Amarillo High School - La Airosa Yearbook (Amarillo, TX)

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Seniors Challenged bg Chaucer The English Department, headed by Miss Faye Dillingham, fights a never-ending battle to keep Amarillo High School students in shape for college English. Mrs. Stella Matherly said, live been a Sandie for 30 years. Itis teachers like Mrs. Mather- ly, Miss Dillingham, Mrs. Mary Conerly, Miss Jeannie Bookout, and Mrs. Marian Shoen that strive to make our English Department outstand- ing. English is required the first three years of high school and the senior year one semester. The senior requirement can be fulfilled with a senior English course, English composition or vocabulary. Seniors study English literature which includes NMacbeth. Some college preparatory grammar is studied if needed. The works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Eliot, Priestley and other famous English writers are among the reading in senior literature. Juniors study American authors and their lives. Students are required to write a research paper on some author during the course. Cram- mar and American literature are studied through- out the year. Silas Marner is required reading for sopho- mores. Sophomore English is composed of gram- mar, which is stressed more than junior and sen- ior grammar, and both American and English literature. Writing on a theme in her English class is sophomore Janis Crofford. Patricia Diggs muses over the wording in hers. Junior scholars enjoying Mrs. Matherly's first period class are IL to RJ Cindy Finney, Judy Stephenson, Mike Marr, David Jackson, Marilyn Bangsund, David Nimmo, Ricky Belcher and Mike Hudson. 22

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Foreign Speech French is one of the languages taught at Amarillo High. Bobby Rogers, senior, writes a sentence on the board to illustrate a trans- lation in Miss Stephens' class. The geography and history of Mexico are studied in connectio.. with learning the Spanish language. Ben Ingham, junior, des- ignates a,point on the map to the third year Spanish students in Miss McKechnie's class. w Translating sentences on the board in Miss Marie Donnell's Latin class are Helen Booch,.Malcolm Lang, Ronnie Barnett, and Lizabeth Lewis, all sophomores. 2I

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Art Students Cop Area Awards Now if you'd only give me some paper and paint, I'd be glad to begin, says senior Alvin Hiroms as Kenneth Hailey and Gary Nor- man, juniors, work on projects. Art is a means of expression in paints rather than words. At Amarillo High School the art program is varied enough to fit beginning stu- dents as well as advanced artists. Mrs. Mary Townsend, Art 11-12 teacher at AHS for six years, teaches fundamentals of lettering, posters, perspective, modern industrial design and a study of' architecture. Second year students taking Art 21-22 use principles of lettering and posters in the study of commercial art and its many tributaries. Knowledge of advanced color theory is applied in painting landscapes and still life. The climax of the year is a creative arts unit allowing stu- dents to advance their study. Art 31-32 and 41-42 are presented in a less formal manner than preceding art courses. Stu- dents discover the finer points of commercial and advertising art. Contests and displays help fill the year with much variety and also aid our community as well as our school. Mrs. Townsend shows Doug Vaughn, Ronnie Hill, and Ted Zweig points in art class. Talent is showing as senior Alvin Hiroms draws details into a sketch he is doing in art. 23