Plainfield High School - Milestone Yearbook (Plainfield, NJ)

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Our Do It Yourself Program Do you relish the thought of becoming an efficient homemaker? Are you seeking the opportunity to work with tools and machinery, or are a paintbrush and pallet more to your liking? Whatever the desire, the Industrial, Home and Fine Arts Department is ready to prepare students for a useful and satisfactory future by teaching them to use their hands as well as their heads. Fine Arts students learn principles and elements of design as well as basic fundamentals. To prepare food, plan meals, and buy wisely are the objectives of the Home Arts course. Additional fields covered are grooming, social etiquette, sewing, selection of mate- rials, and interior decorating. Modern Living helps to prepare students for serene human relationships, while Arts and Crafts and Interior Decorating are accompanying courses of study. Boys in Industrial Arts classes can learn different trades in auto, machine, metal, woodwork, and electric shops, and they can also study mechanical drawing. In this department they are instructed in basic fundamentals and the handling of various tools and devices. INDUSTRIAL HOME AND FINE ARTS Front Row: Julius Senyshyn, Robert P. Schultz (front), John J. Pearson, William Gordon (front), and Kermit A. White- head, department head. Back Row: Edison R. Burden, D. Lina Lukinov, Helen G. Morton, Marian G, Berry, Elizabeth M. Geiss, and Franklin E. Wurster. “BEAT THE WHITES OF TWO EGGS .. . —Bar- bara Gibbens is given expert advice by Mrs. Berry in the making of a cake. THE FINISHING TOUCH—Mr. Schultz aids Arthur 18 Freeman with the last, but most important, step.

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Achtung! Attention! Nota Bene! Sil Vous Plait! COMPRENEZ VOUS? — Mr. Edwin Faust teaches his period 3-|W the basics of French. What would happen if a P.H.S. student made a journey to a foreign country? . . . Of course! he'd probably have to speak the native tongue. Many of these students would feel quite at home bec ause they have taken advantage of one of the three year courses offered in French, Spanish, or German. Right here at P.H.S. he might find that his own English vocabulary has improved because he has learned to understand the foreign derivations of English words. Speaking, comprehending, reading, and writing the language are the main objectives of the modern language class. This year special emphasis has been placed on oral recitation. Conversational French is offered to students of second and third year French. Students in the four year Latin course learn:to read Latin literature of the classical authors and to improve their English vocabulary. A number of activities, inc luding regional contests and clubs for each of the four languages, are conducted during the year; and at the annual language banquets students can don native dress and partake of foreign foods. LEARNING LATIN—Jo Ellen Bronstein shows Miss Horn's second period 2W class how to conjugate an irregular verb. LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Left to right: Rose Franco, Ellen M. Stubbs, Robert 1. Cloos, Eleanor Horn, Katherine M. DeVlaming, Edwin M. Faust, department head; Ruth B. Denker, Anne K. Campolattano, Celia C. Whitford.

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“Take a Letter...’ comptometer. STOP THE CLOCK—Mr. Warren Sterling ends a five minute timing in his first period Typing for Personal Use class. COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Left to right: Nora Conahey, Elaine Morecraft, Ruth S. Wyer, department head; Marie Maurel, Warren Sterling, and Joseph R. Malt. Missing: Adella L. Wotherspoon. The sounds of clacking typewriters and dictation for shorthand can be heard on the second floor of P.H.S. as future secretaries and clerks learn the skills neces- sary to prepare them for their chosen vocations in the business field. The Commercial Department offers courses that enable students to learn the '‘abc's'' of many differ- ent business fields. For instance, stenography, typing, and a course in secretarial practice are available for pupils interested in becoming secretaries; bookkeeping, business mathematics, and clerical office practice are subjects that the future clerical worker would take. Special courses given are Business Law and Mer- chandising, Economic Geog raphy and Salesmanship, and Junior Business Training. Interested students are given the opportunity to visit business firms to see how they operate during the year. This visit involves actual participation by the students in the firm's work, A HELPFUL HINT—Mrs. Ruth Wyer assists Carole Messana as she practices on the by,