Astoria High School - Zephyrus Yearbook (Astoria, OR)

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NEW VARIETY IN English Department John Price, eight years at A. H. S., teaches Junior and Senior English in such courses as Basic Composition and the Bible as Literature. Dennis Forrester, his eighth year at A. H. S., teaches Practical English. Verna Davis works as a teacher ' s aid in the new English resource center. It is her eight year at A. H. S. Josephine Swanson, twelve years at A. H. S., F. T. A. advisor, under-took the teaching of The Comic Imagination as one of her courses.

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BUSINESS EXPERIENCE Prepares for job Business classes at A. H. S. are aimed at providing students with the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in the business world. Classes include shorthand I and II, bookkeeping I, accounting I, typing, office practice, economics, typing review, and briefhand. A new class offered this year was business law. This class helped to show students how the legal world effects them. 1 A1 Jacobsen: 2 years; bookkeeping I, business law, economics I, varsity basketball coach; B.S. , Idaho State, M.A., Whitworth College. 2 Mrs. Lois Klessig: 2 years; office practice, shorthand I and II, typing review, typing I, senior class advisor; B.S., Oregon State. 3 Don G. Fluharty: 4 years; typing I, typing review, briefhand, accounting; B. S. University of Idaho. 1 1

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Breaking away from the traditional English, this year’s English department was split into several sections. Students were able to choose the four subjects they wanted to study for the year. A different subject was offered each nine weeks. Some of the classes were; comic imagination, film discussion, the Bible as literature, mass media, and numerable other topics. 1 Mr. Hickman, intern in Eng. and History. 2 Miss Hildenbrand 4 year veteren in Senior and Junior English. 3 Mrs. Everett intern in English. 4 Mr. Alborn has the Journalism and Senior and Junior English. 5 Mrs. Bingham teaches Speech I and Senior English.