Cubberley High School - Totem Yearbook (Palo Alto, CA)

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. 13 is A T 1' .W 1 sag Mrs, Elena Baran, Mr. Richard Finch, Mrs. Olga Smith, Mrs. Alice jones, Mr. Ernest Pope, Miss Rachelle Larsson, Mr. Eugenio Gamez. Languages The language department has heen expanding by leaps and hounds. This year we acquired a course in Russian, two new teachers, and a Russian typef writer. Mr. Pope, a French teacher, returned after cycling and teaching in France and Germany. The ten new language hooths employ the aural' oral learning method of language teaching. Emphasis is shifted from reading and writing of the language to speaking and listening. Some language classes sampled the culture of their language as well as the grammar. Mr, Gamez made his annual trip with his third and fourth year classes to San Francisco to see Roherto Iglesias, a flamenco dancer. Miss Baran served Russian pastry at a tea. Russian classes learned Russian nursery rhymesg French classes read poetry, short novels, and playsg Spanish classes worked on comedies, poetry and third grade detecf tive stories, German classes read German songs and folk storiesg and Latin students, besides learning Latin, traced the origins of English words. The bicycle that traveled through Europe. , as Alt rlerz irons fi'i1m'i11.sV . '+.,,,,

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Front Row: Mrs. Dorothy Beerhohm, Mrs. Helen McEvoy, Mrs. Dale Leslie, Mrs. Janice Rowland, Miss Pauline Brown, Miss Florence Way, Miss Evelyn Cushing. Second Row: Mr. Robert Holloway, Mr. David Buck, Mr. Bernard Tanner, Mr. Paul Smith, Mr. Frank Ratlirl, Mr. Raymond bladwin, Mr. john Turner. . we 531,32 f Happy journalism students producing the CA'l'AMOl7N'I'. English The importance of order and justice, the challenge of war, the meaning of culture, the place of the inf dividual in society W- such were the ideas that Eng' lish students explored through study of literature. Students learned to analyze and organize their thoughts. They learned to express themselves through study of grammar, vocabulary, composition and se' mantics. Mr. Bucks drama students delved into the history of the theater, read plays, and analyzed the strucf tures of drama. To master stage techniques, they practiced body movements, pantomime, and speaking methods. In the second semester they put on one act plays at noon for student audiences. Mrs. McEvoy's puhlic speaking students gained experience in oral expression hy making speeches, by conducting meetings, hy participating on panels, and by leading group discussions. Young journalists under the tutelage of Mr. Hollof way learned to write, edit, and print school news for the CATAMoUNT. Growing literary interest was indif cated by the appearance of FOLIO I. The Drama students in their first publicity shot.

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Front Row: Miss Shirley Wocmdcox, Miss Alice Larsen. Second Row: Mr. Williani Hutchinson, Mr. Harry Butterneld, Mr. Robert Starkey, Mr. Don Granholm, Mr. George Millar, Mr. Roy Hurst, Mr. Clyde Parrish. Physics students watch a pulse travel down an elongated slinky. , . , What Johnny thought was HZQ was HZSO4. cience Department The return of Mr. Hutchinson and Mr. Parrish and the arrival of Miss Vxfoodcox augmented the ranks of the science department. An advanced chemistry course was initiated this year in which a small class of senior science students worked with a college text. Those who passed an advanced placement test at the end of the course received college credit. The revised physics courses this year were taught hy Mr. Butterfield and used a textbook planned hy the Physical Science Committee, a group of outstandf ing physics teachers and professors from all over the United States. These hooks were designed to encourf age the students to draw conclusions from their own experimentation and observation, Photography students learned to take, develop, enlarge, and reduce pictures and studied composition and the mechanics of cameras.