Berkeley High School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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Reading is essential, it is a way of living and interpreting life Mrs. Caroline Smid Mrs. Joan Sterrenburg Mhs Anne Smith Mrs. Jacqueline White Mrs. Virginia Wilkie Miss Patricia Wilsey Mrs. Letitia Woodson Mr. Glen Wright Mrs. Rheta Jogo Mr. Willard Moore The Foreign Language Laboratory was re-installed. Individual Study offered The Berkeley High School students who took a modern foreign language the past year had a choice of French, German, Russian, and Spanish. Besides being taught in the classroom, these students also received group and individual instruction in the Foreign Lan- guage Departments Laboratory. The Language Laboratory was re- installed in G200 after being in storage for a year. The Laboratory consists of a separate booth, a microphone, and earphones for each student. This enables the teacher to listen to the whole class, one or more students, or talk to the class or individuals. In the Laboratory, students listen to tapes and watch the slides that accompany them. Mr. Oliver Washburn, Department Head of Foreign Languages, said, The department was able to offer the students Individual Study Service last year because it was now authorized to offer the services of an Audio Visual Materials Aide. Mrs. Gerda David, who was the aide this year had her headquarters in the Language Laboratory and was in charge of all recorded tapes and filmstrips in use by the department. The aide was a great help to individual teachers who brought their classes to laboratory for a twenty-minute period, be- cause she could set up the tapes on the console and have everything ready to begin. Individual study has never been available before for our lan- guage students. With the aide who will start the tapes for students assigned to the laboratory, we were able to offer all foreign lan- guage students the opportunity to use the laboratory at a time when they had a study, often after school or during their lunch periods. The electronic equipment in the foreign language laboratory of today does not take the place of the teacher. Our materials currently in use at Berkeley in modern languages are such that with tape recordings, filmstrips and able teachers the presentation and ex- planation of the language is done in the classroom. The laboratory is used for repetitive drills that have been previously learned in the classroom and for teacher testing of individual students while the rest of the class is repeating the same material. In two years Berkeley High School will have incoming sophomores who have already had four years of a language because sixth graders in Berkeley are now being taught a foreign language. The materials used in all of Berkeley ' s secondary schools are the same for each language. Latin is also taught at Berkeley High School. — Photo by Chris Hum Mr. Oliver Washburn, Department head of foreign languages, and Mrs Gerda David, Audio Visual Ma- terials Aide, are shown here at the console of the new Language Laboratory in G200. Mr. Richard Dillingham Miss Anne Hahne Mr. James Grey 19

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Reading Key to Learning, says Mr. Pendleton With the problem of too much leisure time an imminent threat, students will have to be able to use this time con- structively, says Mr. James Pendleton, English Department Cha irman. White and blue collar workers will have a prob- lem with a three-day week. Educators have an obligation to do something about this situation. The problem is that edu- cation must create for students areas of interest which can be time-consuming. According to Mr. Pendleton, reading can be a key. Stu- dents should be shown why literature is pertinent to their lives. Human experience is written down and if a person is not interested, that is a contradiction of human nature. Our department tries to bring the literature of the language to as many students as possible. There are many students who are not being reached and they, according to Mr. Pendleton, are the ones who will have the worst problem. English is a prime educational instru- ment. Those who cannot read can ' t understand concepts. English does not stop with this department. It is an instru- ment for any subject. Reading, says Mr. Pendleton, is a way of living and inter- preting living. Asking students to read who don ' t have ex- perience is asking them to do something they can ' t do. Every- one must use language and the better he can use it the better off he is. It is impossible to get ahead unless one can read. i — Photo by Jerry McMclain Students should be shown why literature is pertinent to their lives, says Mr. James Pendleton, English department Chairman. M iss Elizabeth Bennett W Mr. Carl Brush Mrs. May Bunts Miss Estelle Changas Mrs. Mary Beck Mr. Burton Filut Mr. Eugene Langille Mr. John Fitzgibbon Mr. Kenneth MacDonald Mrs. Jeanne Hawk Mr. Marquis Patterson Mr. Lucian Copley Miss Miriam Crossen Mr. Earl Kingston Mr. William Kennedy

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The presentation and explanation of the language is still done in the classroom Mr. Francisco Ibarra Mrs. Rheta Jogo Mr. Henry Lorenzo Mrs. Ericka Pillars M iss Beatrice Roost M iss Margaret Rowland Mr. Don Schrump Mrs. Mary Small M iss Arlene Repetto ' General education in Ind. Arts is goal of department says Rajander — Photo by Chris Hum Mr. Robert Rajander, Chairman of the Industrial Arts Department, is observing a General Metals Shop Class. The student in the foreground is John Green. He is repairing a milling machine vise. Victor Thomas is the student on John ' s right. The milling machine vise is for McKinley High School. Berkeley High shop students make teaching aids for other schools. The Industrial Arts Department has a new program, according to Mr. Robert Rajander, Department Chair- man. Last year it was teaching aids for elementary schools, as well as other projects. Mr. Rajander tells about one time when he took a student to an elementary school with such a teaching aid, a beam balance. The student was greeted by the principal and asked to give a demonstration of the balance for a first grade class. The boy was extremely impressed with the reception he received and when he went back to his class he encouraged other students to attempt similar projects. The Industrial Arts Department does not always train for vocations, says Mr. Rajander. We try to give a general education in the industrial arts. We have a cooperative education process which is good for everyone concerned . . . teachers and students alike. Mr. Rajander says that the department is attempting to make its program wide-range and flexible. We try to weed out the obsolete-things which don ' t meet the needs of today. The department tries to offer new courses if enough students ask for them. Our courses are open to everyone, says Mr. Rajander. They are non-compulsory and non-required but good experience, and students, especially boys, should get such experience.