Fairfax High School - Colonial Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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SCHECK EBERTS BEHRMAN MCKINLEY McDONALD PARTRIDGE WOOLERY MCCULLOCH SCIENCE The Science Department of Fairfax High School enrolls nearly fifteen hundred students in its various classes. The subjects taught in the department include ninth HOME ECONOMICS A successful life demands that one should learn how to live as well as to earn a living. The arts and sciences that contribute to a healthy and happy life are taught and learned in this department. Such subjects as: Social Arts, Household Management, Household Arts for Boys, Nursing, Millinery, Clothing, Cooking, the Art of Entertaining, and Dietetics are offered. Under the able leadership of Miss jean McCulloch, the instructors of this division include: Mrs. Marguerite Behrman, Miss Nellie Eberts, Mrs. Lillian McDonald, Miss Mae McKin- ley, Mrs. Irene Partridge, Miss Beulah Scheck, and Miss Lucy Woolery. SIDALL SMITH GRAY CHANDLER MEYER KOENIG GERMANN CORNELL GRIEVE SITLER AIGNER grade general science, tenth grade biology and horticulture, eleventh grade physiology and chemistry, and twelfth grade physics. The enrollment in biology and physiology seems to be in- creasing from year to year. Physiology I and II enrolls a total of three hundred and fifty students in the twelve classes. The teachers of these classes are the following: Mr. Lisle Smith, headg Mr. L. F. Chandler, Mr. B. D. Cornell, Mrs. jean Cermann, Mr. Don C-ray, Miss Iessie Grieve, Mr. Vwfalter Koenig, Mrs. Bea Meyer, Mrs. Doris Sidall, Mr. I. W. Sitler, and Mr. Aigner. I6

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RAE C. VAN CLEVE, Principal MILDRED FINCH BROWN, Girls' Vice-Principal DEWITT S, SWAN, Boys' Vice-Principal

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i OFFICE Should our school be compared to a great manufacturing corporation-we would say that the teachers were its produc- tion department as by their guidance and labor is knowledge created out of in many cases very raw material. No factory could long exist or even be created without an administrative department-therefore in our school we have what we call the office. Here we find those quiet inobtrusive workers whose duty it is to keep records, offer guidance, help find a book, write a letter, make appointments, and in a word do all the essential gil ' ' - esriu. Gooosuouci-i MASON detail work for this community of men and women, boys and MARTINEZ PURNELL NEWE,-L girls known as Fairfax High School. MAHSE NELSON lts personnel consists of: Mr. LeRoy Goodenough, reg- istrar, Miss Helen Mason and Miss Helen Estill, librariansg Miss Ruth Purnell, student advisor, Mrs. Dorothy Newell, secretary to principal, Miss Marguerite Martinez, senior clerkg Miss Cecille Mahse, junior clerk, Mrs. Beatrice Nelson, assistant registrar. MARNN wooo wi-nts Hen. PsTsRsoN suMMerzHAYs Ti-ioMPsoN scHuLHoF ursioenwooo Mooizs oAvis wood. l This department, headed by Miss Emma Wood, is one of the most important at Fairfax. Because of present day con- ditions, pupils wish to know more about national affairs and relationships. This accounts for the increasing interest in civics, social problems, Pan Pacific, and International Rela- tions classes. Ancient, world, United States, and California history are given as background for the more modern subjects. Those teachers who are responsible for the active interest in Social Science are: Miss Emma Wood, Miss Hazel Martin, Miss Athol Moore, Miss Martha Schulhof, Mrs. Harriet Peter- son, Miss Elizabeth Summerhays, Mrs. Emily Thompson, Mrs. Gladys White, Mrs. Margaret Davis and Mr. Harry Under- l7