Falmouth High School - Crest Yearbook (Falmouth, ME)

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iss Front row: Elsie Doughty, Marjorie Cleaves, Mar- jorie Bragg, and Estelle Prince. Second row: Dorothy Libby, Barbara Aaskov, Lil- lian Kloth, and Dorothy Merrill. Third row: Lorraine Lenning, Isla Farwell, Mary Morris, Miss Rogers, Dorothy Bjorn, and James Youmans. 4...?.......L E bv-pf3,'I.U'I'9,'3Z it Two years each of shorthand, typewriting, andibook- keeping compose the main curricula of the commercial course. This year the Burrough's calculator and a course in Civil Service Training have been added. Both of these latter subjects help to make the commercial course at mouth High School as nearly equivalent to a business lege training as possible. In spite of the hard work involved in attaining standards in the commercial subjects, they are so int Fal- col- high rest- ing that a large proportion of the students choose them. In addition to the interest in certificates and pins which can zest to the work. Several of the girls taking the work itself, the many be earned add even more the com ercial course act as secretaries to the Principal and assist in extra work in the Superintendent's office under the supervision of the regular secretary. The school paper, NThe Skippern, is published by a group of energetic students from this department. We, the students of the commercial department, take this opportunity to thank Miss Rogers, who by her enthusi- asm and hard work, has made the commercial course a sue- CGSS. , ,fx 55 .

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I JN' JD U 5, 1' 10 1 Ze es VIW .sf In the picture are: Guy Mason, Mr. Reeves, Alton Christiansen, Richard Casparius, and Gordon Craw- ford. The Industrial Arts Department was handicapped this year by having to start without a full time instructor. Mr. Drummond had the difficult assignment of mastering a new and sometimes mysterious position, as well as carrying on the shop work. Mr. Reeves accepted the position as Industrial Arts teacher in October, and the classes were then divided between them. Mr. Drummond retained his class in mechanical drawing, a course in which he is very much interested, a mixed boys' class in shop work, and a girls' class in Industrial Arts, that he could not be persuaded to give up. Mr. Reeves was given two classes of seventh grades, one class of eighth, and freshman, sophomore and junior classes. The work this year has followed the General Shop system as nearly as possible, with instruction in electricity, printing, metal work, mechanical drawing and woodworking, but with the scarcity of metals, and electrical supplies, most of the constructive work was done in wood, which is still one of the best mediums of industrial expression. Some very interesting and useful articles have been made. The eighth grade have made electric motors, end tables, radio tables, lamps, wall racks, and bows and arrows. The freshmen and the soph- omores have been carrying on the work in General Shop and have made a drawing-table, small cedar box, jewelry cabinet, tilt-top table, con- sole table and other interesting articles. The aim of the Industrial Arts course this year, as in the past, is to help develop the pupils' personality into a recognition of the worthwhile things of lifeg an understanding of the industrial problems of the dayg an ability to createg and a possible avocation in this fast moving world of today. Ulf I build and build well,--I too may have at least this to leave to posterity.n

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,i-endif' 3 'L-S.. No school curriculum is complete without a complete science course which should include, in a five year high school such as Falmouth, general science for the eighth grade, science for the freshmen, biology for the sopho- mores, and physics and chemistry for the juniors and sen- iors. This year, along with physics, the Science Depart- ment is giving an excellent course in preparatory aeronau- tics. This course on aviation,based on the American Tech- nical Society's phamphlets and Jordanoff's Your Wings , is giving eleven upper classmen foundation enough so that they may take advanced aviation if they should enter the U. S. fighting forces or would be of tremendous value if they followed aviation as their life's work. In physics and chemistry special attention has been given to those students who are planning to enter college. Those stud- ents who are not planning to enter college have been taught the more practical aspects of both chemistry and physics that they might apply these to every day life. Biology has been given to the sophomores with the hope that it will teach them more about their own bodies, the road to health, their environment, and the apprecia- tion of all plant and animal life. Both science courses,taken by the eighth grade and freshmen,are given to explain the laws of nature, euild a foundation for other courses, and find out whether or not they may later, as juniors and seniors, want to take more work of a scientific nature. All the courses have been supplemented with lectures, outside work, and many of the fundamental experiments nec- essary for a thorough understanding of scientific princi- ples. N IMD I 5137, C '? QQ Egg 72 V- Q - 4' .-