Fountain Valley High School - Raconteur Yearbook (Fountain Valley, CA)

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Mr. Charles Billings Mr. Ted Blackman Mr. Rodney Brown Showcase Of Talent The Industrial Arts halls were showcases of achievement. Stu- dents who worked daily in their drafting, metal, and printing classes had their accomplishments on display in the glass cases ap- pearing periodically on the hall walls. As you walked down the long corridors, you could hear the banging of heavy machinery, and you could be sure that some- thing useful was in the making. The Graphic Arts classes were responsible for the programs pro- duced for sports and musical events at Fountain Valley High School. Beautiful tables, chairs, and other wooden items were constructed in the wood shops. There was something doing every day in the auto and metal shops and each provided valuable ex- perience for every student. Draft- ing was not a class to take life easy in either. You could see the results of those classes' hard work in the showcases. Many of the plans and models produced by drafting students received awards when submitted in competitions. Creativity and imagination were key words in the Industrial Arts classes this year. Mr. Salvatore DeLuca Mr. Will Grohman Mr. George Hays Mr. Carl Jednoralski Department Chairman Mr. William McGehee Mr. Arthur Delvaux Mr. William McFarland Mr. Elwyn Tingey 257

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. P 512.1 at if Mr. Paul Burke Mr. Greg Cops Mr. Keith Helmick Department Chairman uestion: Euclid Who? Adding machines and slide rules were outH during examinations in the mathematics subjects. The emphasis was on the recall of the theorems, axioms, logarithms, and laws as set down by Euclid and the Master Mathematicians. It took a whole year to learn all that was covered in two hours of that final exam. Students who chose to take math this past year were treated to demonstrations of the newest in calculating com- puters. A taste of data processing was presented to the Algebra II students and many of them indi- cated an interest in that area as a future occupation. It was con- fusing at first, but amazing to note what little trouble the little brain had in answering the mostc diilicult problems. In the Geome- try classes, proofs and geometric figures covered the blackboards. Students in these classes no longer viewed the corner of their room as a plain cornern, but as the intersection of two planes. Math students also experimented in thinking in the fourth dimension. It was hard to do, and at last report, no one had succeeded. Besides the practical mathematics that was taught, students learned other important concepts, the most important of which was the process of logical thinking. Mr. Henry Horton Mr. Howard McVicker a -fs W gs Q Mi 'P Mrs. Jane Sano Mr. Frank Stewart Miss Jane Tadokoro Mr. Dennis Timmer Mr. Gerald Tolman Mr. Scott Weaver 256

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Mr- Edward D0f1'1al'l Mrs. Charlene Dunn Mrs. Jennifer Estabrook .f- Mr. David Feyk Mr. Joe Fitts Miss Vivian Fowler English: Key To English classes have traditionally been known to be among the most boring a high school student has to endure. Not so at Fountain Valley, for the teachers here found a secret that made the classes a little more interesting than most. An especially unique teaching technique was introduced this year in the Senior and Junior English classes. Three teachers, Mr. Dornan, Mrs. Kelly, and Mrs. Wells, developed a system of team-teaching which appealed to most of the students in their classes. Every three weeks classes and teach- ers changed and students had an opportunity to pick from subjects which interested them most. Among the subjects taught by these teachers were courses in Logic, the Term Paper, Literature, Shakespeare, and the other required as well as non-requisite courses. N :. ef-ff - . elf 'tt ' ' ' 258 Miss Christina Guin Mrs. Sharon Holland 25. -f..- ,gl Mrs. Jane Ice Mrs. Patricia Kelly Mrs. Bette Lochner MiSS Doris LODSIIIC9-d