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

Page 26 text:

xi N7 I A I IX4 ag Jm F A c u L T Y 2: LIBRARY AND OFFICES MISS ELEANOR BENNETT Library Teacher MISS ELIZABETH FRALEY Librarian MRS. GERALDINE MATTHEWS Assistant Librarian MISS MARGUERITE HIGGINS Attendance MISS EDITH BRINKMAN Registrar MISS LOUISE PHILLIPS Secretary MISS MARY LOUISE RIEGEL Clerk MATHEMATICS MR. EDWIN ALSUP MRS. IULIA BALL MR. W. L. CORY MISS MISS MISS EMMA FREY KATE IAMES LOUISE LANCASTER MRS, GRACE NORMAN MISS STELLA Q. SMITH MRS. MYRRL SUMMERS l ictured MARY BURKI-IOLDER AGNES MORGAN Not p MISS MISS her assistant to direct With a tull-time teacher, trained in library science, and a librarian and students in their library assignments, the library has become the central workshop ot Brackenridge. About forty student assistants help in the routine Work ot the library. The main ottice force consisting ot a registrar, secretary, clerk and student assistants, is kept busy at various tasks. Besides checking the daily attendance, grades must be recorded, reports com- piled, credits checked, and a multitude of routine duties attended to. In the mathematics department a course in business arithmetic gives practice in the mechanics of arithmetic, teaches calculation in mensuration, percentage, and its application to various business forms. The formula, graph, directed number, and equation form the main body ot the Work in algebra. Geometry teaches how to apply geometric laws and discover new ones. Trigonometry otters good training in accuracy in numerical calculation. Page 22

Page 25 text:

P K . Y , FX ' ' - -. '1' x,4 'f f-'xfelf Y 5 yy y A ,gi ENOS GARY Principal ROY R. KAY Vice Principal VIOLA MGORE Dean B an fi ---9

Page 27 text:

I xr Q2 JEL: K -JK , F A c u L T Y 1 3 COMMERCIAL MISS VIRGINIA CHILDRESS MRS. WILLIE LEE DAHL MR. GEORGE DAVIS MISS LORA GOODWIN MRS. THEO ITZ MISS IRMA GRACE IOHNSTON MISS EFFIE LEWIS MRS. ZORA MELTON MISS LAURA STEPHENS PHYSICAL EDUCATION MR. MANOR PUCKETT MR. BARLOW IRWIN MR. ALFRED LEHMBERG MR. GATEWOOD NEWBERRY I I MISS MARTHA DICKEY I MISS ELIZABETH MARTIN I MISS IOHNNY LOU LYLES 5 Y The Commercial Department offers eight courses: shorthand, typewriting, and bookkeeping, comp- tometry, business English, commercial arithmetic, geography and law. Advanced students are assigned as typists to members of the faculty, and graduates often enter business offices without further training. The fundamental principles of law as applied to business transactions are taught in the law courses, and in business English the student is given a knowledge of terms and familiarity With the construction of business letters. Bookkeeping and office training fit the student for a position as bookkeeper, or secretary, in a small business office. The department of Physical Education strives to develop leadership, sportsmanship, personal and group responsibility, varied recreational interests, wise use of leisure time and above all, physical efficiency. Each student must, by state law, enroll in this department for three year's Work. Brack- enridge is a member of the Texas University Interscholastic League. Page 23