Phillipsburg High School - Karux Yearbook (Phillipsburg, NJ)

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TI llR'l l.lQX SCENE iv ss Y ' 1 77 etw een ehezu sals The lfnglish llepartment ol' any high school has a real task in getting our own language across to the ayerage stualent. Klost ol' this alillieulty is he- cause so many forces are at work to tear alown the proper use ol the language. Uur lfnglish Department has put forth untiring etliorts to get lfnglish across to the stualent hoaly. It has coyereal well the usual es- sentials in grammar. ln literature. the stualy of plays. prose. noyels. antl poetry lhoth classic anal moalernj has proyen to he stimulating anal yaluahle. One of the thrills ol' an lfnglish teacher is to stimulate the pupil to a proper expression ol' his own ialeas. Nluch has ha-en alone along this line hy aliscussions ol' current eyents. compositions. anal practical proiects ol' various kinals. ln all of such proiects the pupils took great interest. especially when the aliscussions or topics were along the lines ol' present alay atliairs. Most stualents realize more than eyer hefore the importance ol' mathematics. Now. since the war has hroken upon us. the stualents ol' l,.ll.S. are pur- suing this course with much more yigor anal interest. A great aleal of army engineering anal prohlems of war are aialeal hy a knowlealge ol' mathematics. llesialcs. this suhject trains one to think anal reason anal in these alays we must he ahle to solye our prohlems clearly anal rationally. There are calculations which are important lor the husiness anal practical siale hoth. .XII ol us are aware that science plays an impor- tant role in our lite anal amhitions ot' toalay. XXI' can hoast ol' an eytensiye anal thorough science course in our high school. The classes in luotli the hiological anal physical sciences aial the stualents not only tor tha t'uture.ihut also for the aleyelopment ol their charac- ters. lliology teaches us the proper care ol' our hoaly anal the essential llooals neealeal in our aliet. Chemistry teaches us the make-up anal uses ot' the familiar metals anal acials. Physics giyes us a wialer knowlcalge on these lines. 5111lf1r1' 'lif11'r111gf1

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l0L'R'l'l:l.N llonionrl Vive la lfrancel To the lelt is a pic, ture ol' the -lth perioal lirench class, talaing time oll' to pose lor an intelleatnal portrait: not that the class itsa-ll' is not intellectual. lor it is. Nliss llialalisonis nnnsnal way ol presenting tlia- lirencli language to her stnalents has maale lfrench one ot' the most interesting stnalies in P. ll. S. The heantv. culture. anal lile ol' lfrance liairlv lives anal hreathes in her classrooms. llnring the year the classes have talien in lfra-ncli motion picf tures shown here at school anal at Lalayette College. The classes have also helal song tests alter school. anal ohserveal the nation-wiale French week hy presenting a program in assemhly. XVhen a stualent pursues the lour-year Latin course. he receives not only a linowlealge ol' that lan- guage along the grammatical lines. hnt also hecomes familiar with the important writers ol' that time. The Sllltlv' ol Latin also aials the stnalent in other snhieets. Une hnals it easier to aliscern the meaning ol' nnliam- iliar lfnglish worals through a lanowlealge ol' Latin. Latin teaches a stnalent to think clearly anal to always he on the alert. Xlany terms in Nlealieine anal Law anal other professions .are alireetly aleriveal from the Latin. .X thorough linowlealge of this snhiect aials one in the lintnre. Une of the greatest aalalitions to our cnrricnlum this year was the annexation ol' a full course in l'roh, lems ot' .Xmerican Democracy to our Social Science Uepartment. The teachers worlaeal haral to set forth the alemocratic principles anal prohlems of our gov ern- ment. Xlany new reference hooks were pnrcliaseal which put to the stualents' use a wiale ainonnt ol' re- search material. This is consialereal a valnahle aalali- tion hecanse it helps to molal the younger generation into intelligent anal ahle people to talse part in this great alemocracy ot' onrs anal to hnilal leaalers lor the future. The htlliils also stnalieal in aletail The Consti- tution ol' the Lvniteal States in aalalition to the regular History eonrse. Since the Commercial Department has heen suh- alivialeal into three distinct units. much progress has heen alevelopeal in specilie training. These alepart- ments are: .Xcconnting. Secretarial anal Clerical. They cover over 511 per cent ol' the entire stnalent hoaly. Few people realize the amount of civic work alone hy memhers ot' the Senior Commercial Classes. Some of this worla inclnales aalalressing envelopes for the town ol' Phillipshnrg anal other alistricts: the .Xnti- tnhercnlosis Society: making otit mailing lists :intl ail- alressing envelopes for the local Real Cross anal .Xmeri- can Legion. ln aalalition to these items ol' eivic vvorlx. certain work is alone for the school: also. alistrict graale carals. monthly attenalance reports. anal other school reeorals. Xlanv of our graduates have entereal liigh'-i' institutions ot' learning or gone alirectly into the husiness worlal. The recorals which these graalnates have achia-veil malie ns jnstly pronal. lfz lll1fK1ll'I'lIl'S5,