Downingtown High School - Our Year Cuckoo Yearbook (Downingtown, PA)

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Commercial Department Trains for the Business World KNOWING HOW TO OPERATE OFFICE MACHINES IS OF EXTREME IMPORTANCE AS ROBERTA BAER, GAIL FRY, DONNA McELROY, AND LINDA MERCER WELL KNOW. The Business Education Department is designed to develop business skills to a degree of marketable efficiency and occupational competence. It also aids in the development of those personality traits necessary for getting along with others in business and for intelligent participation in personal, family, and community activities. Its many classes include typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, economics and law, advanced business, office practice, clerical practice, retail selling, and business mathematics. Ul TYPING PREPARES STUDENTS FOR FUTURE EMPLOYMENT AND FOR COLLEGE.

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Industrial Arts Yields Many Useful Products Industrial Arts students do not need the modern “Do It Yourself” kit. for they learn their skills in shop classes. The finished projects are exhibited in the local, county, and Delaware Valley fairs in the spring. The department includes a metal shop, a wood shop, a print shop, and mechanical drawing. Students in all these shops find that emphasis throughout is on vocational use of the skills acquired. HOUSE PLANS FOR THE ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING COURSE ARE DRAWN UP BY JAMIE PARTLOW, ASSISTED BY RICHARD STANESKI AND BOB MENNA. AMPLE SPACE AND EXCELLENT EQUIPMENT ADD PLEASURE TO SHOP WORK. EENY, MEENY, MINEY, MO! SAY THE BOYS AS THEY SET TYPE FOR THE JUNIOR PLAY PROGRAM.

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Mathematics and Science Challenge Analytical Minds “THINK” IS THE COMMAND OF SUSAN WHITTAKER AS SHE EXPLAINS A PROBLEM IN ALGEBRA II TO BILL POLLOCK, MARY A. SMEDLEY, AND PAT BROWN. At Downingtown High a student has ample opportunity to become acquainted with arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and the new math which is now being introduced. Indeed, every student who leaves our school will have benefited in some way from the Mathematics Department. In senior high the three science courses offered are biology, chemistry, and physics. Biology is required for graduation while chemistry and physics are elective subjects. Although science is essential for students going to college, it is profitable for all students. IN BIOLOGY LAB SANDY DEMATTEO, DICK WATTS, CHARLES TINDER, CHARLES BACKENSTOSE, AND BARBARA HADFIELD STUDY THE HABITS OF BACTERIA. JEAN WATTS, PAUL BACKENSTOSE, CHARLES KUHS, AND GWEN HABECKER ARE MAKING NITRIC ACID.