William Penn High School - Tatler Yearbook (York, PA)

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DEPARTMENT Man, That's Solid! It may be Plane, but it's pretty deep. O Come Now, Potts, You're Fakin'. 27

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MATHEMATICS First Row,'Leit to Right: Mr. l-Iedrick, Mr. Cockley, Mrs. Wampler, substitute, Mr. Walters. Second Row, Left to Rights Mr. H. Grim, Mrs. Ness, substitute, Mrs. Brubaker, substitute, Third Row, Left to R1ght:.Mr, Bailey, Miss Bortner, Mr. J. Kimber Grimm. Regular Teachers Absent: Mr. Ensminger, Mr. P. Klmedmst, Miss Anstadt. T. H. GRIM Head of Department FEW PEOPLE realize the importance of mathematics in our modern life. It is not merely an abstract science, as it appears to so many people, but it has a very important bearing upon all sciences. It is mathematics that tells the engineer whether his bridge will endure the strains brought to bear on it or whether a power line will withstand heavy wind and snow storms. The students in the Class of ,45 are now prepared to enter any of the great number of fields of mathematics open to them. They will help greatly in increasing the progress which mathe- matics has made in all the sciences.

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MRS. HELEN Y. SMITH Head of Department HISTURY THIS DEPARTMENT is no longer confined to the narrative of past experiences of the human race. It has broadened its scope of study and instruction so that it reaches into the field of social, economic and political problems, thus inculcating into the minds of students the democratic principles of life which successfully com- bat the idealogy of the dictatorship types of government. The study of current world events together with contemporary legislation combining the ideals of Amer- icanism are included in the courses of each of the years in the Wm. Penn Sr. High School and a study in this field is bound to make every student proud to be an American. This department aims to make its courses practical instead of theoretical by the wide use in classes of current mag- azines, newspapers, editorials all of which tend to encourage the student to do out- side reading instead of use of text books alone. In the 10th year students are given a course in World Historyg 1 1th year, American History, 12th year, Problems of Democracy. Seated, Left to Right: Miss Englar, Miss Mentz, Mrs. Seaks, Miss Altland. Standing, Left to Right: Mrs. Smith, Miss Curran, Mrs. Loucks, Mr. Trattner. 28