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

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Many New Courses Unnoticed at BHS (Continued from page 21) mon computer languages that they are most likely to encounter. There is another program where the students go to school for the day and work at a 2 period course. A full five units of credit is given for the job and it is open to all students. Some of the places where the students work are, the hospital, child care centers, and at secre- tarial jobs. Mr. Anthony J. Bakos Mr. Warren C. Carlund Mr. Herbert L. Constant “ xm Mr. David A. Coolidge Mr. Roy Lindstedt Mr. Earl M. McDonald Mr. John Jack Mooradian . ■ ' sr ? • — - • J Mr. Louis Patrick Mr. Ray J. Tilley, Jr. Mr. John C. Van Zomeren Mr. Douglas C. Weir, Jr. Mr. Glenn Reynolds talks with Mr. Nash San Martin. No Big Changes in Math Department Mr. Nash San Martin, seated right, was recently ap- pointed as chairman for the Mathematics Department at the High School. Serving in this position, Mr. San Martin was responsible for the administrative operations of the department. His duties included preparing and submitting the department ' s budget and master sched- ule, working with staff members in planning and im- plementing curriculum changes, conferring with stu- dents, parents, counselors and other staff members to determine the most appropriate mathematics course for new or re-entering students and to present the views of the department to the high school ' s administration. Mr. Glenn Reynolds, seated left, is the Curriculum Associate for Mathematics. His duties and responsibili- ties were to help plan and initiate major curriculum changes and to coordinate the mathematics program for grades 7 through 12. In order to achieve these ends, Mr. Reynolds worked very closely with the mathema- tics department heads and staff members of the five secondary schools in the district Willard, Garfield, West Campus, East Campus (McKinley) and BHS. There are no major changes in the math curriculum this year. However, a small group of math students had hands on experience with an IBM 1620 and an op- portunity to perform an R.C.A. Spectra 70. Hopefully by the end of this school year some of these students will be able to program the IBM 1401 which is being in- stalled in the District. Various committees in the department studied the feasibility of: extending our advanced placement in the twelfth year and revising the Math B, Math A, Algebra A, B and C curriculum. Any changes in either of the two items listed above would not have been into effect until Fall ' 68. 22 Mr. John M. Bell Mrs. Frances M. Brown

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Study Seminar Offered to Sophomores Mr. Glenn W. Pape Mrs. Laurel Swisher Mr. John Schuermann Mrs. Molly Larson discusses new program with Mrs. Ger- trude Tenney. Miss Hannah J. Schwartz Mr. Julius Sustaric Miss Thomasine K. B. Mrs. Janet Young Wilson Home Economics Department Strives to Achieve Two Goals One of the first of the two goals the Home Economics department tries to achieve in educating girls, is to help them with their personal living, ' ' said Mrs. Margaret Larson, Curriculum Associate of the Home Economics department. Personal living ranges from clothing to diet to home managing. ' ' The second of the two goals is to help girls develop skills for employment at various levels, continued Mrs. Larson. The Home Economics department prepares girls for employment in food services, and as hospital tech- nicians, nurses, nurses ' aides, therapists, and teachers. The Home Economics department also instructs stu- dents for employment right out of High School, and for Junior College and State College courses. Mrs. Gertrude Tenney is Department Chairman. Mrs. Anita K. Christie Mrs. Hildreth Headrick Miss Greba L. Jackson Miss Caroline Rone Mrs. Gwen Wong Many New Courses Have Gone Unnoticed at BHS The West Campus students, said Mr. Robert Rajander, curriculum associate of the Industrial Arts Department, are now being given Differential Aptitude Tests. These tests are given to find out what kind of aptitude the stu- dent has and what he is vocationally suited for and it is also designed to help his counselor channel him into the proper courses. It is rather disappointing, he continued, that more students aren ' t aware of the new programs which are now being introduced into the school system. One of these courses is a study of computer languages. The students are taught three of the basic and most com- (Continued on nage 22) Mr. Robert Rajander and Mr. Phil St. Martin review proposal.

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Mr. Fred Dunn-Ruiz Mr. Lawrence Lee Mr. Ronald MacDonald Mrs. Audrey Medsker Mr. Richard Menken Mrs. Mildred Morgan Mr. Samuel Newcom Mrs. Ann Ryan Miss Margaret Shedd Mr. Fred Wehking Mr. Leon Westover Mrs. Marva Wilkins Mr. Kirk Young Mr. Robert Pearson, School District Coordinator and Mr. Robert Lutt, Department Chairman. Perfoming Arts Dept. Noted for Outstanding Educational Theatre The Performing Arts Department at Berkeley High combines the disciplines of Dance, Drama, Music and Stagecraft. This amalgamation occurred two years ago. This administrative change has proven to be an asset for the teachers and students involved in the many pro- ductions and concerts. Mr. Robert Lutt is Department Chairman at the high school, while Mr. Robert Pearson is coordinator of Performing Arts for the entire school district. P.A.D. schedules a full and exciting concert and drama season which is consider- ed an extension of the daily curriculum. The department is noted for its outstanding educational theatre and the high calibre of its Band, Orchestra and Choral Groups. P.A.D. offers an enriched cur- riculum of 31 different courses affording opportunity for excel- lent preparation for students who wish to major in music or drama as well as those who have a de- to spend a smaller amount Mr. John Manley sire of time in these disciplines. Mr. William Elliot Mrs. Jacqueline Mr. Thomas Haynes Mr. Peter Kleinbard Hardester 23 Miss Diane MacDonald