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

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J ,- 15.4.4.4 ,,,,,.J J J .- THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT An excellent curriculum is provided in the Commercial Department for those pupils wishing to secure a business education from their high school studies. The department has three aims: CID to train pupils for the contact job with business and prepare them for advancement to higher levels of employmentg QD to pro- vide pupils with a broad general training which will enable them to continue their education as they see fit in related fields on a higher levelg UD to make pupils intelligent consumers and distributers of business services and commodities. The organization of the department consists of two main divisionsg Account- ing and Secretarial. Present day statistics reveal that approximately 955 of all stenographers employed in the United States are females, thus making the former branch of the department more beneficial for the modern boy to study. After completing the Accounting curriculum a pupil should be sufiiciently well trained to undertake the duties of a retail salesman, general office clerk, or a bookkeeper. Pupils following the Secretarial curriculum are required to master the difficul- ties offered by shorthand, typewriting, and ofIice procedures. Pupils finishing the Secretarial curriculum should have gained enough knowledge and skill to render valuable stenographical services in a present-day business firm. INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT The Industrial Arts Department furnishes an outlet for the students not wish- ing to undertake the higher educational studies. It offers complete instructions in Mechanical Drawing, Electrical Construction, and Woodwork and gives the pupil an excellent opportunity to prepare for some form of trade activity. '..' My k . ..- , , A 7 .ff ' , .,kA . -L ' . 1 3 . l 1 - ,L Q 3 Q, 3 ,W V: . shi JAMES IVICKELVEY of Mathematics Depart- mentg GLADYS PHAROAH, Commer- ' ' N Librarian' ' cial. FRANKLI CHARLES RINK. School ROWENA RUSSEL. Secretary to JOSEPH SHANE, ...egg ?g9a.-

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E 5 , .J .veqc 4.4 , 1.4.4 J Two courses in agriculture have been added to the department this yearg hortif cultural enterprises and crop production and management. SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The lessons revealed by the records of the past will prove beneficial to the wise man or woman of tofday and will provide a basic guidance for his future actions. That which has already been attempted and has proved unsuccessful will not then lend a hand in marring the perfection of the present world. It is the constant de- sire of a good American citizen to preserve the high standards of liberty and def mocracy introduced and maintained by our forefathers. They will not be pre- served unless our youth are led to understand and love them. It is the aim of the Social Science Department to provide the youth with this understanding, to equip him with a stable knowledge of the past, and to convey to him the true meaning of American spirit. PHYSICAL EDUCATION Without health one is greatly handicapped in providing the initiative required in undertaking one's mental vocations. To see that the boy or girl acquires and maintains this necessity is the task of the Health Department. A thorough phy- sical examination is given each student at the beginning of the school year. All students in the 7th, Sch, 9th, and 10th grades, unless excused by a doctor's cer- tificate, have two free periods a week in which they are required to attend physif cal education classes. Owing to the difficulties met last year in running intra- mural sports, competitive games have been arranged for these regular gym periods. Physical Education provides another outlet for students to spend their leisure time in a worthwhile manner. I WARD JOHNSON, Industrial Artsg LAMBERT JOSEPH, Head of English Departmentg CATHERINE LAMER, Commercialg WILLIAM LANDIS, Commercialg EVELYN LING, Commercialg I-IAROI.D LUTZ, History and Physical Education, ELIZABETH McCLURE, Englishg FLORA MCCULLY, Commercialg MARY MCGREGOR, Englishg FERNE Mdl-IENRY, History and Art. -meg Rea... 5. 1 or iff

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se, J...-.J J .J .1cJcJ..Je L' INDIEN HOUSEHOLD ARTS The Household Arts Department is provided to give the girls of the school a chance to attain knowledge, experience, and efficiency before undertaking the problems of modern home life. The department is divided into two sections, namely, Clothing and Foods, the latter being recommended for boys as well as girls. The clothing classes not only take up the clothing problems such as selecf tion, construction, care, and repair, but related problems like appearing to advant- age, health and economy in dress, spending the family income, and making our homes more attractive. The food classes include a study of such problems as marketing, home furnishing budgeting, nutrition, child care and feeding, home nursing, care of the sick, family laundry, meal work, and food preparation. MUSIC DEPARTMENT The music Department furnishes the individual with a convenient as well as an educational early training in music and provides him with the ability to enter some more eminent musical or- ganization in the future. The value of the department to the school and the students can best be designated by enumerating some of their classes and organizations. Twelve instrumental class. es, separate junior and senior classes, orchestras, mixed choruses, pit orchestra, boys, glee club, senior choral, and seven sections of junior high school music classes, the latter being a state re- quirement for seventh and eighth grade pupils, all have their place in the curriculum of the de- partment. The success of the department is most evident, approximately three hundred and fifty students taking part in the above activities. The department as a whole contributes to the part- icipants personal and sociai development. LIBRARY The Library offers to the students a wide variety of worthwhile literature, an excellent collect- ion of reference books, and an ample supply of the best magazines and newspapers. An average of thirty seven hundred students per week make use of the opportunities offered by this spacious room with a seating capacity of one hunbred and twenty. ln appreciation of the students' inter- est in the library, the school has added three hundred new additions to its collection this year. RAY and and .seal 1940... - 'gl 16 Ties