Highland Park High School - Albadome Yearbook (Highland Park, NJ)

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SCIENCE 86 MATH DEPARTMENT OUR MATHEMATICS department IS under the supervlslon of two teach ers, but lt covers four years of work FIFSE and second year algebra IS taught by MISS Myrtle Hughes, whlle the mstructlon of plam geometry, trlgonometry and solld geometry hes ln the hands of Mr Harold Ham1l ton The mam 0bjCCtlV6S m thls de partment are to comblne busmess wlth pleasure and to make the stu practlcal to people m the world of lndustry The scxence department IS also conducted by two teachers M1ss Laura Panebaker, who teaches gen eral sclence and blology, and Mr Wxllnam Frxtz, the 1rlStI'uCtOr of chemlstry and physlcs Mnss Pane baker Includes many motlon pnctures nn her method of teachmg The plan of Mr Frltz 1n makmg hls subjects lntCI'CStl!1g IS to mclude XRFIOUS trlps to plants and factorles where the stu dents see the work of chemlstrs and phy sncs ln actnon lug 1111 WILLIAM D FRITZ B S Gettysburg College M S Gettysburg College M A In Ed Columbla HAROLD HAMILTON B S Kansas Teachers College Emporia Kan M A Columbna Unn erslty MYRTLE HUGHES B S New jersey College for Women NIEd Rutgers UHINCFSIIY LAURA PANEBAKER A B Western Mary land College WI A Columbia Unn ersxty n 1, I dents realize that these subjects are ' U x , I I . ., ' ' ' ' . . . . I . . y 1 1 a I ' ' jr 'lu' 4

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-'fi '-.sf ,ie MUSH28 CONDIT ATKINSON New ersey Law School Certnficate of Niusnc at Rutgers LE HOAGLAND Pennsy lxama School 'viustum of Industrnal Art KATHERINE LYONS Trenton Normal School BS Columbia Teachers College 1de'l l ART DEPARTMENT THERE ARE certaln departments of the school curriculum whlch are ac tually mdlspensable to thelr students and the school as a whole Two such departments are those of Art and Mus1c The Art Department 1n ad d1t1on to 1ts regular courses, works through the Stagecraft Club and other groups to provlde all scenery for school productxons and decora tlons for school dances The Mus1c Department also does more than IIS hare toward axdmg ID the school actlvltles The mam achlevement m thls field for the past year was thc memorable operetta The Mnkado but thls was by no means its only work A svcty volce Glee Club, the gamzed band have all part1c1pated ln several programs The Concert SCYICS featurmg professlonal musl clans was a new and successful ndea for thns year A Jomt offermg of the two departments Whlch proved an even greater success than that of former years was the annual Chrlst mas Program of muslc and tableaufc Page Elm cn .XI I . . Q , - 1 , ' - ' 1 U S s . 7 ff ' Y, 7 T U.: E- B . I A .f, ,v:f1 , school orchestra, and the newly or- 'fifty ' I A . A jig? Y ' f ' ' -

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ALI-RLD BUSCHORN B S In Ed Rutgers NI of Ed Rutgers AB Loulsmana State U Nl A Columbxa Umversnty CLIFTON LAWRENCE A B Tusculum Collage X1 A Columbn Umsersntx ILA PROFFER BS and MS Columbm U INSTRUCTION! INI the Socnal studxes hes m the hands of four teachers Mlss Cushman, M155 Proffer Mr Buschhorn, and Mr Lawrence In thelr classes are, at one tlme or an other, almost one hundred per cent of the student body for Amerlcan Hlstory, Problems of Amerncan De mocracy and Cxvlcs are requ1red subjects for all freshmen jumors and senlors, whnle European Hxstory IS a popular elective Mlss Cushman t aches Amer1can Hnstory but m stead of gnvmg bormg dates and facts she enlxvens her classes by jokes and anecdotes pertammg to the subject In thas way hlstory becomes more mterestmg to the student The Prob lems of Amerncan Democracy classe under the d1rect1on of Mr Lawrence dlscuss problems whnch confront the publlc today and whlch we, as future cxtlzens, may be requlred to solve Mr Buschhorn s CIVICS classes are run somewhat on the same prmclple onlv thelr problems are not actual ones but theoret1cal European I-Instory and Economlc Geography are taught by Mlss Proffer SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENT Pagt Tlurlt rn J . . : 7 BESSIE CUSHMAN . '