Indiana High School - L Indien Yearbook (Indiana, PA)

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Lf INDIEN NQNMS' MMM 0' M 'as --. ........... .,,,----:,--.- .............. ----.. , .................. -I ....... I ....... ------,---- ENGLISH DEPARTMENT The English Department Program offers a complete study of both composition and literature, conditioned as to the needs of the student and the benefit of his community. The aims of the English department is to instruct the student to observe good literature as an interpretation of his present life, thus endeavoring to influence the pupil in his choice of reading used as a resource for pleasure. To establish an interest in good reading is also an aim of the literature section of this department. The composition section endeavors to train students in express- ing ideas with clarity and variety. To speak on everyday topics is another point of training in which the English department specializes. Journalism, a recent addi- tion to the curriculum, provides an outlet for original self-expression and a de- velopment of newspaper writing style. LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT The Language Department offers three years of French and four years of Latin. The third and fourth years of Latin have been confined this year in the study of Virgil, which will in the future alternate with the study of Cicero. The objectives of the department, following the trend of modern education, are not only to def velop the ability to understand a foreign language, but to stress the social aspect of language studyg to develop in the student worldfmindedness, toleration, and appreciation of ethical, cultural, and esthetic values through a knowledge of foreign civilizations. As an aid toward accomplishing these ends, clubs have been organized in the more advanced classes and individual projects are required of the first class. is si I i ESTI-IER ALBER, Commercialg OLIVIA BARBERIO, Commercialg MARION BATH, Secretary ao Superintendent and Boardg GERTRUDE BENNER, Ccmmercialg CLAIR BORLAND, Geogra- phyg FRANCES BRODERICK, Social Science and Physical Educationg LAURA BUTER- BAUGH, Sewingg HARRY CANFIELD, Head of Music Departmentg CHARLOTTE CHAPMAN, French and Englishg FRANKLIN CHERMOCK, Music. -wifi ?3q.a...

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4 .v J he 0,4 .- MR. NORMAN KOONTZ Superintendent of Schools A graduate of Grove City College and of Yale and Columbia Universities. Holder of the Diploma in School Administration conferred by Teachers College, Columbia University fpartly honoraryj. Graduate student in the field of Teacher Training, Teachers College, Columbia University. Teacher in rural and village schools, Indiana County, Principal in the Central Ward School, DuBois, Pa. High School Principal in Indiana, Pa., and Tyrone, Pa. Superintendent of Schools in Jamestown, N. D., and Titusville, Pa. Instructor in Summer Schools in Grove City College and Indiana State Teachers College. In present position since july 1, 1928. J. A. LUBOLD Principal of the High School Graduate of College of Liberal Arts, Susquehanna University, Master of Arts degree in Educa- tion and Science, Susquehanna University, Graduate Work in School Administration and Supervision, Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh. Head of Science Department, Huntingdon, Pa., High School, Head of Science Departmen, Aspinwall, Pa., High School, Instructor in Physics, McKeesport Technical High School, Principal Mclieesport junior High School, Instructor McKeesport Teachers' Training School, Principal Union- town, Pa., Senior High School, Present position since July 1, 1932. VIOLA SIMPSON Assistant Principal Graduate Indiana High School, Indiana State Teachers College, Allegheny College, Special Work, Columbia University, Teacher of Latin, Derry High School, Teacher of English, High School, Scottdale, Pa., Ambridge, Pa., Present position since 1921. Assistant Principal since 1924. -Neg 11

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L' INDIEN MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Few other schools present a better variety of mathmatics than Indiana High School. Students in the department have every opportunity to familiarize them' selves with almost any mathematical subject on the high school level according to their desire. This year's curriculum has undergone a slight change from that of previous years. Full term studies in high school arithmetic, plain geometry, and first year algebra have been continued, but the department offers only semester courses in solid geometry, trigonometry, and advanced algebra, the latter being chiefly a preparatory subject for pupils planning to continue their educations in a scientific or liberal arts college. This change in the curriculum was made in preparation for future advanced mathematical courses which are planned to be fitted into the program and which will provide the student with a more basic knowledge of the subject. NATURAL SCIENCE The studies available to the pupils in the department of natural science have been enriched somewhat during the present school year by the partial segregation of the students into two different types of classes. In one class will be found mainly pupils who are lilcely to study beyond the high school level in the field of science and whose curriculum needs to be, to some extent, of a college-preparatory nature. The same subject matter is taught in other classes from a different view- point, that of the pupil who will graduate from the high school with the intention of securing immediately a gainful occupation and whose requirements, therefore, are different from those of the collegefpreparatory group. The problems of school- program building limit the extent to which this procedure may be followed, but the intent is to provide insofar as is possible exactly the kind of natural science inf struction best suited to those two main types of pupils. Q73 . x ff WM f dw Q,l Vi , s x 1 I W' mia- LAURA CHURCH, Mathematics: ALICE CLEMENTS. Cooking: MELINDA DETWILER. JL Mathematics and History: DAVID DUNMIRE, Arithmetic: CAROLINE GESSLER, Mathematics Hd and Geographyg GERTRUDE GLUCK, Biologyg GERTRUDE HANDLER, Englishg HELEN HERSPERGER. Head of Language Department: GEORGE HILL, Head of Science Departmentg HELEN HOLSTEIN, English and Latin. 13 Ig..-