Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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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)

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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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LATIN. FRENCH Miss Virginia Brinkley Miss Addic Rose Elicit FOREIGN LANGUAGES “Parle yous fran ais?” We do as much as we can, for that is one of the reasons we like to study French. Or Dicitisne Latinam?” Not so much, for I-atin is a dead language; it came from across the sea ; it killed the early Romans, and now it ' s killing me.” These are the sentiments of some of the Latin students in Suffolk High, most of whom agree that Latin is a very difficult subject. Seriously shaking, however, we think the study of a foreign tanguage has a very important place in the curriculum of a student. So important, in fact, that no other course can really take its place. The training which we get from studying Latin and French is invaluable, esjiecially when it comes to helping with our own English language. A varied course is offered in both Latin and French, including translation, grammar, vocabulary, and word derivation, and a study of the development of civilization of the French and the Romans. Those of us who are planning to attend college will find these subjects most beneficial and should be sure to include some of the four years of I itin or the two of French offered at Suffolk High. Julian Kitchen is evidently trying «» get a little help on his ' ‘dates ' ' from Jean Hell. He’s looking for March 15 on a Roman Calendar, hut all he can find is l.lihus Martiis. Wonder what that can l«e? IHJ