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

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NUMBERS DEPARTMENT oF MAT HEMATICS One at a time, please, Mr. Grim, this geometry has too many angles tor me. 7' ,mu in s I Q U f ' 1 N E93 cl' One ol Bucky Walters' specialty tests starts those brains clicking. 60

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PL ETF ATI qono ...Hy T. H. GRIM Head ol Math. Department Solid Geometry Plane Geometry Algebra Arithmetic Many of you have taken one, two or three steps up this stairway. Some have ascended all tive to the top. In many ways these courses in mathematics will help you to more complete living through better understanding and eventual control over social and economic forces, and the solution of problems of your physical environment. Mathematics is related to your experiences. You will continue to deal with problems of budget, credit plans, installment buying, and selling. Your minds have been developed to analyze and interpret situations: to compute, compare and deduct facts. Mathematics pro- vide an outlook and a means of understanding. There are important aspects of the world that only mathematics can interpret to the citizen. The Mathematics Department congratulates each of you upon your success and graduation from our William Penn Senior High School. FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT' Roger Shearer, Evelyn E. Anstadt, T. H. Grim, Edward L. Walters, Florence C Mentz. SECOND HOW, LEFT TO RIGHT: George F. Hedrick, Donald W Cockley, Paul Klinedmst, Haymond H Ensminqvr,

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EXPLUH TIU UP P ETS FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mrs, Graybill, Mr. Trattner, Mrs. Smith, Miss Altland. STANDING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. Byers, Miss Eisenhower, Mrs. Thompson, Mrs. Loucks, Miss Enqlar, Mr, Kauffman. History, formally was defined as a narrative of past experiences of the human race. This department no longer confines its teaching to the limitations of this definition. The broadened scope of teaching is now called the field of 1 5 K' , -- . MRS. HELEN Y. SMITH Head of History Department social science and the scope of study and in- struction now reaches into the field of social, political and economic problems, thus enrich- ing the minds of our students, making them more appreciative of their heritage, also con- scious of the debt we owe to the past. The teaching of this department aims to stress the ideals of democratic living. Thus success- fully combating the ideology of dictatorship types of government. Included in our courses of study for the three years in senior high school are world events together with related contemporary legislation thus combining the ideals of America, which assumedly will make every student proud to be an American. The Social Studies Department of the Senior High covers its required courses of study which include: 10th year, World History: llth year, American History: 12th year, Problems of Democracy: also aiming to make these pre- scribed courses practical by the wide use in the classrooms of supplemental material such as current magazines, newspapers, editorials. and reports are of which tend to discourage the student to do outside reading. The courses of study are required in this department and not elective.