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

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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.

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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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MR. HARRY. DARR, instructor in industrial arts, is also track coach and assistant football coach. Mr. Darr's vocation is also his avocation, for his out-of-school interests are woodworking and sports. He is active in the work of his church and is an ardent fisherman. Industrial Arts Qives Diversified Training A sheet metal machine was the new addition this year to the ever-expanding industrial arts department of our high school. COACH HARRY DARR, shop instructor, helps Frankie Nelson read his blueprint. Washing their prints are Michie, Keeton. Edgerton. Johnson and Watkins. TEMPERING METAL at the forge are Curtis James and Larry McCoy. Working at the acetylene welder is Darrell Dugger. WORKING ON WOOD WORKING projects are shop students King. Tate. Swiggart. Sawyer and Wood. This year, as in previous years, the boys taking shop exhibited their projects - furniture, metal work, lamps, boats, and architectural drawings - at Open House. Among the larger projects completed by these students were the pouring of the concrete for the new cinder track and making four work benches and twenty-four drafting tables for the shop. Industrial arts courses, taught by Mr. Darr, only instructor, are general shop, wood and metal work, electricity, welding, lathe work, advanced wood working, mechanical and architectural drawing and boat building.