Alamo Heights High School - Olmos Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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E wi E Mrs. Elaine T. Carol Homemaking Mrs. Albertine W. Gibson Homemaking Mrs. Nila K. Earle Homemaking HOMEMAKING Homemaking is a program designed to meet the home and family life needs of youth and adults in the community. All levels, from the simplest to the more advanced, deal with family relationship, housing, feeding, and clothing the family. Mrs. Velma Hill Pridgen Typing Bookkeeping Mrs. john Hele Typing Stenography eid COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The commercial department seeks to acquaint students with the problems that arise in the business world. Double-entry bookkeeping and accounting principles are taught in Bookkee ing. It is a course that should help everybody in keeping personal, and business rec- ords. In typing students learn the primary fundamentals and attain a fair rate of speed. Typing is useful for any student as well as for would-be stenographers and secretaries. Commercial law is designed to help students cope with legal situations arising from various transactions in daily life. Shorthand is a theory course in Gregg Shorthand, Simplifiedv, and dictation is emphasized the second semester. nfl

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Miss Marjorie Farmer English Col. Harvey F. Dyer English Mrs. M. Harrell English Mrs. Waneta S. Bowman English Mrs. Bay McKaig English ENGLISH

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Mrs. Gertrude R. Conner Latin Mrs. Iacobina B. Harding Miss Dolly D. Harrell Spanish Spanish Mrs. I. A. Reaney Mrs. Thelma Lamb Montellano Spanish Spanish FOREIGN LANGUAGE An extensive study of two foreign languages, Latin and Spanish, is offered to all students. Latin gives a fundamental understanding of the literary back- ground of English and affords an appreciation of a civilization which has contributed greatly to our own language and culture. Basic grammar, vocabu- lary, history, and the translation of simple Latin in the first year progresses to the reading of Caesar's Gallic Wars in the original fonn in the second year. Spanish classes stress the three-Way approach-reading, Writing, and speaking- and include materials and activities aimed at developing a real appreciation for the Hispanic peoples, their language and their cultures. In the advanced courses Spanish magazines, recordings, and movies supplement the study of the novel Jose and an intensive grammar review in the third year, and basic training in commercial Spanish in the senior year. 23