Falmouth High School - Crest Yearbook (Falmouth, ME)

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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' .-

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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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In the picture: George Leighton, Porter Whitney, Mark otimson, Alton Christiansen, William Stroud, John Fa- bricius, Gordon Crawford, Guy Mason, Matthew Durgin an Richard Casparius. Many people are unaware of the importance of mechan- ical drawing. It is not generally realized that the prog- ress in engineering has been due in no small part to the draftsman. In these days of mass production where machine parts, for instance, are manufactured on a precision basis in various parts of the country to be assembled at a cen- tral point, the success of this job is dependent upon the drawings produced in the drafting room. Some of the weap- ons of war are manufactured in this way. A method of main taining the secrecy of the mechanism of these weapons is to have each piece of the instrument made independent of the other piece in various shops and shipped piece by piece to a point where the unit is assembled. Each work- man must be educated to utilize and understand the mechan- ical drawing. Mechanical drawing is known as the lan- guage of industry. This type of lang:uaf'e is used to give a clear and concise picture which is accurate to the nth degree. In our drafting class here at Falmouth, we are taught the elements and technique of drafting, how to make blue- printsrand how to read blueprints made by others. The last six weeks of school are utilized in blue- print reading. He are planning to use the same elementary course that is used in the shipyard. This practice will teach the boy to visualize the finished product from the drawings. Under the expert supervision of Mr. Drwanond this course has become one of the most interesting at Falmouth High School. Q1 K3 fig D Y.wD?aAajYM ,M Ni C I-I A IY' C fi R .pn ...- vw D R fi W 1 ,WE