Valley High School - Saga Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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Largest, Headed by Earl Parker I I a l i -I i Ms. Fiske discusses a short story with her first period class. The English Department, Valley's largest, is headed by Earl Parker. Its 14 members teach a wide variety of subjects including English II, Senior English, Reading Experiences, Dra- matic Literature, Shakespeare, Writ- ing Experiences, Science Fiction, Gothic Novel, and Literary Back- grounds. New to the English curricu- lum this year was Magazines and Newspapers, taught by Lawrence Cook and Ethnic Literature taught by Iane Murphey. Students in Maga- zines and Newspapers studied these media carefully analyzing such things as news biases of reporters and the traditional 5-W's. In Ms. Murphey's Ethnic Litcra- ture class students read the works of such minority authors as Scott Momaday, Rudy Anaya, and Iames Baldwin. BONNIE TEMPLETON MA Education English II, Drama, Senior English QQQQ EARL PARKER MARY M. RHODES BARBARA SALAZAR COLLEEN SEELEY IANE WILLIAMS BA Education MA English BA Education BA History MA English Science Fiction, Gothic English II, Senior English, Senior English, English II Senior English, Survival Semantics, Creative Writ- Novel Review of Language ing, Senior English

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English Department, Valley's' ,W f Ms. Ashbaugh goes over an assignment with Shirley Ortiz while Georgia Downs reads a book. ROBERTA ASHBAUGI-I SHARON BALL LAWRENCE COOK Ms. Williams discusses problems with word BS Education MS English MA Special Ed11CHfi0H definitions in her Semantics class. English II, Senior English Legend, Saga, English II, Seniflf Practical English, E118- Informative Writing lish II, Magazines and News- papers - 'S Q 4 In f 5 REBECCA DAVIS KATHLEEN FISKE KATHY KNITTLE DONNA MILLER IANE MURPHEY BA English MA English BA Education BA Education MA English English II, Southwestern English II, Creative Writ- English II, Senior English Senior English, Speech I, English II, Senior English, Literature ing Dramatic Literature, Eng- Literary Backgrounds, lish II Ethnic Literature

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The History Department, headed by Buddy Robertson, made several changes this year in courses. Ameri- can Government, taught by Phil Ewing, was one new class which was an introductory course to political science. The class was mostly about national, state, and local govern- ments, with sections of each depart- ment in national government. Comparative Communism, also taught by Mr. Ewing, discussed Com- munism around the world and the way that form of government got started. Victor Crocco also taught two new courses this year: World Issues and Great Events in History. Students of the World Issues class voted at the first of the year what issues they wanted to discuss. Some issues cho- sen were energy crisis, pollution, the plight of the Indians, and Watergate. A new teacher in the History Department was Kathy Buck, who taught US History. With the two- credit system, which is in its second year, juniors had to do an outside project which accounted for much of their final grade. Many students took Sociology I, and for those who were more advanced, there was Sociology II. These classes were taught by Lasell Rector and Christine Willis, respec- tively. Social Studies Department Puts . - Ii Discussing an assignment in World Religions are Ray McKenzie, Brent Brito, Lorraine Iaramillo, and Anna Andrade. KATHY BUCK FRANK CHAMBERS VICTOR CROCCO PHIL EWING BA English BA History MS Social Studies BS Education US History, English II US History US History, History of US History, American Government, Compara- tive World Communism Europe, History of Africa, Great Events in History, World Issues, Social Stud- ies Survey