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

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Art and Music Are Both Cultural and Practical A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND THOUGHT ARE PUT INTO EACH ART PROJECT. Each marking period the students gather around the tables to discuss their projects for the next report period. Each student must choose a different project each marking period, so he will be introduced to the various fields of art which include crafts, pottery, ceramics, printing, and the different mediums of painting: oils, water colors, tempera, chalk, and charcoal. Frequent practices in instrumental sections improve performance. Technique, which is a requirement for each person, is perfected outside regular class time. Practice is necessary for precision, control, and the ability to play in a group. The Music Department offers training for those who have musical talents which they wish to develop and also teaches an appreciation of music. PERFECT RHYTHM?? AT LEAST THIS MUSIC-CONSCIOUS GROUP IS PUTTING FORTH ITS BEST EFFORT.

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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.

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Foreign Languages Open Doors to Foreign Lands PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT. The success of the language laboratory at D.H.S. depends upon three essential ingredients—the choice of proper equipment, a sound program planned well in advance, and teachers with the necessary enthusiasm and imagination to make the program w’ork. Its benefits become more apparent to everyone after each laboratory session. The students hear languages as they are spoken by the citizens of other countries as well as recordings by Americans. Moreover, the students feel less self-conscious about pronouncing new words in a private booth than in front of often unsympathetic classmates. “GALLIA EST OMNIS DIVISA IN PARTES TRES” IS STATED BY KENNY MATTHEWS IN LATIN CLASS. Learning foreign languages aids students by opening the doors to foreign lands and by giving a better understanding of the aspirations and ideals of other people. This year Spanish has been added to the foreign language curriculum. {'I