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

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Robert F. Patterson, George Caron, Frederick C. Wales, Ardis V. Chapman, Neta Sue Melton. PRACTICAL ARTS Because a knowledge of practical arts is essential to all young men and women who are planning to enter either homemaking or industry, Reading Memorial High School supplies interested students with many courses in these fields. Available to girls is a variety of subjects dealing with home economics. The clothing course includes a study of fabrics, dressmaking, and fashion design while the girls in cooking classes gain experience in planning nutritious menus and preparing food. Household management, another interesting and informative subject, emphasizes child care and family relations. In the well-equipped shops, boys receive valuable training in various fields of industry, such as mechanical drawing, printing, woodwork¬ ing, metal work, and automotive mechanics. The students taking these courses are given an excellent opportunity to develop practical skills through individual experience. Dan McMullen and William Mason are busy sawing wood. Gayle Young, Nancyjane Fellows, Judi DiCesare, Leslie Jollymore, and Donna Ward tend to their knitting as future mothers. 17

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James L. Roth, Geraldine F. Roy, Ernestine H. Macdonald. FINE ARTS The music, art, and literature programs at Reading Memorial High School provide interest and enjoyment for many students. Besides possessing a wide range of reference materials and periodicals to help pupils on research projects, the school library is well supplied with magazines and books to suit any taste. In the art room students are able to create new and interesting effects through a variety of media on hand. Under careful instruction they develop a useful application of their artistic abilities. Pupils who are musically tal¬ ented have an opportunity to join the glee club, band, orchestra, or chorus, a simplified form of the glee club. Classes in music apprecia¬ tion and theory are also available to instruct students in the technical aspects of the subject . Through varied programs of study, the Fine Arts Department has contributed greatly toward supplying a cultural background for all members of the student body. Carol Kidder fixes the little man. Junior artists are busy at work. gj m 1 7 A 16

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Seated: Walter E. Hawkes, Virginia Bartlett, Philip W. Althoff. Stand¬ ing: John A. Hollingsworth PHYSICAL EDUCATION Once again the Physical Education Department at Reading Memorial High School emphasized good health and character development through a varied pro¬ gram of athletics. An additional aim this year was to increase the physical fitness of each individual student who attended the regularly scheduled gym classes. The results were measured by means of tests, administered in the fall and spring, to determine the strength of a pupil as compared to the average strength for his height and weight according to nationwide studies. Under the di¬ rection of able teachers, students took part in many acti¬ vities ranging from football, track, cross-country, hock¬ ey, basketball, baseball, tennis, and golf for the boys, to square dancing, field hockey, basketball, and softball for the girls. The good sportsmanship and team co¬ operation acquired by participating in these sports will help equip any student to set out on the expeditions of life. Basketballs fly as the girls practice forward passes. 18