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

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Math Students Learn Basic Science Since mathematics is used in everyday life, our four mathematics units are an important part of our curriculum. This year Miss Lena Walk and Mr. Paul Price instructed students in qeneral math, Algebra I, plane geometry. Algebra II, and trigonometry. General math students learned the simple principles of arithmetic, informal geometry, Algebra, graphs, charts, and numerical trigonometry. Algebra I and II are taught because they are the shorthand methods for solving problems and provide a background for higher math. Geometry and trigonometry are taught as practical tools for academic and engineering math fields. MISS LENA WALK Miss Walk teaches Algebra I. Algebra II. plane geometry general mathematics, and trigonometry and is a co-sponsor of the senior class. Her outside interests are the Korean war orphan whom she supports through the Christian Children's Fund and her African violets. GEOMETRY STUDENTS are working on units which apply geometry to their field of interest. Pictured are Britton. Fig-gins. Davis. Snow. Coleman. M. Berry, Gortner. Mollett and Jones. IN TRIGONOMETRY class. Jim Southern explains a problem to Jim Leslie while oth »r class members J. Streete, T. Streete, Johnson. Jones. Figgins look on.

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 WRITER KEYBOA K Commerce Department Adds Secretarial Practice Commercial courses were added to the high school curriculum because parents began to say, Why not teach typing and shorthand in the high school and save us the expense and worry of sending our sons and daughters to business school? Long since the vocational side of the picture has changed and students now take commercial courses for their own personal use. However, C. H. S. is proud of her many graduates who, without further business training, successfully have held jobs, have become accountants, executives, secretaries, owners of businesses, typists, and are filling their niches in the business world of our town as well as other communities. MR. REDMAN DUNHAM MISS BONNIE FEARS Mr. Dunham teaches beginning typing, bookkeepinq. business English, and business law. He is bookkeeper lor the hiqh school athletic fund, and a co-sponsor ol the senior class. As every C. H. S. student knows, his hobby is his birthday book of C. H. S. students and friends • and fightin chickens. This year the commercial department included courses in bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, general business, business law, business English, and a new course, secretarial practice. The department had two instructors, Mr. Redman Dunham, who has headed the commercial department since 1928, and Miss Bonnie Fears, who was employed to meet the ever increasing student enrollment in commercial classes. WORKING at the new electric adding machine is Janie Kindred. Other bookkeeping students pictured are Hedge. Hicks and Lay. Miss Fears teaches shorthand, general business, typing and secretarial practice, and is a co-sponsor of the junior class and Honor Society. Her hobbies are crocheting, sewing, and collecting earrings. BUSY waxing, dusting, and cleaning typewriters as a part of their office training are secretarial practice class mem bers Ball. Danley. Greer and Thompson.

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MR. JOHN McGUIRE, right, tenches classes in civics, health and physical education, and is head football coach and assistant coach of track. He is also an adviser to a sophomore homeroom and to the Varsity C Club. His hobbies are fishing, horseback riding, and travel. MR. JOE PARKINSON, left, teaches classes in civics, driver education and physical education, and coaches basketball. During the summer months, he will continue to work with young people as summer playground director. Mr. Parkinson's hobbies are gardening and playing ball. Drivers Training Is New in C. H. S. This year something new was added to the curriculum in the way of practical knowledge, drivers training. The course, taught by Mr. Parkinson, involved learning the laws of the road, proper driving habits, coordination and a healthy attitude toward the other fellow's rights on the road. The new addition to boys' physical education this year was weight lifting, started because the coaches thought it might help keep the athletes in shape after their particular sports had stopped. P. E. continued this year to include the regular team sports such as softball, soccer, basketball, ping-pong, croquet, tennis, archery, kickball, badminton and volleyball. The classes also did calisthenics and twice yearly tests were given to measure our improvement in this field.