Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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BIOLOGY. CHEMISTRY. PHYSICS Mr. Wilbert Crocker Miss Irma Hurflf Mr. Albert Hawkim SCIENCE Can you imagine a class using mi parti cular textbook? Wouldn ' t that be Utopia? But don’t get vour hopes too high—there is not just one textbook—there are many. Not only do we use books, but also magazines, encyclopedia?, and personal observation in biology, a study which helps us discover the wonders of nature surrounding us. Chemistry plays such an important fiart in the creation ami utilization of everything around us that our high school course would not lie complete without it. In class we learn such things as what air is, what chemical elements make up our various foods, and that table salt is really NaCL Some of us even select a more difficult science, physics, while still others elect a course in general science or applied science. No matter which we choose, we know that with a knowledge of science we are better prepared to meet the prob¬ lems of the future. Hats off to better living through science! What could this contraption ! «•? Ask anyone in Mr. Crocker ' s Itiysic class, and he can tell you immediately.

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HISTORY. GEOGRAPHY, GOVERNMENT MissTa| cllc I’rudcn Miss Thelma Pruden Miss Gladys Yates SOCIAL STUDIES “Why is a man the individual that he is?” “ I dunno, do you?” This, my children, you will discover, accidentally or otherwise, when you grow” into the social studies classes. In junior high the desire to become good citizens is instilled in us through social studies. We are encouraged to become alive to the things going on about us by being radio, newspaper, and magazine conscious. Then, in our history classes we study man’s beginning, his rises and declines. In order to better understand the state of affairs today, we know that we must study and learn something not only alwiut the present but also about the past. This we do in our history classes. Government teaches us the aims and ideals of citizenship, democracy, and Ameri¬ canism. Geography and general business help us to find our way around in the physical, economic, commercial, and political world of today. So take heed, students, and start your learning. One will never finish Suffolk High and not at least begin to see the answer to Why is man the individual that he is? hi crick ration of Pan-American Week. Miss Yates’ Government classes broadcast a special program over WI.I ' M on April 18 , with memlier of the classes taking part. Ill

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DRIVER TRAINING. HOME EC.. D. O.. SHOP Mr. Jerome Isrow MU Mary Startling Mr. George Koenig SPECIAL CLASSES Those of us who elect any of these special classes not only enjoy them, hut also find them very practical. These classes are Diversified Occupations, Home Economics. Industrial Arts, and Driver Training. Diversified Occupations is of advantage to us. for it helps us decide upon our future occupation and fits us for obtaining and holding a desirable position. We learn the need of studying related information while actually employed on the job and of continuing to study about our occupation. In Home Economics we girls not only learn how to cook and sew. but also how to run a house and to manage the family finances. In Industrial Arts we boys obtain experience in wood work, electricity, sheet metal, forging, foundry, art metal, auto mechanics, and mechanical drawing. We learn the use of hand tools and shop machines. Driver Training is designed to teach us traffic regulations, principles of safety driving, something about the functions of the automobile parts, and, best of all, how to shift gears without making it sound as if the engine is falling apart. ID)