Main Avenue High School - El Sombrero Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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 g©DED©E BS Z WCaECGT ELLEN SCHULTZ H Y MAY A' OTTO A. PFEIFFER ELIZABETH ADAMS CHARLOTTE STODDARD L.D. MOORE Twenty-five

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 The Science Department |lIE Biology Department has under its jurisdiction the following subjects; Botany, Physiology, Home nursing. Hygiene, Zoology and Agriculture. The Department as a whole stands for better living, deeper thinking, and a fuller understanding of one’s relationship with the universe. As a science it develops logical thinking, accurate observation, a.spirit of investigation and love of truth for truths sake. From the instructors point of view, the class room is the stepping stone to a greater future—a future not measured in dollars and cents but one that bears the marks of true success so well expressed by the following lines of Mrs. A. T. Stanley: “He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche, has accomplished his task; who left the world better than he found it; whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of the earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given the best he had; whose life was an inspiration, whose memory is a benediction.” The ideals of the Physiology department are thoroughly expressed in the following Health Letter No. 1 of the Life Extension Institute. “Personal Ilygine thoroughly carried out means restoring the noble ideals of the ancient Greeks for bodily health, efficiency, strength, endurance, symetry and beauty. It enormously increases our capacity to work to be happy, and to be useful. The ideals which, all should seek is that pride of physicial fitness which makes us anxious to render a good account of what ever is entrusted to our care, whether it be human body or business. Every sane person should realize that an obligation rests upon the occupant of the human body to keep it sound, clean, and efficient, to keep it a social asset, not a liability.” The Physics, Chemistry and General Science of our Science Department are represented by Mr. Pfeiffer, Mr. May, Mr. Moore and Miss Adams. Indeed we are living in an age of Science. The world war has presented economic problems that must be solved and can be sloved only by the aid of research in the modern science laboratories. Boys and girls alike realize the possibilities of future fields in electrical and chemical engineering. Indeed the past fifty years have seen our environment and conveniences of life transformed by the applications of the electrical experimentation to a degree undreamed of by even the most optomistic; yet the next fifty years will see even a greater transformation when the chemical engineer brings forth his secrets of the chemical laboratories. Indeed our science department even strives to teach that a correct understanding of Nature and Nature’s processes are absolutely essential to correct and complete living. Twenty-Jour

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Industrial Education mi reaching tlio High School, all students desiring industrial work arc required to take the prevoeational work before specializing in any particular kind of shop work. This prevocational work consists of eight different lint's of shop work, and drawing as follows: (1) Bench work. (2) Cabinet making or Mill-work, (3) Pattern making, (4) Moulding, (5) Forging, (( ) Machine shop Practice, (7) Machine drafting, (8) Architectural Drafting. Students spend one-half term each on the above subjects, thus requiring two years to complete all. In addition to the above instruction the prevocational students are given much vocational guidance information concerning the trade of the shop in which they are working. This information covers the economic conditions of the trade such as the hours and wages; the working daps per year; period of earning ability; working conditions as to the affect on the health of the worker; mental and physical strain of the work; function and the importance of occupation, etc. Also the students are being taken to local shops and plants where the work they are doing is being done commercially. After the student has completed the prevocational work, he is permitted to specialize in any one of the courses offered for the rest of his time in High School. Those pupils desiring an intensive trade training in the Machine-shop Practice or the Automobile repair may take the Smith-Hughes Machinists or Auto-Mechanics Course. They may enter these courses at any time provided they fulfill the requirements of the Smith-IIughes act. English is the only regular High School subject studied in this course, besides the shop work of these courses, all students take the related science and mathematics and drawing. It is probable that next year a term of work in economics and in citizenship, in addition to the above related work will be done in these courses. Twenty-six