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

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT This department offers courses preparing not only for positions in the business world but also for personal use. Although it is designed primarily to develop efficiency and competence in business skills, it aids in the growth of intelligent participation in personal, family, and community activities. The Business Education curriculum includes typing, shorthand, transcription, bookkeeping, economics and law, advanced business, office practice, clerical practice, retail selling and business mathematics. Speedy arithmetic! Brenda Foster, Barbara Black, Paula Scharek are using adding machines.

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 WUSIC Downingtown Joint Senior High School’s Music Department consists of both instrumental and choral groups. The marching band, with the majorettes and color guard, performed for football games and in parades,. The concert band gave Christmas and spring concerts. Members of the band participated in the Lower Southeastern District Music Festival, the All-State Region III Music Festival and on June 6, 1964, the Blue and Gold Concert Band gave a concert at the 1964-65 World’s Fair. The Whippetonians, a popular group, appeared at special school functions and dances. The choral groups are the Mixed Choir, the Boys’ Glee Club and the Girls’ Chorus. Throughout the year these groups assisted at school and community affairs. Their major presentations were a Christmas Cantata and a Spring Concert. Members selected by competition took part in the District Chorus and the All-State Region III Chorus. ENGLISH Because it enables students to express their ideas and to listen with understanding to the ideas of others, English is an important part of our school curriculum. Throughout the year its study includes vocabulary, spelling, grammar, composition and literature. English students benefit by hearing their mistakes. 16

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ART One of the most popular electives in our school, Art, offers something of value for everyone. This department has two distinct areas: General Art and Crafts, and Fine Art. General Art and Crafts enables interested students to perfect technical skills and to experiment in creative expression, while Fine Art gives a broad, complete, art background for the person interested in art as a career and for those who plan to attend schools of higher education. DRIVER, TRAINING Each year students learn the skills necessary to meet today’s driving situations through guidance, knowledge and application. Once a week the class as a group meets to learn the principles of safe driving, but each day individual students apply their knowledge by practice in the training car. 18 Engine trouble or should Dennis Dancy learn how to drive?