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

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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.

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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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Mr. Oren Piper Mr. Philip St. Martin Students get Broad Training in Industrial Arts Skills Mr. Roy Lindstedt Mr, Herbert Sehlaekman Mr. Douglas Weir • — Photo by Chris Hum Mrs. Molly Larson, Home Economics Department Chairman, helps two students with their sewing. The classes operate in rooms fully equipped with sewing machines, kitchens and other equipment. Says Mrs. Larson, Our courses are designed to prepare students for personal and family living, and the respon- sibility of running a house. The Department offers courses in interior design, clothing, cooking, and child development. Homemaking Prepares Students for Future The purpose of the homemaking department is to help the student determine the course her life will take so that it will be full and satisfying, said Mrs. Molly Larson, Department Curriculum Associate of Homemaking. The courses are de- signed to prepare the student for personal and family living and the responsibility of running a home in the best possible manner. Some of the courses offered to prepare the student for running a home are interior design, clothing, cooking, family, and child development. West Campus students helped run a nursery-school the past year. There was not a nursery-school at the east campus, so the students used Washington School occasionally. The other courses offered by this department explore various careers that are connected with homemaking and children. The students took classes such as nursing, teaching, and food service for one semester. Then jobs were found for them and they would receive work experience credits. One of the jobs the food service class performed was running the coffee bar for the faculty. Mrs. Larsons is also responsible for all the Berke- ley Public Schools ' homemaking courses. Mrs. Hildreth Headrick Mrs. Anita Christie Miss Greba Jackson Miss Caroline Rone Mrs. Gertrude Tenney — Photo by Chris Hum Two Home Economics students, Rosemary Middleton, left, and Patricia Fields, practice cooking in one of the fully equipped kitchens of the Home Economics Department. 21