Woodward High School - Boomer Yearbook (Woodward, OK)

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co-operation given by the United States Field Station experts, the wholesale, manufacturing and business firms of Woodward. These contacts with scientific and business experts add vitality to and motivate effectively our school work. The public today is chiefly concerned with the product of our institutions, and the invariable question is, “What can you do?” A visit to our high school will reveal that the girls in the Home Art are skillful in making new dresses, altering old ones, and repair work. In the Home Science the girls acquire skill in cooking and serving, in economy of buying, knowledge in nutritive value of various foods, and in sanitation. In Manual Training the boys become adept in repairing furniture, proficient in construction of new and useful furniture, and acquire workmanship of the most approved type. Woodward High School graduates who elect commercial work are filling some of the best clerical positions in Woodward, while others are making their skill in commercial work pay their way through college. The so called regular college preparatory work—English, Foreign Languages, Mathematics, Sciences. Social Sciences (History, Civics, etc.)—are producing well-trained students who are sustaining a high type of work in our leading colleges and universities. Public speaking is receiving special attention and students in this department are in demand as entertainers at public gatherings and are winning high honors in inter-high school contests. The city of Woodward provides excellent opportunities foi study of music. The Woodward Board of Education is employing a full time music director for the ensuing year, and this special instructor will add much to the efficiency of the chorus, orchestra, and public school music in our public schools. Woodward High School sponsors a number of carefully supervised extra curricular activities. Among these activities are the Boomer staff, student council, class officials and organizations, play casts, debate, 4-H club, orchestra, chorus, football, basketball, track, pep organizations, etc. In these organizations pupils find many opportunities to get practical experience in group work, dealing with real citizenship problems. All sessions of these organizations are conducted under the guidance of the faculty advisors. Membership in these organizations is restricted to those students whose work and attitude are satisfactory to each member of the faculty under whom the student lias work. Each week a faculty session is held to check up on the scholastic work and attitude of each student. Any student whose work or conduct is unsatisfactory is dropped from extra curricular activities and cannot represent the school in athletic or literary events until all delinquencies have been removed to the satisfaction of every faculty member. The wide field of opportunities offered in the various types of school work and the various activities organized, together with the high standards of work sustained, have brought to Woodward High School, each year, an increasing number of non-resident students. Woodward High School is happy to have the honor annually to welcome this fine group of students coming from all parts of Northwestern Oklahoma and to share with these ambitious boys and girls the excellent educational opportunities. To our alumni and patrons it is quite evident that our high school must have enlarged quarters to foster a continuance of our splendid growth. Every nook and corner of our present building is occupied. Our gymnasium and auditorium have been transformed into shop and study halL Our imperative need is a new high school building, and we believe that our alumni and patrons will join in attaining this imperative need—a New High School Building. pmilllllllllllllliumjiiummm ru

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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

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