Marceline High School - Marcello Yearbook (Marceline, MO)

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Social Studies The courses of social studies deals primarily with the development of man through the ages-his cul- ture, his government, his accomplishments, and his failures. Today our civilization has developed into a very complex melting-pot. Therefore, a complete and accurate knowledge of the past history insures wiser decisions in our present age. Our present social studies courses consists of citizenship, world history, American history, and American problems. The latter, dealing with our own political economic and social and international rela- tions is intended, literally, to wake up our young America. Our generation will leave its imprint in history. and whether it be large or small, we hope it shall be worthy of proud acclaim. N1

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Biology assists the student in developing an un- derstanding of the biological world in which we live by pointing out the abundance of living things and their interdependence upon each other. Physics is the study of physical change, It is an advanced science given to students who wish to know the fundamental facts and principles upon which in- ventions. discoveries and the progress of science de- pends. Physics also tries to help show the relation between class room demonstrations and the activities of everyday life. Science The purposes of the different branches of science are multiple. The main purpose of all science is to satisfy the natural curiosity of the student in his sur- roundings. Because we live in an age of science, it is believed that a certain acquaintance with the science is desirable. The study of science gives a knowledge of scienti- fic terms and an understanding of the scientific prin- ciples. No one branch of science is more important than the other for the principles are interdependent. General science gives an over all picture of the content of science dealing in the biological, physical and chemical fields. General science gives the stu- dent a general knowledge which is useful even though the student does not make a career of science. lp A .Q

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The vocational agriculture department is still striving to serve the public in an efficient manner. The reason for installing vocational agriculture in the high school as set forth in the Smith Hughes Bill is to assist present and prospective farmers in becoming more efficient in farming. The meaning of present farmers. of course, is those now engaged in farming which are our adult farmers of which our veterans constitute a large part of that group. The prospective farmers are the high XB ' ' z if -' l f Agriculture school boys that are actually planning to farm for a lifetime occupation. To be able to enroll in the all day program of vo- cational agriculture, the boy must be able to carry on a supervised farming program. He must be able to show actual ownership of his projects which go to make up his supervised farming program. His in- struction on the farm is considered of as great if not greater importance than his instruction in school, The boys learn by doing in vocational agriculture. This year the boys have been able to show a total net profit of approximately Sl2,000.00. Their over all goal is to start as a freshman and continually build on to their supervised farming program. Within two ' years after graduation, they hope to have accumulat l ed enough stock to start farming on their own, O P instruction offered. We have an over all enrollment of about 180 in the agriculture department throughout the year. 31 of this number being the all day students, some prior graduates, others are veterans enrolled in the Institu tional-On-the-Farm Training Program, and of course the remainder of the adult farmers taking part in the