Standish High School - Crimson Rambler Yearbook (Standish, ME)

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Why don't we have a fire drill? It certainly is necessary. I suppose one reason is because of the lack of time. 'But, we are able to take time out for such things as magazine campaigns, movies, and prac- ticing cheers. And isn't it just as important to learn what to do in case of fire? Wouldn't it be time well spent if it prevented the loss of lives? Visualize a fire in the school building at present. The students are all excited and are making a rush for the door and the stairs. Some are getting knocked down and trampled on. In this confusion it would take twice as long for everyone to get out. Now, on the other hand, imagine a fire in the school building after there had been numerous fire drills. The students would be more calm, each person knowing exactly what to do. They would take their time and file out of the burning building to safety. We are fortunate, however, in having the school building and the busses equipped with new fire-extinguishers. We are-grateful for these but we are also wondering how many of the students know how to use them. i' 1' Evelyn Mayberry, '40 I ,Ili ll pn- 11 Q-UR qgpasrs or srupg Standish High School offers to its students a choice of four coursesg college preparatory, English, commercial and general. The purpose of the college preparatory course is, as its name states, to adequately prepare those who plan to go on to some higher ' institution of learning, its requirements being four years of English, four years of Latin, three of French, two of mathematics and three of ' general science, physics, chemistry, or biology, while American History, Geography, World History, American Government, Civics, and Occupations are grouped under the heading of social sciences. . The English course, similar to the college quires the same subjects, with the exception of college preparatory course, four years of Latin requirement is only two years, leaving one free sciences. preparatory course, re- Latin. Whereas in the is required, the English to study one of the The commercial course prepares students who wish to make their way in the business world, preparing them to be stenographers, secretaries, clerks, bookkeepers, or to hold similar positions of a clerical nature. In this course one may become proficient in arithmetic, bookkeeping, law, economics, shorthand, and typing, and also have an opportunity to study three sciences. The general course, designed for those nature of their future occupation, allows a order that they may be prepared to meet any equal ease. Next year we hope to be able to add to who have not decided the wide range of subjects in type of occupation with our present program, home economics, which I am sure will prove immensely popular as well as educational. , u A 'M

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THE Seca-aQEaaaU1LQ1Na v The Science Buildlngmwhlcn was added'to the Standish High School last year is used by the Physics Class two days a week while the Biology Class has it's use three days a week. The Physics Class is provided with all kinds of mechanical gadgets and weights covering one lab table and the Biology Class has pails of preserved specimens, dissecting sets, textbooks, and flowers are on the other lab table. This year the school bought thirty-two commercial chairs for the lab so classes and quizzes can be given when there are no experiments to do. The Biology Class' day in the lab is as good as a circus. They have had to dissect worms, starfishes crayfishes, mussels, frogs, hydra and sponges. They each had to take a specimen and draw it. The girls would come to the pail of preserves and daintily try to pick out a nice limber worm while they squirmed and shrieked and finally they have to call some great big boy to get it for them. They are getting an ant colony started and while one of the fair- er sex was drawing she noticed that about five ants had escaped. It seems that she doesn't mind snakes and worms but ants and spiders make her fairly shudder. She called to her frrend while she stood shivering to see five harmless little ants running about. nYeo-Hoo, call out the army! The ants are outln Miss Murray came to the rescue and put the ants back while half of the class was doubled up with laughter. As I said once before, they have to draw specimens and pictures from their text UProb1ems in Biology.H These drawings are both good and funny. The funniest I ever saw were the sketches of the human skeleton. In some the legs would be uneven and one would think that the skeleton had just had infantile paralysis. Others would be one- sided and still others, plainly speaking, would be a mess. Mine was a victim of the latter diagnosis. Some were very good. This year the Biology Class should be learning more than any class, for we have a good teacher in Miss Murray and a brand new modern laboratory. ' Marlon Gould '41 ' ' , : aff' ' Y ,, ,-, Hey Santa Claus! Hey Santa Claus, Be good to me, And place a Buick 'Neath my tree, And fill my stocking To the knee With jewels and a coat of fur. A pair of skis, Some binders too, A skating skirt Q Of red and blue, Then, if 1t's not Too much to do, Please give me Robert Taylor. Miriam Dolloff '41