Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

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R. Mack (». Hahn an I C. Rroadbrnt N. Stewart E. Banyai are • English English class is a familiar scene to all Lansdowne students. Here, midst a constant battle of verbs and nouns, commas and semicolons, the students try their skill at written and oral composition. In their travels down the highways and byways of literature, they meet most of the world’s important authors and become acquainted with many of their works. In later years, English will prove its worth by contributing greatly to the success of industrious students. • Art One of the busiest departments in L.H.S. is our art department headed by Miss Davis. Indirectly the committees from this department are responsible for success of our dances and shows, for their clever decorations and scenery provide an adequate and pleasant background for our social life. Their work can be seen throughout the school in the form of posters and pictures, and the murals brightening our cafeteria were painted by Miss Davis and her students. This year the art department is planning a spring art show, which is to be a detailed performance of students actually at work, living portraits, and many other interesting things connected with art and this department. Miss Davis deserves a salute from our class of 1941 for her splendid cooperation and assistance during our four years here in Lansdowne High School. Under her trained guidance, the school is made into a finer place in which to live and L.H.S. students and our artists of tomorrow are given much-needed experience. • Library A world with a thousand worlds! A world of infinite potentiality whose resources arc easily discovered and developed by just one tool, a mind of imagination! Books are written to be read. The finest collection of great literature is nothing if the pages of the volumes are never uncut, for a book without readers is a general without an army. We are fortunate, whether or not we realize it, in having a school library so remarkably complete in fiction, non-fiction, magazine, and research material. It is there for the finding just by looking. • Debate Mister chairman, honorable Judge, worthy opponents, and—With Mr. Howard Drake as coach, the debating team of Lansdowne spent the season arguing whether or not the Federal Government should own and operate the Electric Utilities. Although the season was not overly successful as far as victories were concerned, it was successful in that the members of the two teams gained self-confidence and experience. The negative team, captained by Fred Selby, star rebuttalist,” included Jean Mosley, as interrogator, Robert Stoughton, as second constructive speaker, and Janet Patterson, as first speaker. Their most successful debate was a win over Bridgeport with a score of 300 to 350. The affirmative team, made up of Betty Dallam, re-buttalist,” Margretta Van Dyke, interrogator, Stephen Pease, second speaker, and Albert Tolley, first speaker, also chalked up their most successful victory against Bridgeport. 22

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mers, roaring saws, and grinding planers issue forth. At any time, while walking down the corridors, you may meet the low, flat truck carrying work from the store room to the shop. In the spring when most jobs are nearly completed. the odors of paint, varnish, linseed oil, and stain fill this end of the school. And as the work is done and proudly carried home, you will encounter a never-ending stream of end tables, magazine baskets, what-nots, ping-pong tables, shoe boxes, garden chairs, and book cases. Here, too, the stage crew can turn if they need a set built for a production, and the boys on special work will be ready to turn it out for them. •Art Metal Art Metal is one of the new courses added to this year’s curriculum. It expresses the modern trend in education toward self-expression in the manual arts. Material covered by the Art Metal program is nearly all non-tcchnical and requires no special knowledge. Taught by Mr. Hersh, the course is offered to Juniors and Seniors one period a week for one year only. Besides its educational value, it allows the student to build practical objects for use in the home; the only cost involved being that of materials, which are bought wholesale for the Industrial Arts department. The work is divided into two types, i.e., wrought iron and sheet metal. Sheet metal work requires fewer complicated maneuvers but is fairly difficult, requiring the craftsman to turn out intricate jobs such as ash trays and serving dishes. Under wrought iron work comes a variety of products and operations consisting of lamps, fireplace screens, wall flower brackets, and all projects dealing with bent strips of iron. The student learns how to flare, flute, drill, and rivet, operations which arc sometimes liable to make wrecks out of both the iron and students. • Surveying Lansdownc’s on the map. Yes, and the Senior surveying squad is putting it there. Supervised by Mr. John Tammeryn, this year’s group has started to survey the new homes that have been built in Lansdowne in recent years. Each squad of five men lays out a plan of the new streets and then places on it the houses. Drawings are then made to scale and mounted on the large school district chart which hangs in Dr. S. N. Ewan’s office. The work, which is done during the class period, after school, and on Saturdays, is a good taste of actual work in the field for these advanced surveyors. The Junior class still maintains its repertoire of preliminary projects, but they too will carry on the work next year, and it will continue year after year until the job is finished. Little is usually known of the work done by the boys who take surveying, but this year the men who work the transits, tapes, Philadelphia rods, and levels have concrete evidence to show for their time; and the school is getting a welcome addition to its district map. Those who do this job will have valuable experience, experience which should stand them in good stead in college and in their later life when they become the engineers, architects and road-builders of the nation. I). Fallon, H. CkkhI, C. Muhly make- use of circular saw, drill, and anvd.

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ART I..H.S. artists: Smyrl, McKclvey, Scv.am.in. Pollock, Saunders, Hr uni, Hoycc, I twcy, Hahn, ami Hyland at work at their drawing boards in the hi h school art room. LIBRARY I I hurman enters library door as G. Mead and I). Shell check l »»ks with the efficient student librarian assistant, A. Con-trtsiani. 23 ENGLISH English students: Harvey, Fielding, Buckson. McDowell. Nickels, Miles, Gocller, Wetzel, Hill, Newell, Ostrander, Meyer. Twesten, Yates, Yeager, Muth, H. Ru| p, I . Rupp. Hallman, Gardner, Martin, Marsh, Rebstock. DEBATING Pros and cons bein ; heard by Tolley, Y’an Dyke, Dewey, Rodgers, Pease, Patterson, Tome, as Fred Selby presents his case.