Bristol High School - Torch Yearbook (Bristol, CT)

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Home Economics guides future homemukers. Left to right: Miss Ruth Whipple, Mrs. Albertina Discenza, and Miss Dorothy Vail. The Home Economics Department teaches the art of Homemaking, a most useful subject. In addition to sewing and cooking, our girls learn such things as how to manage a home efficiently and economically. Everyone knows that Miss Whipple demonstrates the proper way to sew as A. Milton L. Eisenhauer, C. Zacek, B. Sitka, and P. West observe. the Bristol High girls are now master cooks from the odors that come drifting out of the cooking rooms. Our girls really enjoy this very practical subject, and they appreciate working with the patient, understanding staff of Home Economics teachers. S. Nemeth, C. Achille, and S. Chase whip up something delicious in Homemaking III.

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Business prepares us for secretarial careers. Standing left to right: Mr. Thomas Doyle, Mr. Daniel Colby, Mr. Ralph Bowen, Mr. James Roche. Seated left to right: Miss Chris- Mrs. Goodwin checks Commercial Arithmetic problems for M Kasper. tina Reid, Miss Edwina Lucas, Miss Lois Courey, Mrs. Margaret Miles, Mrs. Eloise Goodwin, Mrs. Mildred Johnson. The Business Department generally offers courses to fffm' those students who are preparing to start work immediately after graduation from high school. However, some of its courses, such as typing, are sampled by students in the college curriculum, too. Business subjects usually aim to develop special skills, such as stenography or bookkeeping. If you have never taken a business course, you might think that such subjects would be uninteresting, but this could never happen with the splendid staff of teachers we have in our Business Department. B. Drzewiecki and P. Armstrong mimeograph in Office Practice.

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Languages develop an interest in other lands. Seated left to right: Miss Susanna Donahue, Miss Doris Brennan, Josephine Carroccia, Miss Fleurette Fradetteg Standing: Mr. Ralph Mr. john Reardon, Mr. Walter Petke, Miss Loretta Teevan, Miss Nestico, Mr. Mark Angers. Mr. Nestico instructs Denise Lemieux in French pronunciation while Dick Day's interests lie elsewhere. Most students are familiar with our Language Depart- ment which oflers courses in French, German, Spanish, and Latin, In addition to teaching grammar, this depart- ment aims to give the student an understanding of the customs, people, and music of the country where the language is or was spoken. Many times the teacher will take a few minutes out to teach the class a song - a pleas- ing break in the day. The teachers of the Language Depart- ment are a group BHS students truly like and appreciate. Bertha Przygocki and Celia Hichwa post a notice of the next Spanish Club meeting in Spanish class.