Balboa High School - Galleon Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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at if-Q' M- 3' Q SCIENCE DEPARTMENT-First Row: Cleft to rightl: Mr. Allan Hummel, Miss Francis Todd, Mrs. Gertrude Hasselbrock, Mrs. Ruth Mitchell. Second Row: Mr. Raynond Valdez, Mr. Samuel Risken, Mr. Howard Jeter, Mr. Selby Morse. Foreground: Mr. Arthur Taylor, Science Department head. Science Department Called 'Dandy' It's a dandy, joked the crew-cut Science Department head when asked to sum up his feelings about his department. Clad in his inevitable tweed coat, Mr. Arthur Taylor, the chief of the department was not too far from the truth. Bal's science program offered everything from disecting a rat to see what made it tick, to searching for fossiles along the coast line of California. Even a two period class in Horticulture, which used the facilities of City College, was included in the science offerings of Bal, one of the few high schools in California to offer such a course. With the challenge of Sputnik facing them, high school students have leaped into the breach, with an increased enrollment of 55 per- cent in science courses since Sputnik. The government has supported the gung ho spirit in science by sometimes paying one half of all college expenses in the test tube and math fields. According to Mr. Taylor, nearly every college in the U.S. is enrolled in this program. CHEMISTRY STUDENTS hurry to finish their tests. Success means a good chance for college acceptance. -V ws -amps femur- f-em-,W-fam. wi ff- . M .e 0,-W -...pie . -,-.sw -- -..su MR, HUMMEIJS chem classes were a beehive of activity as the search for scientific facts ruseo test tubing his way found the likes of Leonar d Bor- through a bevy of symbols. n'-css GRID STAR Phil Petrovsky prepares an experiment in testing for acids and bases.

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X L to - we K at ft t'x SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENTfFront Row lleft to rightl: Mr. Manug Terzian, Mr. Hyman Bik, Miss Leonora Bailey, Mr. Lee Dolson, Mrs. Gertrude Fischer. Back Row: Mr. Gene Phillips, Mr. Nicholas Kafkas, Mr. Austin White, Mr. Charles Adkisson, Mr. Harold Juster, Mr. John McAuliffe, Mr, William Meyer. Foreground: Department head Miss Veronica Shane. English, Social Studies Improve English and Social Studies have come a long way since the Little Red Schoolhouse with its grammar drills and studies of Hjogerphyf' All that has changed just as the world has changed. Like the world, English and Social Studies have become high powered courses. At Bal, the English department boasts of such courses as Public Speaking, English Lab, Advanced Composition, Drama, Yearbook, Journalism, Reading, and Senior Seminar in English. The last named course is a newly introduced study to acquaint students with the works of modern writers such as Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway. Social Studies has kept pace with courses in Civics, U.S. History, Current Events, and Senior Seminar in Social Studies. The English department has gone even further to bring the full impact of the language arts into the lives of youngsters by dividing students into ability groups of remedial, regular and advanced - in order that each student can progress at his own pace. Mr. R. N. Gibson heads the department. Miss Veronica Shane, the cheery Social Studies department head, points to the selective use of audio-visual aids in the forms of maps, film strips, sound movies and the like to bring history into the classroom. ONLY ONE minute more, pleads Frank Brarnante and George Venezia as they ask instructor for more time to finish flisfussion on Capital Punishment. . , ,L,.LL-.-..-,.L.X ....,-,.,r,..............,..,iW 4.-A CLINGING TIGHTLY ff? every word is ,Indy Mon- teleone and Elaine Mott, feverishly taking notes to make up lost ground before the feared and respected Civics Essen- tials test. STAYING AFTER Class is sometimes the penalty for goofing off as john Relander and two others painfully discover. THE CLASSROOM is not all toil as janet Hester- feldt laughs at a quip tossed out by her his- tory mentar. Lynn Fae- eiano apitfarently 'didn'l think wzatezler it was too funny. Q .4740 fu

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I I A1 1 I I I I W. II II ' s If ., ,. I. II I if F I I I I I I TI I 'I I W. I I I v k . I E I I .Q lvlath I-reacted to Sputnik's Impact Math teacher Richard Rice sauntered over to the desk of the tiny blonde student, casually handed her a piece of chalk and barked: Show me how you would figure out how many miles it is to the moon. Without batting an eye, the trim lass strode to the board and a few minutes later had Mr. Rice's answer for him. It is doubtful if Mr. Rice ever put the information the little gal came up with to practical use - that is, he still hasn't left for the moon. But the learning that occurs in Bal's math classes, Whether in Trigonometry, Analytic Geometry, Calculus, or the myriad of underclassmen's courses, more than prepares Bal students for the battles to be faced on the firing line of high-powered college courses. While grades were hard to come by in this department, students did feel that more than regular textbook match math was on the menu. As one chalk-stained senior math major put it, We learned a lot of the practical aspects of math, besides the theoretical stuff. Department head Miss Marjorie Maher stressed that Bal's math department was more than ready for the 45 percent increase in enrollment felt by the department since the Sputnik tempest MARTHA ALINDUGAN listens attentively to Mr. 0'Brien explain the solution to a difficult problem. ' YOUNG MATH teacher Mrs. julia Housek points out to a geomeiry class how to construct a perpendicular Io a given line. 1 au.......,.,.., .. ,, DEPARTMENT-First Row: Cleft to rightlz Miss Norma Klaus, Mr. Ha,rpIdy0'Brien, Mrs. Julia Housek. Second Row: Mr. Salvatore Billeci, Mr. Ldt1is1Muschi, Mr. Richard Rice. Foreground: Miss Marjorie Maher, Math B??H. .3..fifE.l!?.?9-. ,,,e. FINDING THE number of square inches in a parallele- 1- gram was the problem being worked out by Linda Goodson and Dan 0'Connor. CONCENTRATION, BOREDOM and mirth are the ingredi- ents that make up any class. i , X ,,,,