Wakefield High School - Echo Yearbook (Wakefield, MI)

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Emily Parker. B. S Foods HOME ECONOMICS Fanny E. Rentola, B. S Sewing The Home Economics department offers to the girls a course in Home Living. It is required of girls in Junior High School, and half a year is devoted to it. Election of Home Economics in the High School is optional. The course at present includes two years of work—consisting of units in textiles, garment construction, costume design, meal planning, dietetics, serving, cooking, marketing, home management and house furnishings, as well as laundering. A special one year course is offered to Senior girls. This course consists of intensive units of work in Home Making. COMMERCIAL The Commercial Course of the Senior High School has an enrollment consisting of about one fourth of the students in the school. The course includes work for students in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades. As preparation for advanced Commercial work, the pupils in tenth grade are given Junior Business Training and Commercial Arithmetic. From these two courses they advance to Bookkeeping, Typing I, and Shorthand I in their Junior year and in the Senior year to advanced Typing and Shorthand. This course provides an excellent basis for later Business 1 raining. Estei i e Ki th Shorthand, Typing Fred Trewyn. B. E. Bookkeeping. Jr. Business Typing

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Dkri.ktii. A B Vkra Nichols. A. B. French, English X FOREIGN LANGUAGE One of (he chief purposes in education is to awaken in the vouth an understanding ami appreciation of an individual or a people whose background and view point differ from his own. The development of this tolerance through the study of the language, the history, and the customs of an alien race is one of the most important aims of the foreign language department. To further this end, an ancient and a modern language are taught. At the present time, two vears of French and four of Latin are offered for the student's choice. SCIENCE In biology, living plants and animals are studied. The student is made to realize that this is an interesting world in which we live. There are innumerable things still to Ik discovered about living things. I he scientific method is a good one to live by. Chemistry and physics are decidedly living, growing subjects. Research brings new facts to light, new helpful theories into lK ing. Life is becoming more and more complex. We depend more upon manufactured products today than ever before. There are very few articles in use today which are not directly influenced by scientific research.

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Nadia Thorpe, B. S. Art ART The purpose of art work in the high school is to provide another avenue of expression for the student, to stimulate his imagination, to sponsor a feeling of pride in carefully done work, and to promote satisfaction in creative expression; thus making him more appreciative of the artistic expression of others. Art is always an elective subject. Seventh and eighth grade students take it for a period of ten weeks, while the senior high work lasts a semester. There is also an advanced class which allows the best students in the beginning classes to continue if they wish to. MUSIC The music in the Wakefield High School has a very important part in the curriculum. Of the larger groups, possibly the band is the most outstanding and spectacular. The orchestra has been making great strides this year, and will soon take a place with the band. In the choral work, the Boys’ Glee Club and Girls' Glee Club are combined to form a mixed chorus. Of the smaller groups, which are less spectacular, but just as important, the string quartet, reed ensemble, and brass ensemble have done very commendable work. Cai.i.ienetta Cobb Supervisor oj Music 12 Reino Ami man. B S. Instrumental