Brackenridge High School - La Retama Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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Gary Kay Moore Higgins Fraley Goodwin Brinkman Phillips The central office where service is the watchword. Administration MR. GARY’S and Mr. Kay’s offices function with the school office. Faculty members, parents and students bring to Mr. Gary questions of every kind which he settles justly, wisely and sympathetically. Mr. Kay supervises the discipline of the boys, advises them about their choice of subjects, and keeps a record of their work. Our dean, Miss Moore, officially represents the girls of Brackenridge. She coordinates their interests and is their spokesman and counselor. She assists the girls in their choice of subjects in relation to college or vocations; supervises the extra-curricular and social activities, and especially looks after the health of the girls. Four girls each period, two juniors and two seniors who must be making satisfactory grades, help perform the many duties of Miss Moore’s office and arc rewarded with sendee cards. The aim of the attendance office is service to the faculty and parents. Miss Higgins is in charge, assisted each period by six students who receive service cards for their work. This office looks after and keeps records of everything in connection with the attendance of nearly two thousand students. Miss Fraley and Miss Hunter are improving the library as fast as time and funds permit. Room 203 is now the library work room. Miss Goodwin, school cashier, has moved her desk to room 209, headquarters for school banking and employment. Miss Brinkman and Miss Phillips in the school office attend to a multitude of duties growing out of every phase of the school’s busy life.

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The pulse of the British government—Houses of Parliament with Big Ben, the official time-keeper. ONDUCTORS AND GUIDES ---FACULTY

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Mathematics BECAUSE mathematics is the foundation of all sciences and because it enters into every walk of life, leaving its peculiar stamp upon civilization, it is desirable that pupils should know what its general nature is and what people mean when they talk about percents, formulas, theorems or prisms. Rrackenridge Senior School offers excellent, opportunity for obtaining both the practical and cultural value of mathematics. The course in business arithmetic gives practice in the mechanics of arithmetic, teaches calculations in mensuration, percentage, and its application to various business forms. Algebra has been called generalized arithmetic, as it possesses many of the same properties and functions. It requires the same accuracy of thinking as geometry but less reasoning. Algebra is a highly correlated subject, with the formula, graph, directed number, and equation forming the main body of the work. The principal value of plane geometry arises from the fact that it exercises the reasoning power more and claims less from the memory. It develops power rather than acquisition of facts. It teaches how to apply geometric laws and discover new ones. Solid geometry, required for entrance to engineering schools, is offered in Rrackenridge. The practical utility of trigonometry is great. It has a large number of genuine and interesting applications. It is so widely used in the exact sciences that it has been called the back-bone of applied mathematics. The study of trigonometry offers a good field for the training of students in accuracy and affords excellent practice in numerical calculations. Abbott Prey Lancaster Smith Cory K. James Norman Simmers Demonstratins; a problem under Miss Lancaster’s supervision.