Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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The board of education is made up ot five members. Election to the board is so arranged that there will never be a complete change of personnel. The multiplicity ot duties in connection with the administration of nearly twenty thousand school children has been ably managed by the present board. Seated around the table lleft to rightl C. M. Love, Dana Shank, L. O. Griffith, W. T. Toney, and l. l. Kail, presi- dent of the board. Standing lleft to rightl H. G. Proc- tor, business managerg C. N. Fannin, assistant county superintendentg R. F. Brooks, assistant county superin- tendentg and O. C. Nutter, county superintendent. BOARD OF EDUCATICN

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ADMINISTRATION E. Q. Swan, principal, received his degree of bachelor of arts from Pennsylvania State Coi- lege, and he has also attended the University of Michigan and the University of Cincin- nati. He has had many difficult problems to meet and solve in the past few years. He makes the job of handling twenty-four hun- dred students and seventy-five teachers ap- pear easy. Miss Mae Newman, dean of the girls, has the difficult problem of administering to the needs of the girls of Huntington High School. She does a difficult job well. Miss Newman re- ceived her bachelor of arts degree from West Virginia University and her master of arts def gree from Columbia University. T. Smith Brewer, the assistant principal, has the endless task of records and admits which he has handled for twenty-three years. Mr. Brewer received his bachelor of arts degree from Franklin College and his master of arts degree from Chicago University. He has also attended the University of California. E. Q. SWAN MISS MAE NEWMAN T SMITH BREWER

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FIRST ROW ileft to righfl S. B. Angell, Mattie Baber, Winifred Burgess, Agnes Crabtree, A. C. Davis, Fannie Eagan, O, H. Flesher D W Fox and Elizabeth Fullerton, Second Row: Dorothy Atkins, john Brickels, W. H. Cornetet, Mary Daniel, W, S, Donat, Anna Belle Eaton, Genevieve Forsythe Daisy French and Ida Fulton. The aim of Huntington High School is to provide such opportunities as meet the particular educational need of each individual who enrolls. For some this means preparation for col- lege-either liberal arts or technical. For others it means such training as will prepare for useful and profitable service in industry or commerce on completion of a high school course. And for many who cannot give sufficient time for the completion of a h?gh school course of four years, it means definite and intensive training for specific positions in industry. Each department has grown and experimented to keep abreast of student needs. In the following paragraphs an attempt is made to summarize the activities of these departments. Since chemistry is a study of materials and the changes in materials, it touches all of us very closely. ln the presenting of chemistry in Huntington High School, recognition is made of the fact that chemistry is a practical subject as well as a cultural subject. A stu' dent who is not going to college has just as much need for a thorough foundation in the sciences, if not more so, than the student who is preparing to go to college. CHEMISTRY Both types of students are cared for by presenting all the fundamentals of chemistry from the viewpoint of consumer goods . Processes are not pre- sented just as processes, but practical applications are made of all the fundamentals pre- lsmentjedi A student is led to see the many ways he can use chemical facts and processes in is aiy ife.