Scottsbluff High School - Bluff Yearbook (Scottsbluff, NE)

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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.

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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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MR. ROBERT RICE was a new teacher at SHS this year. He was graduated from Colorado State College of Edu- cation at Greeley. He sponsors the Seventh Grade and teaches English in the Seventh Grade. Speech is taught to every high school student when he is a iunior. l-le learns the qualities at a good speaker and how to teel at ease in tront at an audience. Standing position. gestures, tacial ex- pressions, rate ot speed and enunciation are some ot the things emphasized in Speech. The students give short tallcs on assigned subiects. To learn how to use body gestures and 'Facial expressions, students give pantomimes in groups ot two or three. Also during high school, American and English literature is studied. Prose and poetry by tamous American and English authors is read and learned. ln the iunior and senior years, students read and memorize works ot Shalce- speare. MRS. MURIEL SIEVER teaches both Social Studies and English in the Eighth Grade. She keeps a bulletin board in her room that displays pjo tures and clippings that correspond with the units her social studies classes study. She also sponsors the Junior Class. MRS. PHYLLIS MILLER was graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University and was a new member of the SHS taculty this year. She teaches Seventh Grade English and Eighth Grade reading and is a sponsor ot the Eighth Grade. 0 o Blaine Spurgeon aims her broom caretully at Dave Evans and Dave Bartoot as they participate in a pantomime in speech class.