Upper Darby High School - Oak Yearbook (Upper Darby, PA)

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What do teachers do when they are not teaching? Weil, chemistry teachers are kept quite busy preparing materials for experiments, and doing a little experimenting of their own. Mr. Stevens, head of the Science department, weighs some chemicals much as he might wish his students to do. Miss Leaman looks as if she might be trying to worry a three no-trump bid out of a two- diamond hand, and her compatriot, Mrs. Messick, might be noting down the score. As a matter of fact, both are busy keeping the li- brary records straight—a never-ending job— they will assure you.

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for stu»i: ts! yahifi» akilitiks In the General Course the girls are bound to find themselves cast in the role of home-makers. Sewing and cooking are required subjects. Not all the savory odors detected about the building come from the cafeteria. Some emanate from cooking class. The boys in the General Course take life and limb in hand whilst they work in the machine shop. This young man looks quite efficient and collected as he operates the drill press. Many students choose the Com- mercial Course with its varied cur- ricula. Some take stenography and typing; others, retail selling; still others, a general business course. The becoming young lady in this picture is taking dictation. Twenty-one

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TEH FACULTY WHO HAVE THE Some people believe that dress making is a lost art. If that is so, it is true in spite of the training that our girls get in their Home Economics classes. Here Miss Foster is in- structing the girls in the cutting out and sew- of material. We hope this knowledge will help you to balance the household budget in later Many a girl has spent a sleepless night try- ing to figure the proper way to get over that horse in gym without endangering life and property. That menacing little book that Miss Jackson has will record high success or dis- mal failure for the lassie about whom Miss