Las Animas High School - Trojan Yearbook (Las Animas, CO)

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When she isn’t in the Guidance office Miss Jane Trogdon teaches Civics, So- ciology and U. S. History. This is Miss Hoben's third year at our school. She not only teaches by the book, but puts aside at least two days a week for skits and debates to make an interesting class even more so. 390 enrol led in SOME TAKE IT SERIOUS, SOME DON’T

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Mrs. Dorothy Sanchez, a graduate of Western State College in Gunnison, Colorado, is also a native of Las Animas and teaches English and Biology. Modern fiction, American literature, and folklore are only three of the classes which Mrs. Margaret Dyck taught this year. She has a nickname, “M. D. Dyck,” which she keeps a secret from her students. EXPERIMENTS SYSTEM. Classes offered this year were reading, language. Speech I, Survey of Literary Forms, American Lit- erature, English Literature. World Literature, Folk- lore, Mythology, Advanced Speech, Composition II (Journalism), Composition III (Business English), Composition IV (Creative Writing), Modern Fiction and Drama. Next year Business English will be changed to a separate full year course, and Composition HI will be added as an introductory course for Creative Writing. Miss Janie Irvin, a graduate from Adams State, teaches English and Speech and as- sists the Drama Club.

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Mr. Bird, as the prin- cipal in the spring play, “Accidental Hero : “Look at all those people out there! Mr. Slobko varies his talents from teaching history to teaching typing to coaching basketball. social studies 23 A total of 390 students have taken the many social studies courses offered during the past year. Social studies teachers include Miss Hoben, Mr. Slob- ko, Miss Trogdon and Mr. Byrd. Three social studies credits are re- quired for graduation from LAHS. Freshmen take Civics, sophomores take World History, and juniors take U. S. History. Sociology is an elective for seniors, and World Affairs, which is di- vided into Current Events and World Geography is an elective open to both juniors and seniors. Mr. Byrd, a new history teacher this year, devotes many hours as assistant basketball coach.