Bakersfield High School - Oracle Yearbook (Bakersfield, CA)

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l Peek inTo any class TaughT by The DRAW- ING DEPARTMENT and you will see The engineers and archiTecTs oT The TuTure. Maiors in This deparTmenT sTarT wiTh The sTudy and pracTice oT basic principles used in mechanical drawing. Advanced courses prepare sTudenTs To become archiTecTuraI or machine draTTsmen. PreparaTions are made Tor The TurTherance oT sTudy in archiTecTure or engineering. Right: Drawing Department: Front and seated, George Gurr, Department Head: 2nd Row, L to R: Lowell Nelson, Ed Welz, Albert Roach, Raymond Buckle. Not Shown, Clar- ence Cullimore. ' Our Hidden Talents The ART DEPARTMENT Teaches sTudenTs how To creaTe a balanced picTure in regard To design, painTing, and harmony. In arT hisTory advanced sTudenTs compare diTTerenT periods oT arT. The purpose oT The MUSIC DEPARTMENT is To Try To expand The charms oT music by Teaching vocal music, insTrumenTal music, and music Theory. Groups Trom This deparTmenT presenTed many numbers in assemblies and concerTs. Below: Art Department: Row I, L to R: Faye Stark, George Rippeyp Below: Music Department: 'lst Raw, L to R: Calvin Mueller, Ronald Ruth Emerson, Department Head, Patricia Patterson, Jack Hopkins. Clark. 2nd Row, L to R: Wesley Moore, Blanche Patton, Harold Not Shown: Eva Lefevre. Burt, Department Head.

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Upper Left: Study Hall: Front and seated, L to R: Emily Renner, Above: Home Economics Department: Row l, L to R: Esther Shell- Wesley Moore, Faye Stark. Standing, L ta R: Carter Phair, Harold man, Margaret Moore, Tena Marion: Lida Siemon, Department Burt, Harald Hendry, Bernard Lustig, Lawrence LaFand. Herld: ChI'iSfiv1e Bufkdoll- ROW 2, L to Ri FOYG Sfflfke, GlGdYS Many students welcomed the opportunity to do their homework in STUDY l-lAl.l., which was supervised by the prociors. The instructors of the HOME ECONOMICS DEPARTMENT laughl many girls the new arts oi homernalcing as well as the old. Praciical appli- cations were made oi new appliances, such as the deep freeze and the auiomaiic washing machine. With the aid oi the IZO acre school farm laboratory, the teachers of the AGRlCULTURE DEPARTMENT instructed boys in the ways oi farming and livesioclc raising. Penn, Emily Renner, Dorothy McCrath. Not Shown: Bess Hallagan. They Brought Out Below left: Agriculture Department: Row I, L to R: Bob David- son, Harvey Brockmeyer, Harry Holmes, Jim Gardiner. Row ll, L to R: John Knight, Dale Duncan, George Cliff, Lewis Cook, Howard Dickson, Department Head. Below: Agriculture Department: Row I, L to R: Peter Luppen, Ed Lutlrop, Merle Tobler, Frank Nagel. Row ll, L to R: Ben Sutton, Clarence Reid, J. W. Nielsen.

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SoTTbaII, basIceTbaII, Tennis and archery- Those are The Tour TavoriTe sporTs in The GIRLS' PI-IYSICAL EDUCATION DEPART- MENT. The purpose oT This deparTmenT is To provide a weII-rounded program of acTiviTies Tor high school girls. The eleven insTrucTors know how To call a square dance. reTeree a TasT hockey game, and do abouT everyThing Trom using a good backehand Tennis sTroke To hiTTing The buII's eye in archery. Left: Girls' P. E. Department: Row I, L to R: Dorothy Rounsavell, Betty Mulvano, Lucille Billings, Betty Moehnke, Margo Robesky. Row II, L to R, Caroline Friel, Mary Donaldson, Helen Bullo, Department Head, Helga Hildebrand. They Struggled Throu h The husTIe and busTIe oT The MECHANICAL ARTS DEPARTMENT can be heard and seen in iTs diversiTiecI subiecTs, woodship, sheeT meTal, auTo mechanics, aviaTion mechanics and elec- TriciTy. This deparTmenT gives pracTicaI experience in The handling' and repair oT auTomobiIes and oTher machines. Progressing Trom The smaller problems in mechanical drawing To The bigger ones in aviaTion mechanics, sTudenTs soon develop a Thorough and ready Icnowledge oT Their parTicuIar indusTriaI Trade. A course in archiTecTuraI drawing is also popular among Those inTer- e:Ted in The compIicaTed arT oT building. Below: Mechanical Arts Department, Row l, L to R, Jerry Smith, S. D. Gates, Wilbur Turney. Row ll, L to R: Peter Gilli, Robert Par- sons, Jack Charvo, Burr Scofield, Rob Walt, Milton Perkins. Row Below: Mechanical Arts Department: Row I, L to R, J. H. Davis, Ill, L to R: Harry Drennan, Department Head, John Von Osdel, Lyman Curtis, Walter Stiern, Fred Bonar, Don Lucas, Alvin Klein- Harry Gaul, Clarence Reid, Lowell Nelson, Forrest Lynn, Sid Long. hample, N. D. Stutzman. Row Il, L to R: Pete Smith, Leo Meyer, Not pictured, J. W. Nielsen. Raymond Cross.