Sauquoit Valley Central High School - Saghdaquadah Yearbook (Sauquoit, NY)

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., f.v.C 4 Industrial rts and Defense AT THIS CRITICAL PERIOD in the history of our country, Industrial Arts are especially important. With the ever increasing shortage of help in indus- try, more and more of our boys and girls are finding opportunities to step into trades at the close of their school days. Industrial Arts courses are not organized to prepare students for specific trades but serve their pur- pose by showing what the different trades are like with regard to materials used, types of work done, requirements for entrance, financial returns and chances of advancement. The preparation for the trades is left to vocation courses. During the past year, Industrial Arts departments throughout the country were asked to participate in the movement to prepare for war. Scale model airplanes, 500,000 of them, were urgently needed by the Army and Navy for the training of military and civilian pilots, airplane spotters, and many others who are concerned with the recognition and range estimation of our planes and those of the Axis nations. Our school received a set of 50 planes which our students have been building for the past two months. Included in the set are bomber, fighter and observation planes of the United States, England, Russia, Germany, Italy and Japan. These models are solid models and must be made to exact scale. This requires the ability to read drawings, a knowledge of materials as well as the use of tools. Many of our students are qualifying for the Certificates of Award which are given by the U. S. Navy, Bureau of Aero- nautics, for the completion of one or more models which pass the final inspection. Until this year, Industrial Arts courses were offered as electives only, but with the addition of another course this year, the State Education Department granted its approval for both major and minor sequences in the field of Industrial Arts. This should mean a much larger enrollment in these courses in the future. Glee Club THE GLEE CLUB, under the direction of Mrs. Reilly, meets on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, the eighth period. During the past year this organ- ization has given many entertainments for the public. It has presented numbers at Christmas time and plans to do some more for graduation in June. Three singers from this school have represented the Glee Club in Ilion: Betty Tuttle, Joyce Perkins, and Helen Bawol. On the whole, this club has had a successful term and looks forward to having many new members next year. Library Club THE LIBRARY CLUB holds its meetings every Monday in the library. The club is made up of fifteen members and their advisor, Mrs. Jenks. The following officers were elected: President, Esther Terns, Vice-President, Rosemarie Blackstone, and Secretary, Winifred Ebert. The activities of the club are rather limited, but the club has had sev- eral parties this year and most of the members find that the club is really worthwhile. PAGE TWENTY THREE

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PAGE TWENTY-TWO r, .y.C are as Social Studies ROBINSON says, nTo know nothing of the past is to understand little of the present and to have no conception of the future. This statement gives a very definite purpose of social studies. The educational system of New York State with the cooperation of the teachers is working out a program of social studies from the seventh through the twelfth grade. At the present time the Sauquoit Valley Central School has introduced this course through the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth grades. The demands upon the youth of today are so many and so definite that the training of youth becomes more and more important. The youth of today must be able to live a satisfying, economic life, to assume a definite place in our economic organization. He must live a rich life, alert to the opportunities for growth through contacts with society. He must live a democratic life and know that it is the best way of life. lle must live a life in harmony with the natural environment and be concerned with the control of factors to the advantage to himself and others. Last but not least. he must live a life of social participation in the group and community life desirous of contributing as much as he can to better living for society. Social studies combines geography and history and presents the subject matter in such a way that the pupil has access to numerous sources of material. It allows discussion and formulating of opinion. It develops abilities in the pupil along the lines in which he is interested. It teaches the pupil to see practical uses of his knowledge by applying it to his own community and to his chosen vocation. ln the final analysis the purpose of social studies is enducation and all writers on education say that the real function of secondary education is, uTo make the child conscious of his obligations to society, to give him tools to do his share and the attitudes necessary for this service. Alumni Notes THE ALUMNI Assoc1AT1oN, under the leadership of Stanley Bawol, has been busy with its activities this year. The basketball game and dance during the Christmas holidays brought together many of the Alumni. The mystery play 6'The Skull was given by a cast of the Alumni and seemed to give the audience a few thrills. The scholarship will be given in June to a member of the Senior Class who is planning to continue his or her education. The Association feels very proud of the great number of its members serving in some branch of the service and to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stephen- son we pay our tribute for the sacrifice they made in the loss of their son, Hugh. the first of our Alumni to pay the supreme cost.

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- e -f f 4-e---as -s at ur Trip t HALL ABOARD THE 2:37 MONDAY MORNINGXV This was the call that twenty-one seniors and Mrs. Prichard and Mr. Trask answered. One would think that the trip down to New York might be a good time to snooze a bit. Quite the contrary, everyone seemed wide awake. We arrived in New York at seven-thirty and immediately went to Hotel Chesterfield and got ourselves established. The first important job was breakfast and everyone seemed to have a good appetite. At eleven o'clock, we went to Music Hall in Radio City to see Reap the Wild Windi' and the stage show. This is the largest theater in the world with a seating capacity of six thou- sand two hundred. The ceiling of the theater is a great dome and the lighting effects are very beautiful. The picture and stage performance were both very good and the enti1'e group seemed to enjoy them. Monday evening at seven o'clock, we took the guided tour of Rockefeller Center. This, the huge mid-city development which com- prises twelve acres of land, is the greatest building ever undertaken under a single own- ership. This project is built on land bought from Columbia University, and in time the whole project will be reverted to the Univer- sity. On this tour we saw eleven different build- ings: The British Empire Building, La Maison Francaise, the Palazzo d'Italia, the Interna- tional Building and a twenty-seven story office building. On the west side of Rockefeller Cen- ter is Radio City which comprises the R. C. A. Building, seventy stories high, on top of which is the observatory. From this observatory, we had an excellent view of New York City at night. This was a very beautiful sight. The other buildings in Radio City are the R. K. 0. PAGE TWENTY-FOUR ew York Building and the Radio City Music Hall and Center Theater. The R. C. A. Building contains seventy sto- ries and rises eight hundred and fifty feet in the air. Within its walls are offices, broadcast- ing studios, roof gardens, restaurants, theaters and shops. On the eleventh floor of the R. C. A. Building are the gardens of the Nations, thir- teen in all. These have smooth lawns, shrubs, and flowers. In front of the main entrance to the R. C. A. Building, we saw the sunken plaza eighteen feet below street level. This plaza contains fountains and gardens where dancing is en- joyed in summer and skating in the winter. The R. C. A. Building also contains the fa- mous Rainbow Room and Rainbow Grill. This is so named from the color of the organ set in a white dome over a revolving dance floor. lt has crystal chandeliers, jade green chairs and flashing mirrors. The New York Museum of Science and ln- dustries called the '4Hall of Motion is on the ground floor of the R. C. A. Building. Une IIIUSI see this Radio City to really appreciate the wonder of it. After visiting Rockefeller Center, we next went to see Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra and Bob Hope in HI Married a Blonde , at the Paramount Theater. When this show was over it was midnight, so after a bite to eat we returned to the hotel for much-needed rest. Tuesday morning we took the guided tour of upper and lower Manhattan Island. This covered the entire island giving us a sight of the slum sections, and business, and fine resi- dential sections. New York City consists of five boroughs: Manhattan, The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Richmond. Manhattan has twen- ty-two square miles and a population of one million, nine hundred and eighty thousand.