Logansport High School - Tattler Yearbook (Logansport, IN)

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Math, simple or complex, blueprints modern living However interesting and informative a class may be, students are still happy to turn in books at the semester's end Mathematics, thousands of years old, is essential to modern inventions: it enables engineers and scientists to test theories before putting them into practice. Conse quently as each year passes, applications of math become increasingly significant for this is an age of jet aircraft, nu clear fission, and billion-dollar budgets In recognition of the necessity for thor ough knowledge of mathematics the state board of education requires that every student earn four credits in the subject Academic students take algebra and geom etry home economics and business pupils general arithmetic Industrial arts boys have a choice of algebra or arithmetic Mrs Buchanan Mr. Crabill Mrs. Ensfield Mr. Peconga Mr. Pruitt Mr. Rice

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Art and home ec share the bond of self-expression Home economics, overlooked or underrated by many students, is of value to every girl and has recently become the basis of many interesting and profitable careers. The course provides pleasure for the cook or the artist, savings for the girl who makes her own clothes, and training for the housewife and mother of the future. ln addition to making and repairing gar- ments, clothing students examine textiles and discover the effects of bleaches and dyes. To complete a study of etiquette, members of foods classes try their manners by dining in a restaurant. Girls in home nursing have two nine-week classes: one is concerned with the baby and the pre-school child, the other has as its main topics first-aid and ways of caring for the sick. Art, an aid in planning room arrangements and colors, is required on the home eco- nomics course, but earning a credit does not end the art work of many students, who often continue glass etching, pottery- making, sketching, or painting as hobbies. Surrounded by girls designing model rooms or clothes, Cor- vin turns a block of salt into a pair of fighting cats Miss Healey Miss Hull Miss Rhinesperger Mrs. Webster A These girls know there is more to a foods class than lust cooking 1 after a laboratory period, the kitchen must be scoured and scrubbed 23

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Paper and tape-if changed to models of many-sided figuresehelp solid geometry classes visualize difficult problems. All mathematics is cumulative, one step leads to Mr. Shanks Mrs. Troy the next, thus the ability to solve a complicated problem, regardless of its type, depends upon occur- acy in performing the basic operations-addition, subtraction, multiplication, division - and upon familiarity with the various methods of application. From the first grade to the twelfth, the study of mathematics is simply a means of acquiring new tech- niques while developing more facility with the old. 25