Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Huntington, WV)

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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.

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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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Ethel Gatewood Edith Gilbert Anna Greer C, I. Gould Marco Handley Alta Heinz Henrietta Hepburn Sam Hoffman Blanche Hood E. A. Hyldoft Mildred johnson Luverne Kelly Eddie King Marian Kitch FAIIULTY This changing world has necessitated a change in methods of teaching, especially of the social sciences. Search for facts is not only a means to an end. Interpretation in the light of present day conditions gives vitality to study and presents related ideas upon which to build for present day living. Page by page assignment has given place to an intelligent survey of specific problems which are followed to their final conclusion or to their relation to present day situations. Several text books are available to the students presenting the political, economic and social relationships. Numerous references from library, current literature, newspaper and radio are brought to bear on the prob- lem to interpret it in the light of present day events. SOCIAL SCIENCE Opportunity is given through reports, essays, discus- sion groups, clubs, field trips, lectures and forums to bring students more closely in touch with events of local, national and world importance. The division of high school English department into general and academic English is not new, for it was started in the fall of l93'5. a year before most of the seniors entered Huntington High School. Academic English is planned for those who wish to go to college. Everyone who really wishes to go to college should take this course and should begin in ENGLISH the lOB semester. This last point is important, for in IOB academic English the pupil is given special training in gram- mar. Among the new features of the English work this year are the two full-time drill classes, one in the morning for Sophomores and one the sixth period for Seniors. The new feature this semester is that the drill classes will last eighteen weeks instead of nine weeks and, therefore, can bene- fit more students. One of the most unusual and popular innovations has been the separation of the boys and girls in the lOB and IOA General English classes. Although boys and girls enjoy each other's company most of the time, each group has found it rather a relief to be free to read. talk and write about problems which are of no particular interest to the other group. The biology department during past years has experienced tremendous growth. This increase is due to several factors, first, large increase in student body, second, greater interest in the biological sciences: third, additions to the biology department of highly qualified teachers. What has been lost by the abolition of a laboratory period has been BIOLOGY gained in the establishment of a permanent visual education program. This program now has reached the point of develop- ment wherein the department has at the present time three projectors, a baloptocen, a delineascope, and film slide projector. The department now has a collection of three hundred and fifty lantern slides and one hundred film slides. These pictures cover every phase of biology adap- table to class room teaching. In addition to these teaching aids, about two hundred reference books have been added. Stimulation of interest is maintained by field trips conducted by various members of the depart- ment based upon seasonal adaptations. Aquaria and living plant studies are also maintained throughout the year. Collections of plants and ani- mals have also been made. The department has grown from two full- time teachers, with ten classes, to six full-time and one part-time teacher, with thirty-four classes. The function of commercial education offered in high school is to train students in business education, so that after the completion of their train- ing period thley will be able to assume the responsibility of an active, cooperative citizenhin the community in which they choose to live. ln t e commercial curriculum we have had in the ast we COMMERCIAL found only halfway training for our commercialpgradu- ates, that is, we were offering only the traditional 3 R's of commerce, namely: shorthand, typewriting and bookkeeping, when we I3