Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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The Special Departments Some of the most cultural and some of the most useful courses of our school are listed under Special Departments. 1 he Music Department helps members of the hand, orchestras and chorus to make good use of their leisure hours and to acquire membership in other organizations. The i est of our school, as listeners, have gained a fuller appreciation of music through the efforts of this department. The Art Department includes Free-Hand Drawing and Mechanical Drawing. “To open up the road to beauty and understanding of one great phase of life, to encourage joy in creation, that is the function of art. I he former course develops a keener appreciation in everyday things. The latter develops imagination and habits of careful observation. For students who use Mechanical Drawing commercially, this department cooperates with the Westinghouse Company. Students may work in this plant during summers, and those not wishing to go to college may take engineering training there. 1 lie Library contains magazines and books for school reference, outside reading requirements. and pleasure reading. The Librarian, besides her regular work, gives talks to Freshmen on the use of the library, preparing them for work in any library. 1 he Household Arts Department, including Cooking and Sewing, aims to prepare girls for home work in both subjects. Both are two-year required courses, but the teachers hope to have them extended through the high school curriculum as elective courses. The school nurse in the Health Department gives first aid. assists in medical inspection, calls upon sick children, and has many other incidental duties. Her work is invaluable. The aim of the Manual Training Department is not to teach the student to make furniture as much as to teach him accuracy in all things, the use and care of tools, machinery, and wood, and especially the use of his own hands. I he I h sical I raining Department helps the student develop a vigorous, healthy body and mind, ready to do his task at school and at home. Since lack of time forbids individual attention, much time is spent on games to teach the pupil self-sacrifice, courage, fair play, persistence, and self-protection. David Rees.................... Eunice Rees .................. Elma Stansfield .............. Elizabeth Sykes ............... Norman Morrell—Carnegie Tech Grace McClenahan .............. Grace Eccles ............. Helen Mathay .................. Flora Mathay ................. Howard Gilmore ............ Agnes Flinn .................. R. B. McCandless............... Mildred Devore ............... Glamorgan School of Music,Wales—Music .........................New York University—Music ............................... Slippery Rock—Music .......................Allegheny College, A. B — Art College of Engineering. B. S.. Mechanical Drawing ......................................... Librarian Rochester Mechanics Institute—Cooking Battle Creek College—Sewing Harriet Hospital Training School. R.N.—School Nurse Genesco State Normal—Manual Training Sargent University—Physical Training Nebraska Wesleyan. A.B.—Physical Training Indiana State Normal—Physical Training Seventeen

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Mathematics Department The vast and far-reaching importance of mathematics in the modern world is a theme which is given very little consideration by the average person. A little serious thought upon the matter will bring to us, perhaps, a conception of the wheel of progress turning upon the axle of mathematics. Upon what depends the accuracy of the engineers—the builders of bridges, roads, locomotives, ocean liners and skyscrapers? Upon what the work of the mechanics who make all our electrical appliances? Upon what does the navigator in mid-ocean rely? What subject means most to the millions of business men in the world? The observations of the astronomers, the discoveries of the inventor, have what as their basis? Science, without mathematics, would be as helpless as a man without a head. It seems, indeed, that mathematics furnishes a foundation for the operations of the men who have, perhaps, most of the actual pushing to do in turning the wheel of progress. Many people look upon math as a sort of mental gymnastics used merely to teach students to think through problems in life accurately. For the training of mental accuracy there is nothing so useful as a study of mathematics. This is perhaps the chief reason why all colleges require several’ years of math for entrance, regardless of the course one may wish to take. But this is not the paramount object in studying mathematics. If statistics can prophesy, they tell us that there will be more of the Sharon High School students of today using math as a practical basis for their work tomorrow than there will be using as a basis any other study of our school. The mathematics department has run along in Sharon High this year much as it has in past years. The math classes have had no special activities of note during the year and have worked close to the book, as it seems is necessary in the study of this subject. It is to the credit of the Matli Department, we believe, to say that it has taken no part in the attempt to “club” the school to death this year. It is about the only department in the school which has not had a club. During the past year in our high school there have been about eight hundred and fifty students studying math. Twenty-eight classes have met every day. About three hundred and twenty pupils have been studying Arithmetic; two hundred and sixty Algebra 1: one hundred and seventy Plane Geometry; eighty, Solid Geometry and Algebra II; and about fifteen. Trigonometry and Algebra III. Irene Williamson ................... .....Ohio State University, A.B., David I.. Mink...................... I. J. Laws.......................... Beulah Cousins...................... Ella Boyce ......................... Clara M. Purcell ................... Birdie J. Osborne .................. Margaret Hyde ...................... M.A., Geometry, Algebra II and III. Trigonometry Bucknell University, B. S.—Geometry Carthage College, A. B.—Geometry, Algebra II ..................Geneva College, A. B.—Algebra .......................State College—Algebra I ............University of Pittsburgh—Arithmetic ..................Grove City College—Arithmetic .......................Thiel College—Arithmetic Nineteen