Montebello High School - Golden Key Yearbook (Montebello, CA)

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HOME ECONOMICS In this department girls are taught how to prepare and serve foods, how to plan balanced menus, how to budget household expenses, and how to plan and make attractive garments inexpensively. The practical application of this training is seen in the breakfasts, luncheons, and dinners which are served during the year, and in the display of needlework during Public Schools week. Each cooking class is divided into small groups, each QD L-U with its hostess who plans, prepares, and serves the meal to her guests. Discussion and comment later bring out weak and strong points. Few banquets or dinners are served at school without help from the cooking girls. They may make sandwiches and cakes for a tea or they may help with the preparation and serving of a banquet. In the sewing classes girls are taught the economical way of making clothes, keeping in mind correct style and neatness in dressmaking. Some girls design their own patterns as well as making garments for others. In addition to this work there are classes in household science and home art and design, laboratory courses in which chemical properties and tests for foods, the identification of textiles by various tests, and methods of caring for textiles are studied. S 5 7 PHYSICAL EDUCATION Healthy bodies make sound minds might well be A the motto of this department, for it is here -that attention ' is given to proper exercise and play as an element of KT :txt Well rounded development. Minds weary from several ' fijlifk periods of concentration and bodies cramped from hours 5 X of sitting over desks are given relaxation and healthful 1, exercise 'for five periods each week for boys and three CQ for girls. The work is required of all, unless they are K excused by a doctor. h , Q J Formal drill constitutes part of the activity of the department with emphasis on posture and health habits. ' Much, is gained, however, in the informal competitive games between groups within the classes, for the exercise is then spontaneous and doubly helpful, The procedure in boys' classes varies as the different sports are in season. Since the boy in a competitive sport spendsmuch more than the required daily period in active participation in the activity after' school, 'he is excused from regu- lar physical education during the season of his special sport. Page Ei ghfeen

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LANGUAGES, LITERATURE and HISTORY VENI ' VID! Vlcl jj Spanish is a popular language subject in Southern kd X California, due in part to the nearness of Mexico. V. NA N - Three years of the subject are taught and by the end S Ss' of the course students are able to speak and write it eo? . , . .. K with a certain degree of fluency. In the activities of the R ' Spanish Club it is the only language used. T V Though not universally popular, Latin has its place in the curriculum. Two years of it are offered. In the field of English there are four years of in- g struction open to students with three years required for graduation. In this course training is given in the cor- rect use of the language. Sophomores are required to have one semester of oral expression. To meet this requirement two teachers, especially trained in speech work, conduct the speech classes and give drill in voice control and informal speaking. b Advanced work covers a study of the classics, formal grammar and com' position, with greater emphasis on originality and fluency of expression. journal' ism is offered as a substitute for advanced English to those with special writing ability. History is another generally required subject. It covers world history, which nearly all freshmen take, United States history and civics, which are required of juniors and seniors, and modern history and social problems. SCIENCE six ei? 9 s N I iv ,VS Many of the freshmen, including all those who are HQ taking a college preparatory course, enroll in general sci- ' -- , A ence. This course includes a very general study of sci- ence, touching briefly on all its phases by way of an in- , -i T troduction to its more detailed study later. Here experi- L I ' ments are performed by- the teacher, and the student notes l what is done and what results. For the college preparatory students biology is a re- 6 quirernent. A somewhat thorough study is made of plant and animal life in the first year, but in the second year it is studied more deeply with detailed consideration of many of the higher forms of life. Here pupil activity in- volves dissection of animals for the purpose of learning by actual observation the structure of the higher forms. This subject may now be substituted for chemistry as a requirement for graduation. - Other advanced science courses offered are chemistry and physics, chemistry being a graduation requirement unless cedit is earned in advanced biology, a new subject in the curriculum this year, or household science, open only to girls. Page' Seventeen

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M LIBRARY The school library contains approximately twenty-eight hundred volumes of reference books and works of fiction, travel, and biography. During the year 1935-1936 two hundred fifty new volumes were added in an effort to meet the in- creasing demands on library resources. As a further aid to students desiring reference material, a pamphlet service was installed this year. It contains an up-to-date collection of pamphlets on awide range of subjects catalogued for ready reference. Circulation for the year has increased about twentyffive per cent over last year. For the eight months ending May 1, thirteen thousand fifty-nine books and magazines were charged out to borrowers. These figures do not cover the large number of books and magazines used in the library. To aid in the administration of the library, student assistants are enrolled for regular work. These girls learn to do much of the routine work such as charging books, keeping daily records, and caring for the books, pamphlets, and other library material. ' CAF ETERIA The school cafeteria is under the supervision of Mrs. Shaw and Mrs. Sexson. They serve here daily about two hundred students and teachers. Seven girls as- sist in the kitchen, in serving, and in taking money at the counters, the latter un- der the direction of Miss Iune McMillan, who also keeps the accounts. Steps were taken this year to dress up the cafeteria. The Girls League pro- vided gay curtains for the windows and the art department painted a mural show- ing the foods obtained from the jungle. OFFICES J The three faculty executives of our school, the principal, vice-principal, and girls' adviser, have separate offices, and because of their indespensability in the school, each needs particular explanation here. Mr. Iacobs has the main office of the school, and also the business office. Not only does this office handle administrative affairs for the high school but it also supervises the eight grammar schools in the district and purchases all school supplies as well as handling employment and payment of employees. The vice-principal's office, under the direction of Mr. Love, handles the gen- eral administration of the high school. Here are Iune McMillan, secretary to Mr. Love and clficient guardian of records, and Paul Viljoen, attendance officer. In this office also problems of student programs, notices, departmental and group accounts, and the book store management are handled. i Mrs. Sykes' office takes care of -the merit records, the transportation of stu-T dents, employment of students, and transcript records. She also keeps all perman-L ent record cards and is supervisor of the council of grammar and high school P. T. Afs. She checks all girls on uniform dress and supervises a rest room for the girls who aresick during school. Page Nineteen