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

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Art In addition to its regular criteria, the Art Department offers courses in art crafts and in fine arts. The art crafts curriculum includes ceramics, wood carving, graphics and a variety of other crafts. The fine arts curriculum includes water coloring, portrait painting, figure drawing and art appreciation. Music FUTURE PICASSOS! Bill Inslee seems lo enjoy Dave Mahoney's work. The Music Department, which consists of both instrumental and choral groups, offers training for those students with musical talents which they wish to develop and also provides an Appreciation of Music course. Both vocal and instrumental areas are elective and give credit toward graduation. The marching band, with majorettes and color guard, performs for football games and in parades. The concert band gives Christmas and spring concerts. The Whippetonians play for special school functions and dances. The choral groups are Mixed Choir, and the Girls' Chorus. Although these groups assist at school and community affairs, their major presentations are a Christmas cantata and a spring concert.

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Physical Education ANY LAST WORDS, MISS HELLER? The physical education program is planned to meet the developmental needs of every student. The activities are broad in scope with emphasis placed on the acquisition of worthwhile habits, attitudes, knowledge, and skills. This year the department is concentrating on sports that can be enjoyed after graduation from high school: archery, golf, tennis, volleyball and softball. Health AMI ItH 11 tolls) vn»MH M • HUNTS THE ULNA IS CONNECTED TO THE HUMERUS, Dan Phipps points out to 16 Richard Biondi and Ted Rissel. Great strides are being made today in health. Because students must be kept informed of recent knowledge in this field, health is required for all juniors for three periods each week. The classes stress the improvement of the health of the individual, the health problems of the community, the various health organizations and the responsibility of each individual for the better health of the nation.

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Mathematics Because a knowledge of mathematics has practical value for everyone, phases of this subject are available to every student in Downingtown High School. Through classes in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and the new math, the Mathematics Department meets the needs of every student. THIS MUST BE THE CORRECT ANSWER, Larry and John tell Richard Business Education Our well-equipped Business Department trains students for positions in the various fields of the business world. Modern equipment helps them to become efficient in the specialized jobs which will be available to them. The Commercial Curriculum includes bookkeeping, shorthand, typing, clerical or office practice, economics and law, retail selling, business mathematics, and advanced business. 2+2 = 4! NANCY BUSBY, BARBARA AMMON, KRISTINE MENTO find the answer easily with adding machines. 18 KEEP YOUR EYES ON THE BOOK, NOT ON THE KEYS.