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

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STUDENT ASSISTANTS ATTENDANCE OFFICE The attendance office is the clearing house for all problems relative to student attendance. An accurate record of all absentees and tardies are kept, and regular excuses, special excuses, admit to class slips, and permanent passes are issued to students from this office. The attendance office is also required to make a monthly report to the Board of Education concerning attendance. Top Row. left to right: Paplaczyk. Fuller, McGee, Waitz, Vaughn, Black, Monroe. Third Row: Jones, Caruthers Schroeder, Sexton, Cosgrove. Ault. Housden, Wolf, Burge. Gooch. Schlutz. Silver. Minckner. Ingenhuett. Second Row: Zirkel, Meadows, Gray, Buss, Wolff, Skelton, Bannister, Metzger, Benesh, Albrecht, Rossman, Smith, Jolliffe. First Row: Richie, Baylor, Nissenbaum, Dossey, Schnell, Heaslett, Meyer, Furh-mann, Humble, Tonkin, Bryan, Scott. BRACKENRIDGE AT WORK Because mathematics is the foundation of all sciences and because it enters into every walk of life, it is desirous that pupils should know what its general nature is and what people mean when they talk about per cents, formulas, theorems, or prisms. Four years of algebra, plain and solid geometry, and trigonomentry are offered. Brackenridge offers excellent opportunity for obtaining both the practical and cultural value of mathematics. A course in business arithmetic gives practice in the mechanics in arithmetic, teaches calculation in mensuration, percentage, and its application to various business forms. The formula, graph, directed number, and equation form the main body of the work in algebra. Geometry develops power rather than acquisition of facts, and exercises the reasoning power and claims less from the memory. It teaches how to apply geometric laws and discover new ones. Trigonometry has a practical value and offers good training in accuracy and affords excellent practice in numerical calculation. The commercial department has always been second in number of pupils enrolled, the English department only registering a larger number. The scholastic standing of the graduates of this department is equal to that of any other group in school. Eighteen courses are offered: two years each in shorthand, typewriting, bookkeeping; one year in comptometry; one term each in business English, arithmetic, geography, and law. Graduates of the stenographic division begin work in business offices without further training. Advanced students get experience and render service to the school by acting as secretaries for teachers and school officials. The two-year bookkeeping course prepares the student to be a bookeeper for a small business. Page 26

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STUDENT ASSISTANTS DEAN'S OFFICE Student assistants in the dean's office attend to much of the routine work, such as answering the telephone, filing, carrying messages, making changes on program cards, or making new programs after the dean has interviewed the pupil. The benefits derived by the assistants are a closer acquaintance with the work of the school and experience in office work. Top Row. left lo right: Wenterholf, Garrett. Henderson, Seidemann. Schulze. Second Row: Patterson, Braunstein, Gehlert Bannister, West, Walsh, Dillon. Bottom Row: roster, Rudi Patterson Sch- midt, Petriny, Johnson. BRACKENRIDGE AT WORK The History Department includes two courses each in World History, American History, and English History; two in civics, and one in economics. Besides acquainting the students with the facts of history, the courses aim to make of him a broaderminded and better citizen of his city, state, nation, and world. Current events play an important part in most classes as this gives the student an opportunity to study history in the making. The foreign languages offered in Brackenridge are Spanish, Latin, and Italian. Because of San Antonio's Mexican population, Spanish has practical as well as cultural value. Four years of Spanish are offered. German students not only learn to read and speak the language but have an excellent opportunity to learn to write and put it into practical use in their publication, Hueben und Drueben . Various activities including the Saturnalia, impress upon the Latin students the Roman customs and contributions to culture. Italian was offered for the first time this year. In the science department, the student finds opportunity to study human, animal, and plant life, the composition of matter, and the forces of inanimate nature. Chemistry offers splendid opportunities to acquire proficency in laboratory technique, while physics introduces the student to the behavior of electricity, heat and various other forces. Botany opens up the wonders of the plant kingdom. Flowers are classified and displayed and considerable experimental work is done with seeds. In biology, the student is introduced to the structure, behavior, adaptations, and life functions of living things. Physiology gives a knowledge of the human body with emphasis on the maintenance of good health. Page So

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STUDENT ASSISTANTS LIBRARY About forty helpers are selected each term by the librarian from names submitted. They must be dependable, accurate, speedy, and courteous, and be able to give up their study period for this work. Their work consists of such routine duties as: charging and checking books, getting reserve books, keeping the desk, filing, clipping and pasting usable material from magazines. Top Row, left to right: Palmer, Scott, Wilson, Graf Layton. Third Row: Riggs, Barnes. Berry. Coryell, Wallace, Hornbeak. Second Row Blount, Henderson, Bowen, Patterson, Baylor, McClenney, loiliffe. Bottom Row: Epstein, Alberts, Apezteguia, Willmann, Karin. Lindholm. BRACKENRIDGE AT WORK The Practical Arts in Brackenridge include home economics, mechanical drawing, architectural drawing, and free-hand lettering. The home economics courses do more than teach the girls to cook and sew. About two-fifths of the time is spent on cooking and sewing; the other three-fifths is devoted to the study of worthy home membership, character training, citizenship, the financial problem of feeding and clothing a family, designing and selecting clothing, textile study, and leisure time problems. Interior decoration teaches the girl to plan and furnish a home. Since the school provides the instruments for mechanical drawing, this training has been made available for more students. Lettering students have done pen lettering for the library and English department and have also made numerous posters for school affairs. Art and music comprise the fine arts in our school. The art department includes in its courses sketching, design, poster work, soap sculpture and clay modeling, still life, landscape and figure drawing. A special class of four or five students meets daily with the art sponsor of the annual and are responsible for all the art work in the annual. The courses offered in music include chorus, theory, harmony, and orchestra. Theory trains students to sight-singing and rhythm; harmony is more advanced, giving a foundation for composition. The orchestra plays for various occasions and is a frequent winner in contests. This department endeavors to discover and encourage talent in every phase of music. Three chorus classes were added to the curriculum this year. Many interesting musical features are presented at our assemblies and at school entertainments because of the work done by chorus students. Page 27