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

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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

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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 SCHOOL TREASURY Under the supervision of Miss Lora Goodwin, treasurer of Brackenridge High School, the Student Office Assistants keep complete financial records for over ten thousand dollars handled for the two publications, fifteen departments, twenty - three clubs, three classes, and seventeen special funds. Outstanding pupils in the Commercial Department arc chosen for this work. Back Row, left to right: Elsie Schmidt. Tino Human, Hazel Lewis, Hetty Jean Bain. Front Row: Janice Hudson, Hazel Grimm Florence Tedford. BRACKENRIDGE AT WORK The Department of Speech offers public speaking, debate, extempore-speaking and dramatics. Public speaking aims to give experience in the organization and delivery of original speeches, a more thorough development in the ability to read and interpret literature, to have self-assurance, better diction, and more pleasing voices. Public speaking is a prerequisite for dramatics, debate, and extempore-speaking. This enables pupils to get some drill in voice, diction and pantomime, before taking one of the more advanced courses. Extempore-speaking is the course from which come our extempore contestants for the Inter Scholastic League. Some public speaking classes are conducted as half-time subjects, alternating with Physical Education. Other classes are on the full time basis, enabling all students to enroll for a speech course if they so desire. The dramatic department aims to give each member a polish in diction, to overcome all self-consciousness, and to offer a new field for enjoyment. In fall, the department sponsors a series of plays called ' The Purple Parade, and again after Christmas at the close of the first term another series of plays called The January Jubilee is given. The money derived from these plays is used to provide equipment for the department, and to help generally in providing for things for which there is no regular school fund. Debate is a favorite subject in Brackenridge, due to the successful record of our debate teams, and because a number of debaters trained at Brackenridge have made the University of Texas debate teams. For as many as ten successive years Brackenridge is city championship in debate. Page ?S