Meyers High School - Colophon Yearbook (Wilkes Barre, PA)

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ART Miss MARION SIBGEL Artists at work. M U S I C MISS MARGARET CONSTINE Art is as old as history itself. Archiologists have traced man's modes of living from the drawings they found on cave walls and on fragments of pottery. When writing was in its infancy, it took the form of picture writing or hieroglyphics. Since the dawn of history, art has soared and has become one of the cultural trio of art, music and literature. Mn. JOSEPH SABLB Mus. LOIS MAYNARD Mn, EN50 L1v,4 77Zf'j7vt,a'czf ' Music lends its subtle flavor to the fine arts of every culture. It matters little whether its composi- tion is based on the oriental five tone scale or on the western eight tone scale, the enjoyment for the per- son listening is the same. Music in all its forms and modes is perhaps the best loved of the arts. It holds the power to incite men to passion or to soothe a crying child. One may be calmed while enjoying Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata or stirred to the heights of feeling while listening to the same com- poser's Ninth Symphony. The three teachers in the music department are to be commended for their successful efforts in music.

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HOME ECONOMICS ' 1 52 Mas. GRACE PHILLIPS MRS- RUTH COUI-TER Mus. MARY PLEBAN 4 Af as Cooks at work. To prepare girls for the responsibilities and activi- ties involved in homemaking and family living, the Home Economics suite for Senior High School is ar- ranged in three large areas. There is a modern kitchen with both electric and gas stoves, two refrigerators, a deep freeze and garbage disposal, a laundry area with a washer-drier combination and a large sewing room equipped with electric sewing machines, a fitting area and storage cabinets. The dining room area is furnished with a maple dining room suite, and the living room section fea- tures blonde mahogany furniture. The curtains in these areas were made by the department. Stitch and sew. . The Homemaking Department functions as a serv- ice organization as well as an educational department. The girls taking homemaking learn by doing the fur- nishing of food and decorations for many school func- tions. The cooking department prepares the refresh- ments served at P. T. A. meetings, the Senior Tea, the Key Club Luncheons, and the proms. The sewing department prepares for holiday and dance decora- tions, and costumes for dramatic events. This department also sponsors the Betty Crocker Homemaker Award, given each year to the senior girl having the highest score .in a test administered here. This year the award was received by Sandra Ferretti.

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HEALTH - - PHYSICAL EDUCATION MR. JOHN NAGLE MR. MINOR NAGLE MISS BEATRICE ROSENTHAL M155 PHYLL15 STQU1' Expert advice. Other departments in Meyers have modernized with the changing times, the Physical Education depart- ment is no exception. Along with two new instructors Mr. Minor Nagle, and Miss Phylliss Stout, Meyers' gym has also received a face-lifting. There are new lights, which permit better vision during gym classes and basketball games and there is a new floor, which was installed last year. This face-lifting is the main step forward in the Fit- ness department. Other improvements in the gym area are: the tram- poline, which was purchased a few years ago and a basketball rebounding machine, which is used pri- marily by the basketball team. The rest of the gym's equipment is fairly modern and is complete as to the types of apparatus it contains. There are horses , parallel bars, chinning' bars, mats and game equip- ment, which includes softball bats and balls, basket- balls, soccor balls, footballs and tennis rackets. In the gym class the instructor teaches the students teamwork and good sportsmanship. In this depart- ment the main objective of the instructor is to make students use their voluntary muscles so that their in- voluntary muscles, the heart and lungs especially, will develop more fully. Two other modern conveniences included in Meyers' Physical Fitness Program are the swimming pools. In the pool areas students are taught many dif- ferent skills but the main idea here is to teach the students life saving and water safety. Conditioning counts. The gym -classes are arranged so that students have exercise outside as well as inside the gym. During the first and the sixth intervals the classes are held out- side. In the fall, gym classes play football and soccor and in the spring they play softball and tennis. During the winter months classes are held inside. The lirst part of the period is devoted to marching tactics, calisthenics, heavy apparatus and sometimes Physical Fitness Tests. The free play part of the period allows the students to either wrestle or play basketball. All in all Meyers' Physical Fitness Program is up to date in every way.