DeVilbiss High School - Pot O Gold Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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D E P A R T M E N T pot o Each classroom at DeVilbiss is equipped with those necessities that make for effective study. Modern built-in files, cupboards, bookcases, and bulletin boards aid the teacher and student by providing a means of adequately display- ing teaching material. Base plugs in the room make possible the use of electrical apparatus. Each room has individual advantages making teaching and study- ing more pleasant and valuable. In the art room, one finds slides made from photographs of famous paintings, sculpturing, and architecture. Behind the glass doors of the cupboards are bright pieces of pottery set in a veritable garden of modernistic flowers. The commercial department offers courses which train students for positions in the business world. For typing students, forty-eight machines are furnished in two large, well-lighted rooms, with sound proof ceilings. These students are trained to operate the mimeograph and multistamp machines also. The English room bulletin boards are decorated with illustrations from novels, dramas, and pictures of places famous in literary history. Sets of books belonging exclusively to the English department are kept on reserved shelves in the library, along with magazine articles of interest to the English classes. French, German, Spanish, and Latin are the foreign languages taught here. Each room is supplied with reference books, maps, and pictures relative to the country which uses the language taught. C The rooms in the history department are fitted with sets of maps considered a to be the most complete group owned by any Ohio school. Often moving pic- tures are shown in these classrooms to acquaint the students with the conditions of the peoples and countries studied. In the mathematics department, one finds material for the studies offered. There is an eight-foot demonstration slide rule and a dissectible cone. Each part of the cone is colored differently and when the cone is taken apart each section is self explanatory. Each room is supplied with a blackboard drawing set, consisting of an extra sized rule, a protrac- tor, a 30-60 degree triangle, and a T square. The biology, chemistry, and physics laboratories are equipped to give a pleasant understanding of these subjects. Near the biology rooms is the conservatory whose in- terior reminds us of the phrase from the DeVilbiss school song, shades of violet hue, red and yellow, too, for we find one hundred and fifty different kinds of plants there, all being cared for by students and teachers. A consulting room, a laboratory, a classroom, and a rest room are the haunts of the students enrolled in the home nursing department. These girls assist the school physician in his health examinations. From the large, green-tiled kitchen of the home economics department come pleasing odors. It is so equipped that thirty-two girls may practice to become excellent cooks. In addition to cookng, the girls enrolled in this course are taught etiquette, household management, and the qualifications of being good hostesses. Amidst a row of electric sewing machines and many sewing tables, the girls design and make costumes for themselves as well as for others. Lockers, cupboards, fashion books, magazines, and dressmaking fittings all add to the facilities and pleasures of the sewing course. The fitting room with its platform, triple mirror, and large showcase has witnessed many interesting style shows. In a wing separate from the rest of the school is the industrial arts department. Each of the six shops is provided with a classroom in which the theory of the subject is taught. All of the shops have specially adapted machinery with which the students construct useful articles for the school. Two large gyms permit the boys and girls to enjoy a complete physical eduction program. As a place for study, or committees, the library offers its charms. gold Through the generosity of teachers, parents, students, and friends, the library will grow in size, as a pride and joy of all DeVilbiss boosters. thirteen

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A R T Thou art of superior merit, To be obscured is not thine. T y p i N G Bear this group in company, for with swift celerity, They expound the mute and silent words of mechanism. ilb e vi lb i ss fourteen