Lansdowne High School - Lahian Yearbook (Lansdowne, PA)

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job 'Hunting Clarence Pfeitz Helen Stephens Dale Smith Margaret Stevens Howard Hershoclq janet Felter Roy Kraber Mildred Anlqeny up R D. Sciuhba and P. Lee find disliwashing job in boys' cooking class is fun We Learn Useful Facts to Prepare Us for Jobs, Home and Community School isn't all learning in theory. Each student can also learn to use his hands and to master skills which may be used to earn money upon graduation. Any girl knows that if she has attained speed and accuracy in typing and shorthand that she will have a job waiting for her when she graduates. The business department prepares girls for positions as stenographer. Or, if she prefers, a businessfwomanf tofbe may master the working of office machines and take up work with them come june. Boys aren't left out either. While every boy who takes a course in woodshop may not want to become a carpenter, he certainly will enjoy being able to HX the broken chairleg at home. Or he may find use for meta lcraft if only as a hobby for relaxation. A wouldfbe engineer can learn whether he will be really happy in the work by doing a little mechanical drawing. Nothing will help out a girl's clothes allowance so much as being able to make her own clothes, and someday maybe the clothes of her children. Sewing class offers a make while you learn course, and what girl doesn't like to show off with a new recipe learned in cooking? All this is training, useful for all, from the Various parts of our school.

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Grace Srraley Lawrence Richards Pat Silverstein Edwin Snyder Bella Graham Politics We Democratically Discuss World, National, Local Problems Kansas gives 18 votes for Mr. Eisenhower and four votes for Mr. Taft. Members of the junior American history classes learned a lot about a ref publican form of government when they attended a model nominating convention as a part of their study of American government. The convention carried out its meeting just like a regular Republican convention, with high school students filling all oflices and each school representing a state or territory. Electioneering went on before the voting, and moving speeches for each candidate stirred delegates to noisy demonstrations with flying paper, huge signs, and booming drums. The seniors learned about the government of the world when some of them took part in a model United Nations general assembly meeting. Again the meeting was patterned after a real U.N. assembly and various schools took the parts of member nations. The problems faced by our national administrators can be better understood when one has faced similar problems. Therefore the Student Council not only helps in maintaining good governmentg it is a practical lesson in economics. Representatives to the council are elected from each homeroom. Each spring the nominees for ollice hold a campaign and in May the campaign rally explodes in the auditorium. Each presif dential candidate has a senior campaign manager who explains the merits of his candidate. The nominees make speeches and the school retires to vote by secret ballot. This is all very similar to our nation's governf ment. The Student Court carries on the lesson, taking up the judiciary part of our government. The court, run entirely by students, tries those who have acted against school rules. Debates and panel discussions in history classes help each person to see the points of View of others, and to establish opinions of his own. The aim of our history classes is a better understanding of our nation with the result of better government. a si :WELL M Smllille . Mr. Drake points out center of U. S. population to H. McCall and E, Sproul in American history class

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