New Paltz High School - Huguenot Yearbook (New Paltz, NY)

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 In the nation as a whole, many schools do not offer high school sci-ence. Here we offer four years to meet the needs of the students and to train desperately needed future engineers. Coloring and writing are difficult at this age, hut look at these people work. The commercial department at our school is one of the largest. Shorthand; typing; bookkeeping; business law; management and arithmetic; salesmanship; secretarial practice, round out a good curriculum. In our elementary department, we try to recognize talent early and to develop it. One method is to give the young ones a try with the brush. In our art department, practical as well as aesthetic values are taught. Mechanical drawing contrasts with basic art.

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In our language classes, students experience the phenomena of listening to their own voice. .Music is an important part of our curriculum, from both the appreciation and performance standpoints. The library is an important part of our school, having reference and fiction works. Our shop department turns out many interesting objects that you see pictured as well as developing proper skills in working with wood, metal, and electricity. To be educated, one must be able to express himself. Our classes stress oral as well as written English. The classics and modern literature are studied.

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Over 10,000 schools in this country offer driver education. A recent survey shows that our students are glad that we are one of the 10,000. The hoys in our agriculture department get a kick out of working with the tractor. rhese girls in our homemaking class are learning some steps in making clothes. In our citizenship education department, an informed, broadminded person is the objective. Discussions, such as pictured here, enhance this particular goal. Some of the elementary students in one of our rural schools examine the characteristics of neat writing.