Sharon High School - Mirror Yearbook (Sharon, PA)

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MISS WRAY MISS GAMBLE The Language Department The language department is one of the treasures carried along on the voyages made hy the fleet of ships known as the Freshmen, the Sophomores, the Juniors, and the Seniors. This treasure consists of three jewels known as three foreign languages. The one of these first discovered is Latin. In pursuit of this jewel the student is taken into the homes of the early Romans and is taught something of the routine of their daily life; he is taken on cleverly planned war campaigns with Caesar; finally he is given an insight into the lives of such famous Romans as Cicero. I'liny, Ovid, Vergil, and Tacitus. French, the jewel to he next unearthed, is considered the diplomatic language of the world. French is a fascinating language affording not only a knowledge of the tongue itself hut also a background of France generally unattainable to the average student from the study of history. Spanish is a precious stone discovered by the Pirates only a comparatively short time ago. It is considered by a great many people to be the simplest, the most romantic, and the most beautiful modern language. (). Y. RANEY Westminster College, M.A. Latin II, III, IV. ANNA M. McBRIDE Westminster College, B.S.; Columbia University, M.A. French I, II. VKRNICE SAEGER Thiel College, A.B.; Cornell Summer Sessions. Latin II. RUTH MOORE Westminster College. A.B.; Graduate work at Westminster College ami at Penn State College. Spanish I. II. DOROTHY W. WRAY Westminster College. A.IL; Graduate work at University of Pittsburgh. Latin I. English II. ELEANOR GAMBLE Westminster College, A.B.; Wisconsin Summer Sessions. Latin I.

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History Department The story of man from his beginning up to the present time is the tale studied by our students during four years in high school. All too short a time is spent upon the fascinating story of the beginning of man’s learning to write his own history and developing a civilization in which he lives amicably with his fellow-men. Then, in order, follow courses of Modern European History, Early American History, and Problems of Democracy Should we tell you all the interesting and important facts it is to be feared we would never finish. The purpose of this article is to acquaint you in as few words as possible with this department. Open your History or Civics book just for this special purpose sometime: see if the last time you studied it over you didn’t skip something. Read it again, and see how many things you failed to notice before! HELEN K. REED Wellesley. A. It. Ancient and Medieval History and Vocational Civics. HARRY GRIMES Allegheny College. B.S.; American History. JANE BROSIE Grove City College. I.itt.B.; American History. TED A. ROSENBERG Grove City College, B.S.; Problems of Democracy. DAVID MINK Bncknell University, B.S.; General History. MARIAN I. CRAIG ('.rove City College, Litt.B.; American History. Commrecial Geography, Economics. Fourteen

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MISS BOYCE MISS WILLIAMSON MR. SEWALL MISS COUSINS MISS LOUTZENHISER Mathematics Department In silent awe we gaze at a bridge, as, phantom-like, it gracefully spans a river. Gradually, respect and admiration for its designer creep into us. admiration for the one who painstakingly designed every detail of this beautiful object. Little do we realize, however, that mathematics was the foundation of it all. Almost every movement in the designer's plans has involved mathematics, usually of the highest type. But the basis of all this difficult mathematics is that which is found in high schools. Such a foundation, Sharon High School offers to every pupil, and this mathematics teaches him to “think straight and get the right answer.” During his first year in Sharon High each Freshman is required to take Algebra I, after that, all mathematics is purely elective. The other mathematics courses offered to students are namely: Algebra I, Plane Geometry. and Business Arithmetic, each for one year; Solid Geometry, Algebra II, Trigonometry, and Algebra III, each of one semester’s duration. With the number of occupations that require mathematics increasing so steadily, such a wide range of that study which Sharon High is able to extend to its pupils can do naught but prepare them to be the best of citizens. ELLA BOYCE Pennsylvania State College. Algebra I. IRENE WILLIAMSON Ohio State University, A.B., M.A.; One Sommer Session. University of Colorado: Two Summer Sessions, University of Southern California; Plane Geometry, Algebra II, Algebra III. Trigonometry. FRANK J. SEWALL Westminster College, Ph.B.; Graduate work. Harvard; Algebra I, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry. BEULAH COUSINS Geneva College, A.B.; One Summer Session, Grove City College: Two Summer Sessions, University of Pittsburgh. Algebra I. W INIF R EH LOUTZEN HI SEP Thiel College, A.B.: One Summer Session. Columbia Teachers College. Algebra I, Plane Geometry.