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

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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

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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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MUSIC That music is not neglected is certainly an understatement. Port’s band and chorus are well instructed. Our instructors believe in the fact that to make a good musician, you must begin teaching him when he is young. And the young are taught. We know—for the silence of many study halls is broken by a youngster playing the scale on his shrill instrument. And don’t we see Mrs. Nadal with her attendance roster rounding up the delinquents to attend choir practice. They learn to sing by singing—often. Our curriculum has been briefly outlined. But we must not forget the library, the place where much knowledge is available for the student who wishes to get it. A great aim of public school education is to make the student capable of self-education. And self-education begins in the library. ten Joe Studholmc Dona Tubbs Nancy Wennerstrom