Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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Commercial Department Seven years ago a new department was organized in Sharon High School -The Commercial Department. During this time it has become a very practical and worthwhile organization. Its main purpose is to train our boys and girls to enter the business world. Many alumni who missed the opportunity of studying some of the commercial subjects are returning and taking the Post-Graduate Course. Each, year the number of commercial students is increasing. Before school started in the fall of 1931, the partition between the typing room and the office was removed. More typewriters were added and this year it is possible tor forty students to type in the same period. First year shorthand gives the principles and basis for,the work of the second year. The second year work consists of dictation, transcription, and research work. The work of the first year students in typewriting consists of drills, sentences, and speed and accuracy tests. The second year is more complicated, taking up budgets, legal material, tabulation, and accuracy tests. Business arithmetic is taught during the second year and proves a benefit to those in bookkeeping. The first year of bookkeeping teaches the principles and how to keep books for a small partnership, or firm. The second year work deals with the handling of a corporation’s books. One-half of the year is devoted to commercial law and the principles involved. The second half of the year is devoted to salesmanship. V. !.. BRANDON State Teachers College. Wisconsin; University of Illinois. Typewriting ami Commercial Law. FREDA KERNIS Indiana State Teachers College. Typewriting and Stenography. RUTH FILER Grove City College. Bookkeeping. MARC. A RET HANRAHAN Indiana State Teachers College. Stenography and Bookkeeping. FRANCES HAVES Grove City College. Business Arithmetic. MARY SPECHT JONES Grove City College. Typewriting.

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The Mirror of 1931 MISS STEWART MR. ROSENBERG MR. GRIMES History Department Tlu savage cave-man the cultured king of Egypt- the citizen of Rome the students • I (• reeee the savage barbarian of W estern Europe the crowned monarch of Europe— the freedom-loving colonist—the adventuresome explorer—the present day statesman and diplomat. These and many other equally interesting and romantic figures come trooping from the pages of our history books. Thus a history in the hands of a good student heroines the most romantic story ever told. The value and pleasure of history may be further increased by a well-planned and well-supervised course of study. The student in Sharon High School has a great advantage. His course is arranged with respect to the chronological order and to the complexity of history. The more recent and therefore more complex history is left for the older students. The freshmen, through a semester of vocational civics, is enabled to choose a vocation and shape his high school career to that end. A semester of ancient and medieval history gives a background for further study. The second-year history student traces, in modern European history the growth of the European republics from despotic kingdoms. The junior traces the growth of his own nation from a few scattered colonics. And finally, in problems of democracy, the senior is enabled to learn the fundamentals of good citizenship. (.RKTCHICN STEWART Grove City College, A.B.; Columbia Uni vrruity, M.A. Modern European History. HELEN REED Wellesley, B.A. Ancient and Medieval History and Vocational Civics. HARRY GRIMES Allegheny College, B.S. American History. STANLEY CURRIER Grove City Collette, B.S. Ancient and Medieval History, Vocational Civics, Commercial Law and Salesmanship. Lit.B. American His- JANE BROSIE Grove City College, tory. TED A. ROSENBERG Grove City College, B.S. Problems of Democracy. DAVID MINK Huckncll University, B.S. General History. I

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 Mathematics Department It is again June and another class is graduating from Sharon High School. Two hundred and eight students may he seen sitting on the platform awaiting their final oral examination. The representatives of the various branches of learning enter the auditorium and prepare at once to interrogate those seated upon the stage. Miss McBride of the French Department, conies forward and asks. What do you consider the most important subject taught in our high school?” Instantly two hundred and eight little voices may he heard to reply, “Mathematics.” Completely overcome by amazement. Miss McBride retires to a remote corner of the room in order to regain composure. Then Miss Rowena Mac Bride takes the stand. “As the representative of the English teachers, I wish you to repeat that fundamental upon which all English is dependent, the alphabet. “A-B-C-X-Y-Z,” is the immediate response, and another of our worthy pedagogues leaves in astonishment. Miss Stewart, a member of the History Department, rises and states the following, “Name a German, who is one of the greatest figures in all history.” Of course, she means Bismarck, so can you blame her for fainting when she hears our own salutatorian jump up and shout, “Einstein?” Being unable to stand the strain any longer, Mr. Jones, our principal, rushes upon the stage and addresses the seniors, saying, that if they desire to thoroughly convince him that they are worthy of receiving their diplomas, they must pass with high honors the spelling test which he is about to give them. They consent, and Mr. Jones, taking out his small dictionary, pronounces as the first word, “sign.” “S-i-n-c, sine,” the seniors spell ensemble. But what lias happened? Mr. Jones, together with the three or four remaining representatives, is being carried from the room! Could they have answerd incorrectly? No for there sits Miss Williamson, Miss Boyce, Miss Cousins, M iss Holden, and Mr. Sewell, and on their faces are broad smiles of satisfaction. Arc they passing? “Most certainly,” is the cry of these five. F. J. SEWAI.i, Westminster College, Ph.B. Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry. BEl'LAH COUSINS IRENE WILLIAMSON Ohio State University A.B., M.A. Plane Geometry, Algebra II, Algebra III, Trigonometry. ELLA BOYCE State College. Algebra I. Geneva College, A.B. Algebra I. JANE HOLDEN Thiel College, A.B. Algebra I, Plane Geometry, General Science. Sixteen