrs. Edna B. Stevenson has been at the head of the art department since the school was built. This year Mrs. Charlotte Stringer has been her assistant. Page 2 2 E TfiTfE71fjEEiQFEnznilxmiimxiii1zDIi5fii 7'A aq A'T'A'n xMx'A' 'A lTxDL10UA'?7W 123mLqT'31l'7

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1 ... ..r ... ... s. ..r .,. ... ... T.. sr ... .,. sa... ..r r,. .,r - Lai: K. ANnEasoN GERALDINE GABEL GRACE Dsuvass ARTHUR HUTCHINSON Howano E. BROWN RUTH SMITH L. O. WILSON The Science Department During the past year rapid growth has been shown in the science department. Two new teachers have been added to this faculty. They are Howard E. Brown, who devotes all his time to the teaching of science, and Arthur M. Hutchinson whose time is divided between science and industrial art. Physics and electricity have been added to the course of study this year. The work done is very gratifying and with new apparatus, which is expected this summer, these courses next year will be even better. The supply of apparatus which has enabled the department to carry on the work in a much better manner than last year has also been increased. Department enrollment is now about 650 which is an increase of about twenty-five per cent over that of last year. The biology courses, including botany and zoology, have outgrown the space allotted to them and it has become necessary for quite a. large number of students to postpone their science work. This condition will probably exist in the future since there is no room for expansion without a large expense which does not appear to be justifiable 'at present. This expansion will be forced upon the department however in a few years. This year as in others the science department has cooperated with other departments in carrying out the general activities of the school as well as those of other institutions. Classen was entered in the National Chemical Essay contest. The results of this contest will not be known until late in the spring. Another change in the faculty has been the substitution of Miss Ruth Smith for Miss Grace Deupree who, due to a serious accident, was rendered incapable of teaching the classes for the remainder of the year. Page 21 -v v-v v'v v-v -Av v'v vw -v v-v v-v Av v-v v-v v'v v'v v'v v-v Av vAv v- v'v v-v -v v-v vlv Fv v

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Mafffvff W?1v1f'v1'3iUEf5i3ii2lQ75TfUf5' T , fx, wig J EARL COFFEY RETHA WAVE HULET FRANK E. MCKE1-: G. W. BRUCHER Industrial Arts and Physical Education Departments A total of approximately one hundred students was enrolled for woodwork each semester this year according to Frank E. McKee, head of the industrial arts department and instruc- tor in manual training. End tables, furniture novelties, cabinets, and various household fixtures are some of the articles manufactured by the pupils. Four lathes, a surfacer, and a hand saw were installed this year as part of a two year equipment program for the woodwork de- partment, and application has been made for four additional lathes, a jointer, and a morticing machine. The mechanical drawing students under C. W. Brucher held to their regular courses of study consisting of architectural and mechanical designs together with the more elementary work. Although Arthur Hutchinson's auto-mechanics classes were somewhat handicapped by a lack of apparatus this year, such will not be the case in the future since the requisition for new equipment includes everything that goes to make up a modern auto-mechanic shop. Addi- tional electrical apparatus and a print shop will also be requested. Materialization of plans, now under advisement, will somewhat alter the boys' physical education courses next year according to Earl Coffee, instructor. Every boy will be required to take at least one year of gym and such additional physical education as may he warranted by the individual. The boys spent most of their time on calesthenic nomenclature and marching, while the girls classes, under the supervision of Miss Retha Wave Hulet, made a specialty of gymnastics proper throughout the latter part of the year. E5 Page 23 QQ WW 1 Wwvamra ' 2,