Fosdick Masten Park High School - Chronicle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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THE CHRONICLE Courses Offered at Fosdick-Maslzen ANY and various are the courses offered to the aspiring freshmen who enter the portals of FosdickfMasten. The light of knowledge is burning eternally in the fair corridors and one has but to have initiative and willingness to learn, in order to bask in its warm glow. For those who intend to pursue their education further after finishing high school, the college entrance course with rays which symbolize arts, science and engineering, offers opportunity to prepare for entering any college or university in the land. The beam of its light is cast most brightly upon the languages, but reveals also opportunity for a general preparation in other essentials for those wishing to enjoy the sun of success. For those who are undecided whether to continue their education or to go forth into the world at the conclusion of their high school career, the general course ray sheds an inviting light. It provides preparation sufficient for entering college or any walk of life with the utmost confidence. The broad rays of this curriculum shed light on specialized courses known as general language, general mathematics, general. history and general normal. One of the most popular rays is that cast by the commercial course. More students of FosdickfMasten follow the light shed on this path to knowledge than that shed on any other. Its beam seeks out the most intriguing lines of business endeavor and leads to full preparation for the embryo business man or woman. Another guiding light is that course offered by the homemaking division. For many who follow this ray of learning, a general knowledge of the making of a happy home is the essential feature. Others, after benehting by the course, go on into other lines of accomplishment well prepared. For those whose talents run to the artistic, the beam of the art course sheds its entrancing light. The art curriculum embodies history and appreciation of the beautiful as well as actual practice in the many types of drawing. Those people who are musically inclined are enabled to pursue this line of endeavor through the various rays offered in the music course. In connection with all these courses, the physical department offers chance for physical development to every boy and girl. Each pupil is required to take two periods of physical training a week. At these classes they go through various calisthenics or apparatus work, and this regular class work is followed by some game. In the spring the entire period is devoted to indoor and outdoor baseball and other outdoor work, This is true during the winter, at which time the chief sport is basketball. These are the many beams which shower their welcome light upon the fortunate freshman who enters upon the threshold of knowledge and guide him that he may evade the rocks of the sea of ignorance. page twenty-three

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THE CHRONICLE Mlss CONSAUL, Mlss RYAN, M1ss GLADYS SMITH, Mlss DONEY MR. HELLRIEGEL, Mlss FOLEY, Miss GATH, Miss VILLIAUME Miss MARONY, Miss STARR, Miss MILLS, Miss CARMODY page twentyffour