Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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P.E. Recognized as Essential Miss Koopmans instructs underclassmen. Physical fitness is one of the most important goals of the physical education department. The interesting but strenuous program includes training in team sports such as volleyball and basketball, and individual skills such as swimming, and tumbling. It is hoped that each P.E. student can be rated in the top half of the nation’s average, physical-fitness wise. These good-natured instructors, who direct the physical fitness program of our school, are: Donovan Phillips, Eliza¬ beth Koopmans, and Jerry Mosby, athletic director. Not pictured is Priscilla Gauthier. Ready, go! Mr. Phillips leads the boys in their daily calisthenics.

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Foreign Language Program Expands “Repeat after me,” requests Mrs. Gross of her first year German students as she turns on the tape recorder. Magdalene Gross, our Ger¬ man and French teacher, who transferred here from the As- tori-a Junior High, has spent nine years in Germany. She has a Master of Arts degree and has attended Columbia University in New York and Munich Univer¬ sity in Germany. Lionel Yeaman, who teaches Spanish, comes to us from Long¬ view, Washington, where he taught Latin, Spanish, and French for ten years in the pub¬ lic schools. He is a foreign lan¬ guage major and has his Bache¬ lor of Arts degree. He also teaches French in the junior high part-time. Carl Carlson, Latin teacher, assists Peggy Knutsen with verb conjugations. “Ay, ay, ay, ay, canta y no llores . . . Lionel Yeaman, Spanish teacher at Astoria High, teaches a beautiful song, “Cielito Lindo, to his class. To set the mood, he wears an authentic Mexican costume. There is an increasing need for Americans to know more than the English language. With flying time from New York-only 6 hours to Paris and 8 hours to Berlin, we feel Europe is now a very close neighbor. This year German has been introduced for the first time in our ever-expanding foreign lan¬ guage program which also includes French, Spanish, and Latin.

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Math Background Important William Reuter, math instructor, demonstrates the adding of com¬ plex numbers on a graph to an advanced algebra class. Eugene Lukoszyk explains consumer math. Esther Jensen, algebra teacher, instructs Dick Holman on a tough algebra problem. ' Does Mr. Reuter have his red tie on? ' Anxious students often ask this question, trying to find out if a quiz is pending before “hitting the books. To some students math is only a required course; to others it is chal¬ lenge; but to a smaller group it is an enjoyable experience. Today a solid background in math is essential in almost any technical vocation. Even for students who do not pursue a mathematical career, math will be useful in any job or in daily life. A wide variety of math courses are offered at Astoria High. These in¬ clude general math, algebra, plane geometry, advanced algebra, trigo¬ nometry, .and consumer math.