Collingswood High School - Knight Yearbook (Collingswood, NJ)

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' x o Q Pictured above is a typical group of senior busi- ness students performing various duties pertinent to their subject, oliice practice. Miss Kate Fee is super- vising the operations. The photograph to the left is of the third year Spanish class. Miss Snoke's students, lett to right: M. Mann, I. Boedker. I. Tolletson, M. L. Van Hook, B. Thomas, R. Iackson, I. Stuber, D. Marple. E. Donaghy. F. Pettengill, I. Dodd, E. Hadey. Stand- ing at door is I. Furlow. The Senior High School offers three cur- ricula to its students, namely, The College Preparatory, The General, and The Business Preparatory Programs. A minimum of sixty- three counts during the three years of senior high school is required for graduation. Four subjects and physical education are required each of the three years. Before deciding upon a course, the pupil should consider carefully his previous record, ability, inter- ests, ambition, personality traits, and prob- able vocation or professional career. These things carefully considered, the pupil should be able to do his best work. The College Preparatory course offers many subjects of value and interest. The re- quired subjects are as follows: English, plane geometry, algebra ll, three years of one, or two years of two foreign languages, science, problems of American democracy, orienta-

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To the right, in a solid geometry class of Miss A. Latimer's. Fred Keene is reciting a proposition. Listenin 9 to Fred are, left to right. front row: A. Muir. W. Schwartz, W. Graven- stine. W. Gill. Second row: P. Turkot, R. Welden, I. Trainer. R. Biddle, I. Black. My uf . 9 - I The teachers, who are pictured on these pages, include seven who teach Englishg six who teach social sciences, six commer- cial subject teachers, tive who teach foreign languages, tour Well-versed in mathematics, tour science teachers, live who instruct in physical education, three who teach music Corchestral, band and vocal musicl, tive who have charge of special talents such as the domestic arts, cooking and clothing, free- hand and mechanical drawing, and manual training. There are also a librarian and a registered nurse who ably assist the pupils when help is needed. 4. x i c Directly above is a picture of one of Mr. H. Schwartz's classes in Problems of American Democ- racy. The four student leaders. reading from left to right. are R. DeWees. S. Task, S. Edwards, and M. Mosley. sh 8 1 Q X

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N-wl ' . Photographed at the right is Mr. C. Wehler's first period chemistry class, conducting experiments in the lab. Working at the table to the right. foreground to rear: B. Voegel. M. Crcxll, R. King. W. Vencxble, I. Depuy, B. Thomas, F. Pettengill. Standing at the other table: I. Barr, M. Hopkins. S. Kirsh, C. Hardy. 6 T lx K . ls.:-xi tion, and physical education. These are spread over a period of three years. The electives are: biology, American history, French, German, Spanish, Latin, solid geom- etry, trigonometry, chemistry, economics, geopolitics, shop, mechanical drawing, cook- ing, sewing, art, glee club, and orchestra. The General Program of the Collingswood High School deals with helping the students toward successful living. lt tries to provide boys and girls with experience and instruc- tion in the problems of the modern-day com- munity, such as Collingswood is. This also enables them to take their places in society earlier and more efficiently. lt is an over-all course which takes some of the more im- portant subjects and combines them with what is needed to become a good citizen. The required subjects offered in the Gen- eral Program Schedule are as follows: Eng- lish, biology, general math, social relations and economic social geography, current his- tory, American history, problems ot Amer- ican democracy, and physical education. These are the electives: French, German, Spanish, plane geometry, general chemistry, algebra, salesmanship, consumer education, shop, mechanical drawing, cooking, sewing, economics, geopolitics, general physics, art, glee club, and orchestra. These subjects con- stitute an interesting course lor those pupils who are eager to learn how to live harmoni-