Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Social Living Classes Are Heterogeneous Mr. Stern leads a discussion during his 10th period social living class. The Social Living Department, one of the two smallest de- partments of the school has one full-time, two half-time teachers and a curriculum associate. The course began in the 1964-65 year when a group of students requested a course dealing with drugs and sex education. A tenth grade pilot course was held in the spring of 1965. The next year, in 1966, one-half of the tenth grade students were placed in the course. In 1967 and 1968, the course was established as a required tenth grade course. Mr. Trainor, curriculum associate, mentioned that the big problems are the facilities, the condition of the classrooms in M-3 and M-4 and the noise of traffic on street. The ideal department, described by Mr. Trainor, would have smaller classes and lounge furniture would be introduced to produce more of the casual seminarial effect. There would be enough money and a class schedule flexible enough to allow for field trips. An unsolvable and recurrent problem is the lack of in- formation describing and evaluating new materials. As a result, there is no opportunity for the teacher to evaluate the books or films before the class sees them. Mr. Trainor mentioned that his department was successful because it was heterogeneous, both racially and academically. The students were involved in setting up the class projects. The class also discussed topics relevant to the teenager. Things that were new for 1969 included in-service training for all the teachers and the rise of use of television. The teachers also planned to use a video-tape set up to evaluate teachers and the effectiveness of student participation. MR. JAMES TRAINOR Curriculum Associate for Social Living MRS. ROSALIND SINGER Social Living students construct a poster during class. -)z

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Excellent Participation In Science Fair MR. CLESSON MISS AKEMI HARVEY NAGAFUJI MR. JAMES DICKEY MRS. BARBARA MR. CLAYTON LEWIS LITTLE MR. JEFFERSON NASH MR. ROBERT SIKORA MR. ALEXANDER PANASENKO MR. BRUCE WHIPPERMAN 22

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MISS JOYCE ANDERSON Swahili Scheduled For Spring Semester MR. DONALD SCHRUMP MR. JORGE CHAVEZ Curriculum for the Foreign Language Department changed drastically this year. Most radical of these innovations was the scheduling of an East African language, Swahili, into the spring semester. Another important revision was the use of new texts from Encyclopedia Britannica in all Spanish and German classes. This series of books was also extended to the Berkeley secondary schools, providing unification and better opportunities for individual advance- ment. Approximately one-half the student body is involved in the department making it one of the largest in the school. Mr. Trentacoste, department chair- man, attributed most of the success of the department to its well qualified faculty members and the respect Berkeleyans have for foreign languages. MR. OLIVER WASHBURN Curriculum Associate for Foreign Languages MRS. ERICKA PILLARS MRS. JOYCE NEWCOMER MISS ARLENE REPETTO MISS BEATRICE ROOST MRS. MARY SMALL MR. JOSEPH TRENTACOSTE MR. HENRY LORENZO ■HHP MRS. BEVERLY MAIMONI 24