Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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HOME ECONOMICS One of the necessary departments of any high school is the Home Economic Department. This department of Murphy High School is ably directed by Miss Annie Louise Smith. Tn the foods course, students are not only taught the cooking of foods, but the arrangements of table silver, and the balancing of the diet. One interesting feature of the Home Economics Department is their style show, given as an assembly program, in which the girls of the clothing class model dresses, suits or pajamas that they have made. Other subjects offered in this department are Household Manage- ment, Homemaking and Child care; all very interest- ing. No girl will regret having taken any of these courses. INDUSTRIAL—FINE ARTS Cooking, shops and music courses make up the Industrial and Fine Art Department. It has at its head Mr. H. N. Hubbard. These courses usually are composed of projects and educational matter which interest the students. Consequently, they do their best in these subjects of tools, materials and products, which make up a coordinating per- sonnel. The teachers and instructors in this de- partment aid and cooperate with pupils, in as much as they believe the students are bettered if they learn by doing. Each year, this department puts forth numerous projects and programs, which takes them step by step toward making and com- posing the greater, most worthy projects of life. LANGUAGE Latin, French, and Spanish arc the courses offered in the Language Department. Four years of Latin, four of Spanish, and two of French are taught. The Latin Department is composed of three teachers, Misses Tait, Gay, and Duffee, the latter being the head of that department. Mrs. Fulcher, Miss Rubira, Miss Clark, and Miss Sprad- lin make up the Spanish Department over which Miss Spradlin rules. Mr. Venman is the French teacher. This year there are five classes of Fresh- man Latin, five of Sophomore, one Junior, and one Senior. Spanish is taught to ten Freshman classes, six Sophomore, two Junior, and one S'enior. There are two classes of first year French, and two of second year French. [151

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Our Work BUSINESS Q }ty Students in the Department of Business have the splendid privilege of becoming technically proficient in office, shop, jpd field service and culturally efficient in the art of making the most of life’s opportunities. Courses of study and methods of procedure have been selected and adapted to that end. The training in bookkeeping, typing, and shorthand classes is not designed merely to develop skillful performance, but to inculatc the virtues of accuracy, punctuality, de- pendability and ambition as well. Business prin- ciples, business law, and economic geography are offered to provide such knowledge in these fields as experience has found to be necessary. Mr. Oscar Boland is the efficient head of this depart- ment. ENGLISH f y In the English Department, twenty-two teachers struggle with the youths of Mobile in the hope that they will not only speak and write good Eng- lish, but that they will, also, learn how to appre- ciate literature suitable to their ages. Among the special tools used in an effort to produce these results are the blue Fundamental booklets, the up- to-date texts in composition, and recent collections of classics which present worth while matter in most attractive form. Special courses which pro- duce results in the English field are public speak- ing, journalism, and dramatics. If the pupils take advantage of the opportunities offered by the De- partment, they will receive ample English training for meeting life’s situations. SOCIAL SCIENCE An excellent Social Science Department is one feature that proclaims Murphy’s efficiency as an institution of learning. This department affords such varied phases of science that every student is certain to contact it at least once. Murphy’s students are adequately supplied with data of both the past and present, as the history courses range from Ancient and Medieval to Current World History with Modern European World, and Ameri- can History included for good measure. These subjects are supplemented by courses dealing with the American government of today, and the prob- lems which retard its progress. These courses include Civics, Economics, and Social Problems. Ably directed by Miss Sallie Withers, this depart- ment educates Murphy’s students for better citizen- ship. M 41

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MATHEMATICS $ ' Murphy’s Mathematics Department offers one of the finest and most complete courses in the S'outh. The department is ably headed by Miss Anna Mary Selater. The usual mathematics require- ments for college entrance are two years. Arith- metic is not accepted. Our school offers a four year course, beginning with elementary algebra. This algebra is the basis of all higher mathematics and should be learned thoroughly. Plane geometry constitutes the second year course, forming the ground work for solid geometry in the last year. The third year course, is advanced algebra, neces- sary to trigonometry. Plane trigonometry and solid geometry are necessary to all college engi- neering courses. The last two years of mathematica are college courses. MUSIC The Music Department has been made one of the worthiest organizations in the school under the capable direction of Messrs. Claude Dahmer and L. L. Stookey. This department consists of the Girl’s Glee Club, Boy’s Glee Club, Freshmen Chorus, Orchestra, Band, Instrumental Music, and Applied Piano Music. Its purpose is not only to create a better understanding and appreciation of good music but to develop the pupils minds and learn to cooperate with their fellow students. The band and orchestra are always ready to do their part when music is needed at school plays, foot- ball games, assemblies, and holiday parades. Each year an operetta is usually produced which calls for the combined efforts of the entire Music Department. PHYSICAL EDUCATION y The Physical Education Department, started only a few years ago, has grown to be one of the finest, if not the finest in the South. Certainly, not many high schools can boast of three gymnasiums, a swimming pool, and an eight acre playground with a lighted football field. Courses are offered in physical education for the entire four years, being compulsory the first two years, and elective the last two. Freshmen are given a general course the first year to help them select some activity in which they are interested. At the end of the freshman year they are permitted to elect an activity which they wish to carry on through their sophomore year. M6J