Bakersfield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Bakersfield, CA)

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lst Row, L to R: Georgia Arnold, Homer Likely, Fred Gibbs. lst Row, L to R: Joy Ruf, Adelaide Schafer, Moybelle Mentzer Josephxne 2nd Row, L to R: Axel Petersen, Gilbert Shimmel, Robert Elliott. Wiley. 3rd Row, L to R: Sidney Lang, Forrest Lynn, Virgil Kirkpatrick. L , P I- - - Not Pictured: Paul VanderEike, Department Head: AI Dennis, Carter 2nd Row' 'D R' ou me Chenowelh' Emma Sandrml' Jewell Coon Phair, Gerald Smith, Ben Sutton. Q' Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chiet-one still has to take a science in high school. The SCIENCE DEPARTMENT taught chemistry, physics, ag. botany and biology. Memorizing tormulas in chemistry and learning about the structure ot animals in biology were students' chiet prob- lems. , Parlez-vous trancais? This tamiliar French expression was not the only thing taught by THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT. Latin was taught to those aspiring to be musicians and doctors. Complicated German tenses were hurled back and torth in classes studying that language. Spanish, the musical language, was the most popular one taught. Sheet metal, mechanical drawing, architectural drawing, machine shop, and auto mechanics were taught by the instructors in the large MECANICAL ARTS DEPARTMENT. Boys made up the greater part ot those classes, but several girls were interested in mechanical knowledge. One group ot students held regular class session at the airport in order to study airplane me- chanics. Teachers tried to give the students practical experience in working with automobiles and other machines. Drawing classes included learning the skill ot measuring complicated tig- ures. lst Row, L to R: Milton Perkins, E. P. Von Leuven, N. D. Shutzman, Clarabelle Elliott, Jock Chorvo, Virginia Sturgeon, Fred Bonor, Robb Walt 2nd Row, L to R: Clarence Reid, Lyman Curtis, Bob Elliott, John Van Osdel, Wilbur Turney, Roy Cross, Walter Stiern, Forest Lynn. 3rd Row, L to R: J. H. Davis, Robert Parson, J. W. Nielson, Alvin Kleinhomple, Don Lucas, Fred Gibbs, Peter Gilli, Harry Drennan, Department Head. 0

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ee Q ist Row, L to R: Kathryn Houston, Editha Nowels, Genevieve Magruder, Anne Keeshan, Eleanor Froter, Departme od 2nd Row, L to R: Lawrence McClure, Damian Matz, Elbert Stewart, Paul Walker, Glendon Rodgers, Cliford Chisolm. rd Row, L to R: Albert Lewis, Don Robesky, lohn Keene, Don Doolin, John Collins, Art Johnson. ff Ed d Compton, Martha Leovell, Pot Patterson, Ruth Emerson Above Right: lst R L to R: Bernard Lustig, Paul Ch efh H h' utc lson. 2nd Row, L lo R D D olin, George Williamson ur Jnalruciord Social science 'reachers held an imporlanf posilion-+ha+ of leaching s'luden+s 'lhe relalionship belween 'lhemselves and governmenl. If a sludenf asked, Whal' is a definilion 'lor communism, +he ins+ruc+or would have +o know if as readily as he knew lhe dale l492. Freshmen sludied hislory 'from 'lhick blue books, and learned abou'l s'l'uden+ governmenl' also.-Why is hislory a required subiecl? The SOCIAL SCI- ENCE DEPARTMENT gave +he answer +o many pupils. For sludenls who wanled 'lo become Rembrandfs and Van Dykes, 'lhere was lhe ART DEPARTMENT. Wilfully splallering wilh wa+er colors or carefully culling a sfencil, lhe sl'uden+ quickly learned if he had any arlislic abilily. Bakersfield sludenls ex- hibifed a +alen+ed display on Visilors Day. The STUDY HALL in Library 207 was supervised by Mr. Gerrard and his assislan+s. Over 2l00 Bakersfield sludenls enrolled in sludy hall. If lhey had nolhing 'lo do, popular magazines could be checked ou'l or +hey could reporl 'ro 'lhe library a+ 'lhe beginning of fhe period. Tardiness was made up wilh +wen+y minu+es, and dislurb- ing chaH'erers also received minules . . . Rows A, B, C, D . . : wilh seals I, 2, 3, 4: 5 . . . a place 'For sfuudy, and well-known by everyone.

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Of lst Row, L to R: Peter McPhail, Vic Robinson, Ernest Dalbom, Cap Horalson, Department Head, Earl Sargent. ist Row, L to R: H. K. Dickson, Department Head, Ben Sutton, Carter Phair, C. M. Homer, Harvey Brockmeyer. 2nd Row, L to R: Harry Holmes, Charles Taggart, J. Vvl. Nielson, Mar- vin Cross. 3rd Row, L to R: Peter Luppen, Ed Luttrup. 4th Row, L to R: John Knight, Joe Bridges, Bob Davidson, Clarence Reid, George Cliff. 2nd Row, L to R: Bill French, John Harp, George Williamson, Carl Serra. The Bakerstield AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT boasted a very active program. Under Mr. H. K. Dickson, agriculture teachers taught classes at the school tarm. Students with proiects received help on problems that arose. Those who were interested studied scientific methods ot tarming. Besides regular classes, agriculture instructors sponsored Future Farmer groups. Prize hogs, cows and chickens were exhibited at the annual tair. Basketball, baseball, 'Football and swimming were among the sports taught by BOYS' PHYSI- CAL EDUCATION teachers. Getting the little teller on the end to participate in activi- ties was iust as important as teaching the muscle boys to shoot baskets. On cold days a simple warm-up was running around the track and up and down the stadium. Boys' hygiene classes were noisy, and teachers tried, not always with success, to be as patient as Job. 1' ' I 1 f ,f f Af it ,L yi N1x,4,MlfWf'lji R lx To Lett: lst Row, L to R: Laura Heyd, Dwight Griffith, De- partment Head: Edith McLean, Wallace Johnson, Mary Eliza- beth Waggoner. 2nd Row, L to R: Fred Gibbs, George Osborn, Margaret Myer and AI Parker. Not Pictured: Eileen Bowling, Robert Coombs, Allan Gru- man, Joe Koegler, Bernard Lustig, Calvin Mueller, William Nielsen, Paul VonderEike, Ronald Clark, Sallolee Ryan. lt Tom had 20 marbles and lost 570 ot them to Jim and won twice that number from Ned, how many marbles would he have? Questions like these were the prob- lems ot the MATHEMATICS DEPART- MENT who taught general mathema- tics, algebra, geometry, business arith- metic and trade mathematics, and everything trom 2 x 2 to complicated theorems. Gardner Annex was the place 'For most BUSINESS EDUCATION classes. Those who planned to be stenogra- phers, typists, bookkeepers, and clari- cal workers received most ot their training from the I9 business instruct- rs. lst Row, L to R: Louis Davy, Department Head, George Kyle, Hester Kinneor, Clara Holmes, George Osborn. 2nd Row, L to R: Mildred Virts, Marion Carson, Lucille Por- menter, Wylie Jones, Don Doolin. 3rd Row, L to R: Mary Ritchie, Wallace Johnson, Paul Walker, Otto Aspberger. Ath Row, L to R: Lois Veal, Dorothy Bitner, Gladys White, Dick Tigner. I4