Reading Memorial High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Reading, MA)

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fd: .g 25. K fi w .mf ., QE A: --I.. ., 5 1 4 at .X P.. Z, , , ' left to right: Ernestine H. Mac- donald, library, James L. Roth, music, Geraldine F. Roy, art. . f ' 5 FINE ARTS The music, art, and literature programs of- fered at RHS add a polish to our busy school schedules. Our library is well supplied with books to meet everyone's taste in reading and also has an excellent selection of reference ma- terial and periodicals. Mrs. Macdonald, who is always cheerfully at hand to help students make their choices, instructs the freshmen each year in the use of the library. Frequent rehearsals and performances of band, orchestra, and chor- us, conducted by Mr. Oliver and Mr. Roth, give those gifted in such areas a chance to develop and display their talents. The art classes offer creative activities that enable the student to de- velop skills in handling a variety of media and i ,g gitgh 2 A T 7' in X X A f an -, ,gy 44 Creative ideas transformed into design and color. in addition instill an understanding and appre- ciation for all art forms. Our fine teachers and complete facilities in the Fine Arts Department make our school a richer institution. K. Q... i1 A Maybe we'Il find the answer to the 864,000 question. Another Harry James?

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Seated, left to right: Claud- ette Hall6, Arthur L. Spon- cer, chairman, Helen M. Hart. Standing: Elisabeth A. Dag- digian, Gerard C. Vincent, Edward W. Roewar, Rose E. Chiesa. FOREIGN LANGUAGES An important part of the curriculum of a student who desires a liberal education is the study of a foreign lan- guage. Whether he takes Latin, French, or Spanish, the first year student devotes a great deal of time to learning vocabularies, coniugations, and declensions. However, the advanced language student finds all this work has been well worth the effort when he discovers the exciting ad- ventures of a Mexican iumping bean in El Frijolito Salton, when he scans Vergil's Aeneid for the first time, or when he learns of modern French life and times in Topaze and Le Silence de la Mer. Something of the culture, geography, and history of the country and its people is presented to make the study of a foreign language more interesting and to help the student understand how the language he is studying developed and why the characters in the litera- ture he is reading act and react as they do. Amo, amas, amat-even in Latin IV? 2

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Seated, left to right: Frederick C. Wales, Anne T. landini, Ardis V. Chapman. Standing: George W. Hull, Derick V. Willson. A tense moment when the first proof is pulled from the etching press L PRACTICAL ARTS Girls in RHS who intend to enter the field of home man- agement or the correlated branches of industry and busi- ness may take sufficient courses in practical arts to do so. Boys with mechanical interests are provided with a course in industrial arts which will prepare them for good iobs directly after high school. In the modern home economics rooms, girls receive valuable training in such fields as nu- trition, homemaking, fashion, and design. In well-equipped shops, expert training is given the boys in courses in wood- working, metal work, mechanical drawing, and automotive mechanics. Both of these departments are striving, through the variety of subiects they offer, to give their students the essential knowledge they may need to help them become more proficient in the fields in which they are most in- terested. X 11'-2 Wa Ni Instruction in metal work. age Double, double toil and trouble, Fire, burn, and, caldron bubble.