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

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FLUUERS if-vt , 9 0 B 4 A LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs. Virginia Francis, Miss Ruth L. Lukens, Miss Mary U. Fischer, Robert K. Lampton, Miss Fern Dickey, Frank Archarnbo, Carl A. Benson, Miss Mildred Schmidt. AT LEFT: Miss Frederica Hanson. Science Department In the age of the atom bomb, bacterial war- fare, and rocket planes it is impossible to forget that we are living in a scientific age. The Science Department at DeVilbiss does not attempt to ex- plain everything concerned with these inventions, but it is designed to help the student understand the world about him. The instructors of General Science, Biology, Physiology, Chemistry, and Physics aim to help the individual, school, and community to understand the factors of environment, and to encourage co- operation on community problems of health and welfare. They endeavor to stimulate thinking among the students and to interest them in modern developments in equipment and recent advances in all fields. By developing the powers of observa- tion, and by teaching the scientific method, this de- partment hopes to inspire students to do research work in science, or to apply their learning to what- ever occupation they enter. From the skeleton to the Bunsen burners and test tubes, the students always find the equipment and experiments interesting and instructive. Ever since DeVilbiss opened, its students have learned the fundamentals and the new develop- ments in science-the basis of our modern way of life-from the careful guidance of our faculty.

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TOP ROW: Harold D. Grubs, D. N. Stalker, C. W. Balsam. SECOND ROW: Irving Pross, Karl Huls, R. O. Merrill. Industrial Arts Department The Industrial Arts Department was opened in T931 with eight laboratories. Ever since that date hundreds of students have received careful training and guidance in the courses which this department offers. The classes now taught in this field are: lndus- trial Survey, Cabinet Making, Radio, Electricity, Me- chanical Drawing, and Architectural Drawing. A class in Map Drawing was added to the curriculum of the department during the second semester of this year. lt is the first time that this course has ever been offered in our school. During the war there were difficulties in lndus- trial Arts such as lack of materials and personnel, but now the situation is becoming less critical. The instructors hope that they will soon be able to reopen the sections in automotives and printing. This department, which has prepared so many boys for useful vocations, occupies the back part of our school known as the shops . Home Economics Department The obiective of the courses in Home Economics is to teach girls to be more aware of the uses of home economics in their daily lives. These courses enable girls to assume their share of responsibility in the home. Other aims are to develop the girls' abilities to select and make clothing that is attrac- tive, and to teach them interest in good grooming. i , Sie . . 1 :'.:' fJ5 -1 Um' ' fl 'f igsfwzf WP , p f 4 A, 'P MARY L. BARGMANN ..s........ 4 ' E2T3wF.5f5'3L. , :I.:' 5- i i sf. .K - g - , ..., ,.,,. .. . . CYNTHIA H. EWING

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TOP ROW Miss Al ce Moy Gerding Miss Olive McHugh Miss Genevieve Stowe Mass Rose Bloom, Mrs. Jeannette Brand, Miss Marior'e Warner David McMurray. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Carrie E. Whaley, Miss Charlotte Burwick M'ss Elaine H'rth Miss Grace Kratz, Miss Ethel Willoughby Miss M. Beatrice Louy Mrs. Alice Roach Perkins. AT RIGHT: Mrs. Edith Hopkins Schwenke M'ss Ruth Smith. NOT IN PICTURE: Mrs. Blanche Luther. English Department One of the most important departments in any high school is the English Department, for it is one of the 'Few divisions that reaches every student. One of the objectives of this field is to enable a student to recognize good literature and to work with it to the extent of appreciating and understanding it. Other 'factors which a student should acquire in these courses are the ability to read with ease and the power to concentrate. When a person has learned to compress his thoughts in pleasure-reading and to select the most important ideas in technical material, he has gained a power from which he will protit during the rest of his life. Furthermore, this de- partment gives the student a chance to express himself orally as well as on paper, at the some time he becomes more conscious of correct gram- mar and punctuation. Any student interested and especially talented in Radio Production, Radio Script, and Dramatics has the opportunity to study courses in this broadening field. The Speech Class aims to help a person overcome his self-consciousness when speaking before a group, to teach him the importance of clearer enunciation, and to enable him to capture the interest of his audience. I7 JGRAMMAQ Q, Q, Q1 U TEM MRL