Bolton High School - Bruin Yearbook (Alexandria, LA)

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Bolton's faculty, representing eight states and thir- teen colleges, now numbers forty-four teachers. Well trained for their jobs, more than fifty per cent of the teachers hold masters degrees. But not wishing to rest on their past accomplishments, they keep up to the minute by in-service training in summer schools, exten- sion courses, lectures and travel. The school program is divided among several depart- ments—each headed by one of our grand oldtimers. The English department, consisting of nine teachers, is headed by Mrs. Annie Peters, who has been a teacher in the city school system twenty-eight years and a member of Bolton's faculty thirteen years. The Mathematics faculty, with Mrs. L. T. Longmire, a veteran of twenty- three years service at Bolton, as head, ranks second with eight members. With ten years of service at Bolton to his credit, Mr. W. D. McKay heads a group of seven teachers in the social science department. In the science group Mr. Fletcher Rodgers, another of Bolton's ''old timers, is assisted by six teachers. Then last, but by no means least, are the smaller departments: The foreign language, the commercial, the home economics, the library, the art, the occupations, and the shop. Recently in our school program, there was reor- ganized a department of music, consisting of concert band, orchestra, and choral music, under the direction of Mr. Robert C. Gilmore. The physical education program requires two teachers, Miss Pearl Bordelon, who directs the girls' classes, and Mr. Bernard Walker, who supervises the boys' program. Mr. Walker, head coach of athletics, is assisted by a staff of coaches, who are full-time class- room teachers.