Boulder City High School - Aquila Yearbook (Boulder City, NV)

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ENGLISH She was nothing short of a demon in the classroom . . . with homework . . . oral grammar tests . . . outside reading . . . weekly themes . . . research papers . , . literature appreciation . . , and even sound-off . . . but we knew if we paid attention we wouldn't be in bone-head English in our freshman year in college . . . Mrs. Mitchell had fun with us doing the Conga and cha-cha-cha , . , she did a terrific iob with our annual every year . . . and shared sponsorship of F.T.A. with Mr. Nelson . . . Mr. Norman was a fanatic on English grammar, but our background helped us when we took senior Eng- lish . . . he didn't ever hurt any of us . . . now we wonder why . . . he should have , , . he had us in our green days . . . when it was more important, we thought . . . to be clever than to be intelligent . . . he sponsored us when we were in the 8th grade . . Mrs. Segerblom taught us English and wsrld history, sponsored us in our senior year . . , checked books to us in the library . . . and told us about the healtha producing seaweed . . , demonstrated correct posture . . . and advised us to get a slant board like hers . . . we liked it all because she had enthusiasm for her iolo . . . we liked the human interest stories she brought to class . . . her love for boating and water sports made her the envy of many of us . . .

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Yes, we learned beginning French . , . in various ways . . . sometimes in song , . . literature . . . drill . . . and conversation . . . when Sharon brought her accordion to class, classes within earshot had to stop and listen . . . l LANGUAGE , 5 X .X Senor Whelan was a mighty good Spanish teacher, but he never passed up an opportunity to talk about baseball, be it the Pittsburgh Pirates or the BCHS team which he coached . . . he sponsored the language club which was made up of Spanish and French students , . . R7

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n the inte- really didn't often . he track x SGIEQ si,g Mr. McManus . . . we tried to give him a bad time in iunior high . . . but he caught on to us early . . . in world history . . . it was learn, learn, learn . . . not always world history, though . . . sometimes . . . the best in current theater production . . . movie land or grand opera . . . he was president of the county teachers' group and occasionally we got in on a few of his professional problems . . . Those surprise quizzes Mr. Foreman faced us with almost every day threw us for a loop often, but we made it through math in iunior high . . . and checked in again as iuniors for American History . . . we'll remember him for his good coaching as assistant football coach, and JV basketball, and as sponsor of sophomore class . . .