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

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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

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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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at if-Q' M- 3' Q SCIENCE DEPARTMENT-First Row: Cleft to rightl: Mr. Allan Hummel, Miss Francis Todd, Mrs. Gertrude Hasselbrock, Mrs. Ruth Mitchell. Second Row: Mr. Raynond Valdez, Mr. Samuel Risken, Mr. Howard Jeter, Mr. Selby Morse. Foreground: Mr. Arthur Taylor, Science Department head. Science Department Called 'Dandy' It's a dandy, joked the crew-cut Science Department head when asked to sum up his feelings about his department. Clad in his inevitable tweed coat, Mr. Arthur Taylor, the chief of the department was not too far from the truth. Bal's science program offered everything from disecting a rat to see what made it tick, to searching for fossiles along the coast line of California. Even a two period class in Horticulture, which used the facilities of City College, was included in the science offerings of Bal, one of the few high schools in California to offer such a course. With the challenge of Sputnik facing them, high school students have leaped into the breach, with an increased enrollment of 55 per- cent in science courses since Sputnik. The government has supported the gung ho spirit in science by sometimes paying one half of all college expenses in the test tube and math fields. According to Mr. Taylor, nearly every college in the U.S. is enrolled in this program. CHEMISTRY STUDENTS hurry to finish their tests. Success means a good chance for college acceptance. -V ws -amps femur- f-em-,W-fam. wi ff- . M .e 0,-W -...pie . -,-.sw -- -..su MR, HUMMEIJS chem classes were a beehive of activity as the search for scientific facts ruseo test tubing his way found the likes of Leonar d Bor- through a bevy of symbols. n'-css GRID STAR Phil Petrovsky prepares an experiment in testing for acids and bases.