Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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 OPPORTUNITIES OFFERED—PRESENT AND FUTURE The enrollment in Woodward High School has grown, in a few years, from 50 to nearly 350, and the number graduating has increased from a half dozen to fifty or more each year. This growth has been due to the high scholastic standards sustained and the excellent opportunities offered for practical training in well-equipped shops, laboratories and library. The three primary essentials in making any school a success are (1) loyai community support, (2) a faculty of specially trained teachers and, (3) first-class equipments. In each of these requirements Woodward High School ranks superior. Woodward High School is a member of the North Central Association and ranks favorably with the best high schools of the North Central States. This membership admits our high school graduates to the leading colleges and universities without an entrance examination. Our high school is approved by the North Central Association and our State Department of Education for 37 units. Eight of these units—three of English, two of Mathematics, one of Science, one of United States History, and one-half unit each of Civics and Physiology—are required. The remaining eight of the sixteen units for graduation may be elected, under the guidance of faculty advisors, from courses in Home Art, Home Science, Commercial, Manual Training, English, Sciences, Foreign languages, Social Sciences, etc., as may best suit the needs and talents of the student. The student may complete the sixteen units for graduation in three, four or five years as may best serve his convenience. Part-time students also here find an opportunity and encouragement to complete a high school education. Woodward High School is a strong believer in the elective system and that the high school should provide a broad field of opportunities in which the student may find, under guidance, the field of activity in which he may develop to the best advantage: In other words, an efficient educational opportunity for every child in the community is the slogan of Woodward High School. Woodward High School is also an exponent of the idea that pupils “learn to do by doing” and in furtherance of this idea Woodward High School has probably the best-equipped Home Art, Home Science, Manual Training and Commercial departments in Western Oklahoma. In the Home Art work sewing is required of the girls in seventh grade, and in the Home Science department cooking is required of the eighth grade girls. In addition to this required work two years each of sewing and cooking are elective in' high school. Hence six years of practical work in home economics are provided, and two full time teachers are employed in these departments and, further, each of these instructors is a college graduate with special graduate training. Manual training is required of the seventh and eighth grade boys and in addition three years of elective manual training are provided in the high school. Hence a boy may secure five years of this work in Woodward schools. A full time instructor is employed in manual training work. In the Commercial department all subjects are elective. In this department bookkeeping, typewriting, shorthand, commercial law. commercial geography and business arithmetic are offered, and a full time instructor is in charge. In addition to a high school library of 1,500 volumes, our students have access to the city library of 8,000 volumes and the assistance of the excellent city librarian in directing the work of the students. The science and other classes appreciate the cmmniHnaniCIinil] in LililULilililliM IVIIIt mm mu