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

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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?

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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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QOOAL STUDIES It is the purpose of Social Studies to make the student aware of the history, the problems, and the future of the countries of the world. In the sophomore year he is informed of the cultural and historical background of countries outside the boundaries of the United States. In the junior year he studies tlie United States including its discovery and growth, the birth of freedom with the subsequent struggles to retain that freedom, and the attempt to keep the world free from tyranny. During the senior year he considers the problems he will face in the future. By debate, discussion, study and films, every student is encouraged to think for himself about world problems and their solutions. Regina is pointing out Downingtown to Joann, Jack, and Keith. Are Amoebas that funny? SCIENCE The principal objective of our science courses is to encourage original and creative thinking by the students through individual study, classroom discussions and laboratory work. The Science Department keeps its program up to date with modern science, thereby allowing the students to follow the latest scientific developments in industry and research. The whoosiemijigger is connected to the thingamabod,” say confused physicists, Hiltebietel, Irwin, Connor, and Mattison. 19