Tenafly High School - Tenakin Yearbook (Tenafly, NJ)

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INDUSTRIAL ARTS Nothing Like a Little Grease EXPERT AT PRECISION Mr. Plante checks a minutely detailed blueprint made by his outstanding Mechanical Drawing Studentf' Ken Meyer. STRIVING FOR ADEPTNESS Students practice typing from a dictation by Mrs. Scott. Pursued by non-college bound THS,ers and any college prep students who have enough time to be well-rounded, the commercial course at Tenafly provides invaluable training in auto- mobile fixing, wood-working, blueprint drawing, typewriter manipulating, shorthand taking, and office functioning. The language of industryf, mechanical draw- ing, stressing the graphic representation of form and proportion, enables students to visualize clearly in space and develops accuracy and man- ual dexterity, using such fascinating pieces of equipment as the T-square, French curve and drawing board. Typing and shorthand, while basic skills in themselves, also train the fingers and the brain, developing close co-ordination between the two. Well versed students having mastered typing and shorthand are able to take at least 60 words per minute for five minutes in shorthand and type over 25 w.p.m. for five minutes on unfamiliar material. Auto Mechanics and Electricity offers boys who are so inclined an excellent chance to get their bombs, in top-notch running condition, as they can drive them right into the school and go to work with grease guns, hydrometers, valve compressors, electric drills, and all the other vital equipment. Similarly, in General Shop, any project, approved by the instructor, may be carried out, including the construction of boats, bookracks, tables, lamps and other projects' requiring adeptness with high powered tools MOTOR MAESTRO It is a challenge to master the intricacies of an automobile engine, says Mr. G. Nylin, instructing Anthony Andujar.

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H. . . ON BRIEF CANDLE . . . As his students examine slides prepared from grasshopper dissections, Mr. Oldford prepares to replace a microscopc lightglobc. gases and even an introduction to atomics com- prise the Physics course. Every unit is accom- panied by tricky chapter tests, questions and problems, work-book exercises and experiments from the over-popular, often misplaced lab man- ual. XVith the new laboratory gradually ac- quiring new equipment, class experiments are becoming more and more important. Controls by the amazing master control panel in the front of the room, each lab table is fully equiped with AC and DC current, besides the elaborate rigging devices so helpful in the illustration of forces and motion. Providing students with a real opportunity to show their scientific skill is Chemistry, in which good lab technique and accuracy are indispensa- ble. Elements, compounds, acids, bases and salts are the basic content of the chemistry course, with bits of atomic structure, chemical analysis and chemical mathematics thrown in to stimu- late intellectual curiosity about more advanced principles. Most of the course is devoted to inorganic chemistry, with a unit included at the end of the year on organic fwhich the student discovers to mean containing carbon, after believing it to mean nlivingv ever since taking biologyj. Manufacturing horrid odors, small explosions and innumerable uncle-anable pieces of glass equipment occupies students on days when labs are in progress and future chemists are striving to figure out just why these awesome reactions take place. DR. FLINT'S FRIEND XVith a chuckle, Dr. Flint shakes IIcnry's skclcton hand DEGREES M. BRUCE OLDFORD B.A,, M.A., Montclair THELMA I. FLINT B.A., Bamard M.A., Ph.D., Columbia

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as well as traditional necessities - sandpaper, glue, etc. Balancing, both budgets and books, keeps the students of Consumer Education and Book- keeping busy. In Consumer Education, little businessmen buy insurance, rent and buy houses, and discover the whyis of prices in general. The students of Bookkeeping frantically struggle with record-keeping, interest and depreciation, trying to keep their records out of the red and figure out why they should be. Practicelmakes perfect is the basis of the Office and Secretarial Practice courses, as future clerks and secretaries drill with calculators, duplicators and adding machines. JUST PUNCH THE KEY . . . Miss Walingavich shows senior E. Limpach how it's done. BUSINESS EDUCATION Our Future Organization Men FOR STENOGRAPHERS ONLY Discussing advanced stenographic proficiency drills with senior Marcia Wertz is helpful instructor, Mr. Hobart DEGREES' PATRICK A. PLANTE B.S., Northeastern University PATRICIA A. SCOTT B.S., Miami C0hioJ University G. KENDALL NYLIN A.E., Wentworth Institute . B.S. Northeastern tram-siw EDWIN C. ROBART B.S. M.C.S. New York University 'IULIET BECHAK B.S., Paterson I. RECKLING B.S., Illinois State University BERNICE K. WALINGAVICI-I B.S., College Misericordia 'ROUND AND 'ROUND THE PAPER GOES BUYER'S GUIDE Mrs. Reckling gives a high level paper demonstration. Consumers ought to know topography, declares Miss Bechak