Berkeley High School - Troubadour Yearbook (Berkeley, MO)

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Physically Fit Coordination and muscle development of Larry Kuhlm-an and Bob Freeman are in- creased by rope climbing. Mr. Roscoe Branch, a sports-minded teacher, is teaching physical education and drafting this year. In the drafting classes they study graphic constructions, lettering, dimensions, Mr. Branch checks the boys in his gym classes using President Kennedy's Physical Fitness Program. sections and notes and from what they learn, the students go on to make the actual draw- ings. During the school year he coaches the B team in basketball and he also referees games. He has taught for nine years at Berke- ley High School and six years in the Flat Riv- er, Missouri, schools. Mr. Branch is also a sponsor of the Junior Class and supervises primarily the candy ma- chines forthe Class. During the summer vacation, Mr. Branch acts as assistant manager at the Holiday Hill Pool. He referees football games during the fall until basketball season starts. He enioys golf in his spare time.

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Among The many new Teachers This year is Mrs. Mary Bentele ot The girls' Physical Education Department. Mrs. Bentele, a graduaTe OT Northeast Missouri State Teachers College, came To us from Feitshans High School in Springfield, Illinois, with Two years of Teach- ing experience. Mrs. Bentele sponsors The Pep Club and after-school sporTs. Sewing anal sporTs - such as bowling, Tennis and water-skiing - capture her interest. Marriage and a honeymoon To The East Coast made This past summer especially exciTing and happy for her. Mrs. Bentele has future plans Toward obtaining a Mas- Ter's degree and dreams of a Trip To Europe. Mrs. Bentele pauses while demonstrating proper volleying position in playing volleyball.

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'I Q' A N :alex y -- sr, Louis county TECHNICAL SCI-IOCDI. Sixteen Juniors and Seniors from Berkeley High Attend Our County Technical School Electronic Data Processing. The St. Louis County Technical School, located in the Berkeley School District, is offering six areas of voca- tional and technical training to two hundred and eighty juniors and seniors from eighteen county school districts during the l962-63 -school year. Berkeley High School students have taken the opportun- ity to prepare themselves tor industry and the world of work during the past tive years that the technical Electronics. bf 'QQ-1. - -ng, Tool Design. school has been located in our district. The courses offered through the Cooperating School Dis- trict's program are: Machine Shop, Sheet Metal, Ma- chine Drafting, Tool Design, Electronics and Date Pro- cessing. Gur technical school is the only public school in the State of Missouri oltering this training to high school seniors. The computer center has equipment valued at Sl67,000. 5 --., balsa---...,,,, rt' 5' '44 B3 f Machine Shop.