Scottsbluff High School - Bluff Yearbook (Scottsbluff, NE)

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Languages Provide InTeresTing Backgrounds MRS. ETHEL PFLUG is completely in charge of, Class Day. and every year makes if a success. She plans The passing oi classes and The an- nouncement of honors. During The school year she is The high school librarian and head sponsor of Ush- ers. MRS. LUCILLE CRUMBUSS is very busy being The iunior librarian. Among her many duTies are check- ing ouT books and making cards for The card caTalogue. She is also a SevenTh Grade English Teacher and The head sponsor of Teen Queens. Barbara STeinmiller and Norman OTT do research worlc in The library. English grammar is necessary Tor cor- recT speech and is Therefore TaughT every year Trom The Time a sTudenT en- Ters iunior high unTil he is a senior. I-le is TaughT how To correcTly use nouns andfverbs besides puncTuaTion, capiTals and agreemenT oT nouns. When a sTudenT sTarTs senior high. he begins The slow process oT learning how To wriTe Themes and Term papers, spelling and vocabulary words, boolc re- porTs and how To use The card caTalogue in a library. Foreign languages play an imporTanT parT in high school. Two years OT sTucly may be Talcen in French. German, LaTin, and Spanish. In each class sTories are TranslaTed and English words are learned as They are inTerpreTed in The diTTerenT languages. 27

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English ' MRS. IVIARCELLA HAYEN teaches American Govern- ment and German I and II. She is a sponsor of Nike and helps every month with the decorating of the bulletin boards on first floor. She al- ways has a new and differ- ent idea Which helps to make the bulletin boards attractive. MISS ALICE CARTER is a sponsor of National Honor Society and the Ushers. She teaches Eighth Grade Engish and Latin I and III. Her Latin students learn to read Ro- man myths in Latin and how to coniugate verbs. MRS. KATY HAWKINS teaches Dramatics and Speech for the Junior Class. She is head sponsor of Thes- pians and sponsors Student Council. She has directed the operettas and the plays, helping the students to put on a better performance. MR. LAWRENCE ALVAREZ is usually seen sitting on his desk discussing a Spanish story or the cases of a noun or a pronoun. He teaches Spanish I and Ill and is a sponsor of the Junior Class. MR. JAMES SAUCERMAN teaches French I and III and iunior English. He can be found sitting on his desk and smiling as he speaks some French to his class or tells them what kind of verse to look for in the next poem that they will read in their literature books. and Foreign W f. TSHRNX . , X -X if-Lx lu 1- i 4 ' ,nj :X YIM .li Dub -are -. JJ . :fait mf JMS -:I-ll, my A ex J Y: k L, , .lf . it as .uf - , lu if I j' rg ' ,uf 1' I 'PLM if vqif 'J ' x l! IEW Q? A JJ x,-Zvi, Mgjlf QA -JD , I fl Km VI 0 ,lvj 1 N x ix FA-P1 I milf, V wx r.. -- ls- Alf' hiwlflf f, ' g Q , - gflf Cf. 'i 'I' A 9' 7 -' V3 eww W it if -,Y -.- Vw- G x.-' 1 I U LV U I J I

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MRS. ESTHER HAMON teaches senior English and Eighth Grade English and is an Eighth Grade sponsor. She covers English literature and gram- mar in her classes. Her duties as Scotts Bluff County chairman of Dem- ocratic Women keep her busy out- side of school. MR. RAY FRAKES prepares his sen- iors for college by having them learn the correct Way to write a theme, study works of Shakespeare, learn the spelling and meanings ot new vocabulary Words and study all rules for good grammar. He is head sponsor of the Junior Class. MISS PHYLLIS SHAUL teaches Eng- lish in grades nine and ten and is a sponsor of Teen Queens. Her stu- dents learn the correct rules of punctuation, capitalization and word usage that are essential for good English. Proper Speech and Good Writing Involve 2. .f'.- i , 1 if- ,J mf-.1 , f i ' 1 , . 1. Y Lair 4 ,..3 . . I Mies. JEAISINETTE l'si5iEFiSEiNf '5vfaQi'l L in graduated from .Hastings College and entered the teaching field be- cause she enioys working with young people. Her tenth grade English classes study grammar and literature. She sponsors the Ushers. 1 .1 , -4 4 ffl 1-3. MISS D'ELLA EGGLESTON teaches ninth grade English. She emphasizes the importance of spelling and vocab- ulary. Her classes spend one day visiting the public library learning how to use the card catalogue and how to find books and magazines. She is head sponsor of the Freshman Class. MRS. LOIS OLSSON is the president of the American Association of Uni- versity Women which keeps her busy besides teaching her morning classes of eighth and ninth grade English. She is one of the Teen Queens spon- sors.