Oroville Union High School - Nugget Yearbook (Oroville, CA)

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40-'LBLQIL .gdfiffdafe QW There are three forelgn langul ges taught at the hlgh school two years of Latln two years of French and three of Spamsh Spanlsh IS pop ular because of Cal1fOI'I113S back ground 1tS numerous place names the proxlmlty of MEXICO and the Lood nelghbor pollcy What do we do m our fore gn language classes We read 1n the AW' warm 'Q 61,197 Mrs McGowan Mrs Chandler nat1ve tongue about the hlstory cus toms and folflore of the people whose language we are studymg We enjoy learnmg and Slllglflg the1r songs We learn why and how they celebrate certam holldays Chrlstmas for ex ample Of course It IS always pleasant to learn about people who do not rush through hfe and take t1me to l1ve ff-2'

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156664106 'QF Q atson r Chemlstrv has a very fundamen tal place and 1mportant functlon to perform IH the h1gh school curr1cu lum F1rst It fulf1lls the reQu1rement of a laboratory clence for college entrance Second It should be taken by all college preparatory students and lb of speclal slgnlfxcance to student enter1ng the sc1ent1f1c and eng1neer mg flelds lncludlng med1c1ne nurs 1ng home economlcs and agrlculture In the thlrd place lt has a l'11Qll cultural value s1nce lt 1S the Founda t1on of all the phys1cal sc1ences and g1V6S one knowledge of the basl thmgs of l1fe and thelr relat1onsh1ps General SCIGHCG IS an mtrodu t1on to the SCIEHCGS a student may take 1n later Hlgh School vears It 15 compr1sed of un1ts 1n Blology Phys 1cs Chemlstry Hyg1ene together W1th a certa1n amount of Geology Geography Physlography and Nu tr1t1on Fleld tr1ps classroom exper1 ments and natural spec1mens add to the collectlve and 1nd1vldual 1nte est 1n thls subject Its practlcal na ture affords much scope for the aver age student boy or g1rl from any area For those puplls Who are col lectors lt povldes a Wonderful fleld from rocks to the var1ous grass se eds and leaves to levers Let us develop an 1nqu1r1ng m1nd a reasonmg m1nd and a m1nd that knows cause and effect' lf,

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edmhtedctdl 9293 ILA 'MWF' glue' MISS Belk M1ss Holland At the end of the flrst semester there were over three hundred mem bers 1n he so called commerclal classes F1rst year typlng wh1ch IS open to three upper classes had 166 en rolled Th1s seemlngly large group lS qulte normal as most students be heve that a year of typlng w11l be a deflnlte asset 1n whatever the1r fu ture work may be College and un1 verslty preparatory students more and more are reguardlng typmg abll 1ty as a must General BUSIHGSS 1S the Sopho more commerclal class and lt em phaslzes common buslness practlces appl1cable to everyone Shorthand and Advanced Typ mg are more techn1cal subjects Wh1Ch glV9 speclal tra1n1ng to those who llltefld. to use them after gradu atlon Bookkeepmg IS taken mostly by senlors sometlmes just to f1ll out a requ1red program but more often because they are mterested 1n lt V0 catlonally The two ma1n mterests are as a stepplng stone to accountmg and ln order to galn knowledge of how to keep records for ones own buslness Bookkeepmg students th1s year have enjoyed and apprec1ated then new ofhce type desks wh1ch they haxe used for home room desks as well as for class