Delta High School - Del Hi Yearbook (Delta, OH)

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THE SCIENCE LABORATORY No school would be complete without a science laboratory. It occupies c necessary place in a scientific course. A laboratory is a place where a student nay acquire knowledge not gained from books. There he has an opportunity to actually observe the laws of nature. He also develops an ability to work with his hands. Delta High School has a laboratory of which we can be proud. The state inspector of schools stated that Delta has one of the three best equipped laboratories in Northwestern Ohio. The chemistry, biology, and general science classes ell use the laboratory as a place of study. 11ANUAL TRAINING The purpose of this department is not to produce skilled craftsmen, but to develop an understanding and appreciation of the perfection nan has attained in making things. The work of the department is designed to include the fundamentals of the various crafts: Ilech- anical drawing, blue-printing, woodwork, metal work, ceramics, and forging. Frequently merchants make their show windows available for displays of the products of this development.

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COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Our Commercial Department offers e couplete con-nercial course of study: Typev riting, Shorthand, Book- keeping, Business Arithnetic and General Business Science Next year additional courses in Public Speaking and Sales Eitnship will be introduced. I.!any of our students have been successful in obtaining office positions without additional training. The success of the departnent is due largely to the able instruction and leadership of Hiss Nau, who has been the head of the departnent since 1924. TROPHIES The trophies pictured here be? r incontrovertible evidence of the heights of supremacy to which Panther tens have attained in past years. The combined efiorts, hopes, ideals and perseverance of hundreds of D. H. S. graduates are combined here to inspire to greater heirhts the future standard bearers of the Old Panther Spirit.

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HOME ECONOMICS The ideal situation would be an arrangement whereby the teacher might visit the home of each girl and there, surrounded by the unlimited equipment with which most modern homes are furnished, reveal to her the mysteries and intricacies of cooking, sewing, and housekeeping This being impossible, the Delta School have provided the nearest to the ideal , a furnished home for the instructor to which the students may come to be taught in the natural surroundings of a home. Miss Kurtz has proven herself to be a master of the needle and pan and an excellent teacher of the best in housekeeping technique. Most of the boys from the rural districts enroll in the agriculture department. Here are brought together that which the scientific professors have learned about farming from their research experiments in the laboratory and that which the boys have learned from practical experience on the farm. Both groups have a lot to contribute to a better knowledge of the best methods and practices necessary to obtain the greatest returns from the soil. Mr. Tressler, the instructor, has proved himself a master of both the practical and theoretical phases of the best in agricultural practice. AGRICULTURE