East Stroudsburg High School - Cavalier Yearbook (East Stroudsburg, PA)

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Chemists of tomorrow learning the secrets of the test tube in our chemistry laboratory. Science and Mathematics and a Liberal Education Biology, physics, pre-flight aeronautics, and chemistry are our school's science courses con- tributing to our liberal education. Biology, a tenth grade course, is the last formal science instruction that many students not going on to college Will secure. Whatever they learn of the scientific spirit and methods of accumulat- ing knowledge is concentrated in this course. The aims of this course are attained in part through study of the work of great biologists- Pasteur, Mendel, Darwin, and Harvey, for i1- lustrationeand in part through individual pro- jects involving field or laboratory work which run parallel with the activity of the classroom. Those students preparing to enter college are urged to take a course in physics or chemistry or in both if they plan advanced work in science and mathematics in college. Our courses in physics and chemistry give a sys tematic presentation of the basic concepts and principles of the physical sciences. These courses aim to supply a broad view of the nature and organization of the physical world and a more mature approach to scientific con- cepts. The impact of the war brought pre-flight aeronautics into our school to stay. This course applies the principles of physics, meteorology and astronomy to flight. Those aspects of mathematics that are re- quired for all students are mastered by the end of the ninth grade. For those students Who do not plan to go to college our school otters the following review courses: commercial arith- metic, shop mathematics, and senior mathe- matics. For the college preparatory student two years of algebra and one of geometry are required subjects. Any student who plans to take college work in science, mathematics, medicine, or engineering is urged to elect trig- onometry and solid geometry as well. These students are the ones Who have better than average aptitudes in mathematics. Our good students are urged to study higher mathematics tor the truly liberalizing effect these subjects have on their education. Thirteen

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Making democracy live through student leadership in a class in Problems of American Life The Social Studies and a Liberal Education ttMan is by nature a political animal. So said Aristotle. He further said that virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. What better reasons for emphasizing the social studies in our program of liberal education can be found than these. American history is a required subject for every pupil in our high school. This course re- volves about the careful and detailed study of many of the principal events, movements, per- sonalities, and institutional developments in American history. It is' strongly factual in na- ture, and aims to provide a foundation for all later study or discussion of American life and society and for participation in the activities of citizenship. Our eleventh grade pupils study European history. This subject is treated from the point of view that the main tendencies in the devel- opment of our modern civilization stem from Europe's roots With this emphasis goes the study of the geographical factors involved. Twelve The war has driven home to us the problems of consumption. Many civilians felt the im- pact of war largely through rationing, price control, campaigns for saving, and the fight against inflation. We have seen the miracle of production take place in America; a press- ing postwar question is whether, with the use of intelligence, we can distribute our potential plenty to the American people and so match the production miracle With a consumption and distribution miracle. A course in consumer edu- cation has been added to our social studies offerings to enable the individual student to develop values and establish standards of choice-making which will help him toward a richer, more useful, and happier lite. Seniors study HProblems of American Life to understand the basic structure and processes Which constitute our political, economic, and social system. This course treats of the values expressed in our institutions and constantly Challenges the student with the maxim, HPoli- tics without history has no roots.

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This is the throbbing heart of our school. Here you see it in action. The School Library and a Liberal Education Yes, the library is the heart of our school. Furthermore, our principal believes our library should be the center of school life, and the most potent single agency in the school for promoting the continuance of education after school days are over. While some high school libraries are chiefly c1 storeroom for books, ours is on attractive and spacious workroom for students, housing our 4500 books. The room, decorated in or soft shade of green, can easily accommodate seventy students. On the walls of this light and airy room are three beautiful landscape paintings of picturesque Monroe County. One of these paintings is by the late Cullen Yates, N. A., and is valued at several thousand dol- lars. The school is indebted to Dr. Walter Angle, our friendly school physician, for this beautiful work of art. The other two attractive paintings were donated by Mrs. Agnes Dyer from the work of her deceased husband, H. W. Dyer. Mrs. Dyer has two daughters who are Fourteen graduates of our school, Florence of the class of '36 and Agnes of the class of '41. in addition to being a source of reference material for courses in English and history, our library is o: training school for proper methods of using library odds in looking up 0: topic. It is also a room for joyous voluntary reading. Here, the student has Ct chance to browse otmong good books omd magazines of all kinds. Our library functions as CI genuine service unit. It supplies materials for developing and ex- panding interests. Through its reference tools, indexes, bibliographies, omd catalogues, the realms of knowledge may be explored. The library, under the supervision of Mrs. Frederick Shoemaker, cooperates at all times with the other faculty members in helping students learn to use books and libraries, to find infor- mation, and to study. By its bulletins, exhibits, posters, and atmosphere, the library teaches informally. By its introduction to books, it suggests the lifetime use of reading to further any interest.