Oakville High School - Tillicum Yearbook (Oakville, WA)

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COMMERCIAL Commercial subjects are favorites with all the high school students who are qualified to take them. Miss Lirhus is the instructor. Beginning and advanced classes of typing are given. Elementary shorthand and bookkeeping are the other subjects offered. Fifty-two students are enrolled this year in the commercial department. DOMESTIC SCIENCE Domestic science is as popular with the girls as is manual training with the boys. Miss Berg has proved a very capable instructor in these subjects. She offers elementary and advanced sewing and cooking. The girls make many things to eat and wear. Miss Berg handles the eighth grade as well as the high school classes. PHYSICAL EDUCATION Physical education fox' girls and boys is taught by Miss Berg and Mr. Hall. These courses are new requirements this year, although the boys have had physical education previously. Many new reference books have been ordered and the courses have been made interesting with study, games, dances and hikes. LANGUAGES Languages are taught by Miss Lirhus, Mr. Putnam and Mrs. Garrigus. Those offered are Spanish, Latin and English. Two years of Spanish are taught by Miss Lirhus. Beginning Spanish is offered every other year. This year's class is Spanish two and has nine members enrolled. Latin is taught by Mrs. Garrigus. Two years are offered. First year Latin is given on the alternate year from beginning Spanish. This year's class is Latin one. There are ten students enrolled. English is handled by Mrs. Garrigus and Mr. Putnam, Mr. Putnam teaches Freshmen English and Mrs. Garrigus, the advanced courses. Since English is required, this department includes the entire enrollment of the high school, with the exception of five Seniors, who have two years of foreign languages. MATHEMATICS Math classes are presided over by Mr. Roe and Mr. Hall. Mr. Roe teaches Geometry and Mr. Hall, Algebra. A knowledge of circles and angles is no longer required for high school graduation, so the geometry class enrollment is not large, All freshmen are required to take algebra for graduation credit. U31

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Departments . . . SOCIAL SCIENCE Social science classes in the high school are handled by Miss Berg, Mr. Roe, and Mr. Putnam. History and civics is taught by Mr. Roe. This course is required of all Seniors. Social and vocational civics is required of all Freshmen. Miss Berg has 35 members in the class this year. Social and vocational civics aims to instruct students in better citizenship and to introduce them to the vocations, explaining their advantages and disadvantages. Mr. Putnam teaches world his- tory, an elective subject. ' SCIENCE ' Mr. Putnam is science instructor in the high school. His department offers general science for the Freshmen, biology for sophomores, and, on alternate years, chemistry and physics for upper classmen. Mr. Putnam has forty-nine enrolled in the three sciences this year. One year of science is required for high school graduation. MANUAL TRAINING Manual training is a very popular department with the boys. Mr. Hall has charge. The department has recently acquired a turning lathe, which permits the making of a greater variety of projects than was possible before. The first year course offers drawings and woodwork. First semester the boys take up drawing, producing twenty-five plates. Second semester is woodwork, in which the student draws his project, choses his material and constructs the pieces. Two small, simple pieces or one larger, more complex piece is made. Second year work is cabinet making. Forty-two students, including eighth graders, are enrolled this year. l17l

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