Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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MR. JACK HOPKE teaches general science, chemistry. and the new course in senior science. He is also a sophomore homeroom sponsor and coach of junior high basketball and football. Mr. Hopke's outside interests are his church, his family, and gardening. MR. PAUL PRICE teaches general science, biology, and general math, and is the adviser to the Projectionist Club and a freshman sponsor. Mr. Price's hobbies are hunting, fishing, camping and reading. Science Links With Daily Living TRYING AN EXPERIMENT with a light bulb are science teachers Jack Hopke and Paul Price. This is life! So say Mr. Jack Hopke and Mr. Paul Price, our science teachers. EDNA PAULINE COBBLE, a dead cat. is dissected by Mr. Price and biology class students. Pictured are Figgins. Bishop, Bracey. Wallace. Mr. Price. Thompson, Clayton. Jones, and Grooms. General science gives an overview of the three major natural sciences and many different applications of science in daily life. In biology, an advanced course, the class studied all living organisms, both plant and animal. The cat, frog, and euglena are familiar to all biology students after two quarters of study. In chemistry the students learned what a vital part this science plays in life, in the home, on the farm and in industry. Projects included the blending of ingredients into shaving cream, lipstick, insect repellent and library glue. Senior science, or physics, is offered for those students interested in some phase of engineering. TESTING THEIR HOMEMADE shaving cream are chemists Trainor and Marlin as other class members. VanAusdall, Miller, Lauck. Lyell, J. Streete. and Jones pay close attention.

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MRS. THOMAS MOCK (right), teaches Enqlish I and III and journalism and is co-sponsor of the Pep Club and of the freshman class. Tiger Rag adviser, and literary adviser of the Cotton Blossom. Mrs. Mock's community interests include her church and the Business and Professional Women’s Club, and her hobbies are fly-fishing and reading. MRS. LOUISE PARKER (left), teaches speech and English I and is adviser to the Thespian Club and the Forensic Club and a cosponsor of the junior class. Mrs. Parker's community interests include her church, the Rebekah Lodge and the Theta Rho Girls' Club. Her hobbies are going to school and taking music. MRS. HOWARD CUNNINGHAM (center), teaches English II and IV and world problems and is co-sponsor of the S. A. C. and of the senior class. As a senior class sponsor, she directed the winning senior play at Play Night. Mrs. Cunningham's community interests are her church and P. E. O. and her hobby is flower gardening. English Department Adds Journalism Class This year the English department was enlarged to include a course in journalism, taught by Mrs. Tom Mock. The outstanding project of the new class was the publishing of the Tiger Rag, by-weekly mimeographed newspaper. The class also did the literary work on the Cotton Blossom and presented a radio program on the beginning and growth of journalism. The speech class had a full year as they studied play production, debate, and drama and attended student congress meetings and traveled to several schools viewing their plays. A radio program built around the Anglo-Saxon literature and times was a first quarter project of English IV. During the fourth quarter for a grueling period of six weeks, the same students worked on research papers. The fundamentals of grammar, literature and composition were taught in English I, II, and III. Spelling was also stressed in English I. SPEECH STUDENTS J. While. Walker. Carter. O. White. Hayden. Dugger and Ferrell study makeup in the hard school of experience. ENGLISH IV STUDENTS Streete. Christian. Jones. Lauck and Figqins comment on each others term papers.

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MISS MARY ELLEN HORNER, social studies instructor, congratulates Jerry Figgins who was honored as the outstanding social studies student in the senior class. Social Studies Students Learn By Doing Social studies aren't all studied out of a textbook, the students in civics, American history, world history, and American problems found this year. Panel discussions, interviews with community leaders, the first-hand study of county government through a visit to the county offices in the Court House, presenting panel discussions over KCRV and to local civic groups, holding a mock election and convention, daily discussion of current affairs, and the use of moving pictures and recordings - all these activities varied class procedure and made learning both easier and more fun. PRESENTING A PANEL DISCUSSION on the United Nations to the Woman's Club are American problems class members Woody. Hughes. Walker. Figgins. Clark. Adams and White. All freshmen, sophomores, and juniors as well as several seniors were enrolled in the eleven social studies classes taught by Mrs. Howard Cunningham, Mr. Thomas Mock, Mr. Joe Parkinson, Mr. John McGuire, and Miss Mary Ellen Horner. Miss Horner teaches American history, American problems and civics. She is also a sophomore sponsor and adviser to the Cotton Blossom Staff and the Photography Club. Her other interests are her church, fly fishing, photography and flower gardening. AMERICAN HISTORY student. Bill Collins examines transportation models which he and other class members made as projects. PARTICIPANTS in a mock presidential primary are American history students Brown, Hopke, Davis. Richardson and Mollett.