Somerset Area High School - Eaglet Yearbook (Somerset, PA)

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17641, IENTYIRIE. Nous BIILDRED ROIXIANOSKI SADII-3 R. BIIDDLENTAN, B. S. CLARA SHoEMAKEn INDIANA STATE CARNEGIE INSTITUTE DREXEII INSTITUTE TEACHERS, COLLEGE or TECHNOLOGY The Commercial Department The Commercial Department in Somerset High School offers excellent training for those interested in the business world. In the first year commercial arithmetic and Junior business training are given. The second year offers Typing, Business English and Commercial Geography. Com- mercial Geography takes them to every portion of the world and makes them familiar with the conditions existing there. Shorthand is given the third year. The first year teaches rules and words, and how to apply them, The second year gives practical dictation and considers only speed and accuracy. Second year typing employs neatness and speed. The bookkeeping is given on a general basis as very few business men keep their books the same. The last year gives oflice practice which deals with every sort of business. VVould you like to be a business man or woman? To any one wishing this future Somerset High School offers a complete course of Business training. COME! -..Qi 12 Ea..-

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Oda rg.. EIENTIIRIE Nous 4-viii, 1 U ' 1 i :EI BEss1E C. LONG, A. B. FRANCES E. WOY, A. B. DIARY STOKER, A. B. BERNICE MEYERS SUSQUEHANNA Hoon COLLEGE noon COLLEGE INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY TEACHERS, coI,LEGE RUTH WALKER, A. B. A. W. LLOYD, LITT. B. JUNIATA COLLEGE GROVE CITY COLLEGE The Social Science Department Somerset High School, in keeping with the increased emphasis being placed upon the social studies today offers a complete course in this field, required of all students in all courses. , The course includes geography, American history given both in Junior and Senior High School, world lnstory, economics and a course in current problems. Through these the students may develop an understanding and appreciation of the charac- ter, attainments and traditions of people of all times and places and be prepared to take an intelligent and effective part as citizens in the world of today. Since the highest ideal of our schools is to produce good citizens the social studies seek definitely to prepare for this through projects and problems and the cultivation of a spirit of understanding among all peo- ples and a sense of world-mindedncss. The studies each year are taught by different instructors who have specialized in that field. -..sggf 11

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960, nmineeirslows W. S. LIVENGOOD JR., A. B. JACOB FRYSINGER, B. S. GEORGE BIENSER JUNIATA COLLEGE GETTYSBURG COLLEGE GROVE crrv COLLEGE The Mathematics Department One of the most important courses in our school is mathematics. The mathematics department includes commercial arithmetic, algebra I and algebra II, plane geometry, solid geometry, and trigonometry. In this course we do not need the elaborate materials with which to Work which some courses require, but this does not make the course less interesting. VVith the mysterious x's and y,s, queer figures of all sizes and shapes, and intriguing sines and cosines, we become so engrossed that it is difficult for us to turn our thoughts to other subjects. K VVe have many tools with which we may work, but in this, as in all other subjects there is one which is the most important, in mathematics this tool is the figurehead fin the literal sense of the wordj. Histories make men wise, poets, Witty, but mathematics makes them subtlef' -Gigi 13 tgas-