Gorham High School - Schola Yearbook (Gorham, ME)

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SCHOOL ln the middle ol' the lunior llrimarv floor there is :t large, hright orange tahle where the interest of the season is always displayed. In the liall the ehildren gath- ered for it many hright colored leaves: at Spring titne it was covered with pussy willows. maytlowers and forsythia which the ehildren foreed in water. Along these elementary seientitie lines they planted some tlower seeds, disettssed transplanting, hest times to plant and transplant and eare of the garden. .Xlthottglt they could not read a ther- mometer, they knew that it is ditlerent on dillerent days-that it is not the same indoors as out. The ehildren were very nnteh interested in seasonal happenings ---'f how people pre- pare for lYinterg signs of Spring always mean eroenses and no more snow snits. They told stories and tallied freely ahottt what natnre signs thev had seen and each one knew he nmst tell something interest- ing' so the others would want to hear it. This helped him to develop keener sense perception and more aeettrate tneaningfnl voeahnlary. lt also served to increase the haeltgrotnnl ol' all the children hy getting front eaeh what he knows. Spontaneity needless to say alrottnded in these soeial situations, To add to the well-halaneed program, there was an aetivity progrant every day and it' yon peeked in the door then yott might see some ehildren riding hieyeles. others playing with dolls and toys. still another group sitting in a eorner playing games. all learning to share. eooperate and have fun together. The sixth grade, not to he outdone, pro- dtteed for the whole sehool at' operetia entitled just llefore Llhristnias . Santa Claus with his hrownies and dolls sang and aeted in eostutnes made hy their parents. The mttsie department arranged the songs while the language elass made words up and printed the invitations in old Christmas Cards. The normal sehool shop helped with props and frames. Kliss Slosherg and Miss l'oli. the student teaehf ers, directed the show. The east did stteh a good jolt and ltept sttch exceptional hehavior during re- hearsals that they were given a hig party afterwards. Their httsiness ahility may he measured hy the class treasury whieh had hy the end of the year over S30 from the sale ol Christmas cards and valentines. With the money, they hought yarn with which the whole class knitted six-ineh squares for a Red Cross afghan. liveryone in sehool eoneentrates on not heing late and lllrs. Gross' elass made a speeial effort this year. hnt one hoy who didn't qnite make it onee or twiee. ottered the following' solntion in literary style: .X funny hird, strange and an' noying, Hew into my hird hottse. livery day he starts to sing ahont six o'eloel4. The other hirds jolt! lfontinued on Page 75D 'alll . 'b ' A-,i..q Page Sex en

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ARTS The past two years have seen many changes in the course of study and work planned for the shop boys. Mr. Savage was appointed as head of our department and accomplished much toward changing our course to a general shop basis from the previous unit shop setup. This meant a wider range of shop subjects but not going deeply into any one. Under the former setup on a unit shop basis more time was allotted to fewer courses. We studied Advanced Metal and the History of Industrial Arts Education under Mr. Savage and he supervised our practice teaching in the general shop at South VVindham. Mr. Smith replaced Mr. Brown who retired last year. lle taught a laboratory course in Electricity, General Metal, and supervised the practice teaching in Metal VVork. Our new Electricity laboratory was the result of his labor and planning. Mr. Cilley's course in lVoodwork was expanded to include Bench VVork f use of hand toolsl. Woodturning. and Pattern- making. NVe also had Mechanical, Ma- chine, Arcliitecttiral Drawing, and Cabi- net VVork from him. He supervised all our practice teaching in Drafting and XVoodwork in Academy Hall. Mr. Packard taught us Printing, Sheet Metal, and Guidance. This year he had the grade classes in the printshop. A lVe had many of the same courses that the other divisions had. VVe spent much time studying Algebra, Plane and Solid Geometry, Trigonometry, and Calculus which we had from Mr. Hill and Miss Upton. Elementary Industrial Arts and Freshman Biology from Miss Keene, School Law, and General Science from Mr. VVoodward, Hygiene from Miss Flint, Sociology from Mr. Bassett, Prin- ciples of Teaching from Dr. Bailey, Oral English from Mr. Sloat, Literature from Miss Lewis, and Social Science from Miss VVood. Sociology, Hygiene, and Literature were added to our course. Practically all of our courses were either new or were altered greatly. The purpose of these changes was to produce a teacher who could instruct pupils in any phase at all of elementary shop work. elementary science, or mathe- matics. It was felt that an elementary knowl- edge of many phases of industry was more desirable than a more extensive knowledge of two or three, To make this reorganization possible and to further the purposes outlined above many prominent and radical changes were made in the physical layout. Academy Hall used to have three separate shops on the first floor, Vtlood- turning, Machine, and a Drafting room: two shops on the second, Bench VVood- working and a Cabinet shop. Since being remodeled it had on the first Hoor a large shop for all the woodworking including many new machines, new benches, large tool closets amply equipped. and a small but excellent finishing room. On the second floor in place of the Cabinet shop was a fine, quiet library of all types of shop books. and a new electrical labona- tory. VVhere the bench room had been there was a new drafting room and a small storeroom. Mr. Smith's and Mr. Cilley's offices were here also. The brick building where the old Sheet Metal and Forge shops used to he was rebuilt. It was changed to a general metal shop, and forging, welding, pattern- casting, machine shop, sheet and art metal were taught. lt was equipped with metal- working lathes, shapers. a milling ma- chine, forge, pattern-casting equipment. gas furnaces, welding equipment, and sheet and art metal equipment. The government has been operating a night school here from four in the after- noon until eight in the morning. They were being trained to operate machines. Mr, Savage had his office in this build- ing and a new heating system was installed. Of course much of this sudden interest in the Industrial Arts Courses here and throughout the country was due to the war situation. llowever, it was felt that, due to the steady growth of this phase of education prior to the war and the now proven need of it, there will be little or no decline in interest. Page Nint-