Balboa High School - Galleon Yearbook (San Francisco, CA)

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- l!lll ' osx., amd 177 '07 'Air ia, xl? ENGLISH DEPARTMENT-First Row tleft to rightl: Mrs. Mr. Nicholas Sernenoff, Mr. Walter Halbasch, Mr. Albert Nuti, Josephine Cole, Mrs. Rose Wiegner, Miss Violet Howard, Mrs. Mr. Phillip Ryan, Mr, Donald Hofvendahl, Mr. Eugene Benefield, Marion Skootsky, Mrs. Florence Cohen, Miss Yvonne Gaul, Mrs. Mr. Harry Leong. Foreground: Department Head: Mr. R. N. Marien Gibson, Miss Rose Linsky. Second Row: Mr. Gene Phillips, Gibson. Mr. Laurance Knox, Mr. Francis Ardourel, Mr, Manug Terzian, 'B'- l , X1 K is l PENNY JQNE5'5 golden locks seem to get in her way as she lzurriex to finish exam. JUST A LITTLE peek worft hurt as Carolyn McDonald frenferj stretches her neck Io see if that one was rzght. Rest, I,-R are, .Sandra Krouxe, Mike Monroe, Carolyn, Barbara Pera, Mike Lee and joe Rodriguez. 4 Y V My .T , .x , 4 --...Z G, , , , -.a - -4 x X ' . -my f ..f.f' ' 4-clit' ' - U .. ' .fi A RAY of sinzslzine if slzerl on sturlenis as they try Io get their 1,0,,,pnr0,-k flmyg in My-5. joseplzzne Coles English Lab. EVERYBODY WAS interested as llie ballots were counted Io see which side won the debate in Mr. Larry Knoxff Public Speaking class.

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ne classroom: America's Fron line DESIGNING a 35100,000 dream house was one of the challenges offered these Mechanical Drawing students. Mr. Harry Dug? looks over a designers shoulder to see how he was coming with the foundation. fupper centerj 'Vi , 'Q . ,, -7i,aaj4:.3, P ' 53 M -.laik A ifrsyjt f V sg wi gi'ia1fsfg,i i fix-3, witgltg. twins' mia'-.-.:, ,.-1,3 , - is., Qt fy ? , 1, - ., 5: - urea, , H . f ' - x r. - aj??yi:. 'ff,,a , '. sz, ,, ' H, ffigief, , 'f -ver - as 1, . E 1- . 7 - 1 ijt Qi' 52644, x -ij-ii , ' 05231. c L ' ' t 'f.:73'i:i'7i'- i '1 I , by rj: A V, V 5.11 reef., .Q i it V J. ','V',,gp:.t,V, 1 if Q A if I , . K -I 1 -1' S ' A ,fy I X V if fflifivix 'Ivy' , , 3 I, -uf. wi- Q , um ,fi is i J - . t ...Wi , r - -....., .. . .,, WAS TEDDY Roosevelt head of the Bull iWoose or the Socialist Party, ponders LoretlrzArnzachure during a US. History test. RACING AGAINST the clock Lolita Salarliz nimble fingers pound out rows of numbers, She is one of hundreds of girls at Bal who will be sure of a job after graduation because of surlz training. II' , R M -s. ' A k rx ' . 1' - .i+-h ,.-..-lL.!n...,,, Sputnic Alerted Us. '4The classroom during 1960 has become the frontline in America's battle to remain a World power, say today's spokesmen for education, And they are right as the Sputnik-alerted age of education has revealed to even the most frivolous that goofing off is now considered the biggest bonehead play of all time. For some 26 percent of Balboa-ites, the three years spent at Buccaneerville is a preparation for college. For the others, it's a training ground to prepare for trades and vocations in the regular Workaday world - without the four year Wait of college. Education - at Bal or elsewhere has its critics - like the Bal senior who leveled this blast: Sixty percent of school is bull. By that I mean rallies, interruptions in classes, taking roll, Waiting for quiet, discipline prob- lems, elections, seniors pictures and stuff like that. I agree that some of that is necessary but it still takes up time. Surprisingly - to that senior and others of his ilk, teachers, deans and principals agree - that too much of school is bull - though they would put it in a more genteel Way. And While the senior might have gone overboard on his percentage, these purveyors of edu- cation agree that much of high school is a repetition of skills that should have been learned in grammar school. Today's school leaders are attempting to redirect the principal energies of youngsters back into a more full- fledged learning program, that recognizes the values of activities, but still retains the belief that the bulk of significant learning occurs in the classroom. 21

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X L to - we K at ft t'x SOCIAL STUDIES DEPARTMENTfFront Row lleft to rightl: Mr. Manug Terzian, Mr. Hyman Bik, Miss Leonora Bailey, Mr. Lee Dolson, Mrs. Gertrude Fischer. Back Row: Mr. Gene Phillips, Mr. Nicholas Kafkas, Mr. Austin White, Mr. Charles Adkisson, Mr. Harold Juster, Mr. John McAuliffe, Mr, William Meyer. Foreground: Department head Miss Veronica Shane. English, Social Studies Improve English and Social Studies have come a long way since the Little Red Schoolhouse with its grammar drills and studies of Hjogerphyf' All that has changed just as the world has changed. Like the world, English and Social Studies have become high powered courses. At Bal, the English department boasts of such courses as Public Speaking, English Lab, Advanced Composition, Drama, Yearbook, Journalism, Reading, and Senior Seminar in English. The last named course is a newly introduced study to acquaint students with the works of modern writers such as Faulkner, Steinbeck and Hemingway. Social Studies has kept pace with courses in Civics, U.S. History, Current Events, and Senior Seminar in Social Studies. The English department has gone even further to bring the full impact of the language arts into the lives of youngsters by dividing students into ability groups of remedial, regular and advanced - in order that each student can progress at his own pace. Mr. R. N. Gibson heads the department. Miss Veronica Shane, the cheery Social Studies department head, points to the selective use of audio-visual aids in the forms of maps, film strips, sound movies and the like to bring history into the classroom. ONLY ONE minute more, pleads Frank Brarnante and George Venezia as they ask instructor for more time to finish flisfussion on Capital Punishment. . , ,L,.LL-.-..-,.L.X ....,-,.,r,..............,..,iW 4.-A CLINGING TIGHTLY ff? every word is ,Indy Mon- teleone and Elaine Mott, feverishly taking notes to make up lost ground before the feared and respected Civics Essen- tials test. STAYING AFTER Class is sometimes the penalty for goofing off as john Relander and two others painfully discover. THE CLASSROOM is not all toil as janet Hester- feldt laughs at a quip tossed out by her his- tory mentar. Lynn Fae- eiano apitfarently 'didn'l think wzatezler it was too funny. Q .4740 fu