Albuquerque High School - La Reata Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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Rnlla Brmk Manan Douglas BS 0fEd BS MS HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT The purpose of home economlcs 1n the pub11c schools IS to teach glrls how to care properly for the1r homes and chlldren ln the future Under home economlcs there are such classes as Cloth1ng Foods Home and Ch1ld Care and Personal Problems The g1rls who take Home and Chlld Care learn how to remodel and redecorate their homes and care for chlldren Sewmg teaches the glrls fashlon as well as deslgnmg and makmg 1n the1r Cloth1ng class In the Foods class the glrls are taught to cook and pre- pare well balanced meals and 1n the Per sonal Problems class they dlscuss the many dlfflcultles of marrlage and home l1fe :w Is lt done yet? Mrs Br1nk asks 'ls she care- fully watches these young chefs B.S. M.A. Esther Larson Estelle McDevitt 13

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Clara Barnhart Madge Chlldre B S M A B A M A MISS Johnson IS shown polntlng out the of a clrcle to her sixth perlod class degrees MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT The mathemat1cs department 1S dlV1d6d 1nto SIX separate courses Geometry both plam and sol1d Tngonometry Algebra I and II and Buslness and Practlcal Math Although only one year of math 1S re qu1red to graduate most of the students b3SlS of many other subjects and IS requlred 1n the fields of sc1ence mechanlcs and aero nautlcs 12 W1ll1am Davles Moneta Johnson B S M A B A M A take advantage of your. courses.. It is -the

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Robert Ivey B A M S W B Maxon BA M of Ed Joseph Burger Sarah Cook AB MS BS MA DofEd SCIENCE DEPARTMENT The sclence department headed by Mr Maxon cons1sts ot B1ology Chemlstry and Physlcs Each of these subjects 1S .1 field ot xts own Bl010gy IS the study of llfe 1n general Students learn how to dxsect var1ous types of plant and an1mal hfe Chemlstry IS the study of the elements and thelr react1ons wlth each other Work 1n the laboratory helps students to deter m1ne the character1st1cs and preparat1ons of the elements The laws of nature are studled 1n Phy slcs The reasons for the laws as well as the laws themselves challenge many stu dents to probe deeper 1nto the field of SCICHCS Durmg the year the clubs that have sprung from the sclence classes demon strate varlous laws 1n assembhes These assemblves have encouraged many Sopho mores and Jumors to take as much scxence as p0SSlbl9 Carmen Seese Mlldred Rohwer In th1s Bl010gy class Mxss Cook 1S usmg a speclmen BS M 0fEd AB BS to lllustrate her talk