Port Allegany Union High School - Tiger Lily Yearbook (Port Allegany, PA)

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THERE IS MUCH TO LEARN: The Primary Business of the School Is to Teach Students Subject Matter. COMMERCIAL Porky Freeman eight AGRICULTURE AND SHOP Agriculture is another practical course, the purpose of which is to teach students the fundamental skills of farming. Its facilities, which are modern, are located in the building behind the Smith house. Regardless of the course selected, all boys take instruction in Shop. From it, they learn to do many comparatively simple yet important jobs. This department has been greatly improved. Lathes and other types of machinery are now available to the student. Helen Benson Port Allegany High School offers three courses: Academic, Commercial, and Agriculture. The school also provides instruction in health and physical education and in vocal and instrumental music. Perhaps the curriculum is not extensive enough, but it does reach most of the students. The Commercial course is a practical one which is taken by many students who will complete their formal education in high school. Facilities for the course are adequate. People are taught typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and other basic office work. Having completed this course, they are ready for immediate employment.

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There is much to learn. The school introduces us to the infinite realm of technical, practical, and historical facts and to beauty and ideas as expressed in art, music, and literature. The sciences make us aware of our physical and biological environment and help to prepare us for future work and calculations. The arts introduce us to the cultures of all people, to the ideas of great men and to the achievements of great men. Studying achievements and studying ideas make us humble and, realizing our own littleness, make us work. The primary business of the school is to teach students subject matter.

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ACADEMIC There are many students who wish to continue their education. To prepare themselves for college work, they study the Academic subjects. Emphasis is placed on languages, sciences, and mathematics. Numerous students leave Port High with four years of Latin and two years of French in addition to English. Physics, chemistry, biological science, the algebras, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, and the various histories are also included in their curriculum. Kay Burleson The Commercial course will help some of our students to be efficient secretaries or successful business men. Agriculture will help our boys to take advantage of nature’s goodness and to become good farmers. And perhaps the Academic course will aid in producing the engineers, scientists, ministers, teachers, and scholars who will add culture and vision to the practical and workmanlike. flint Bob Lemmler