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

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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.

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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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Mrs, Paula Olinger, Mr. Robert Starkey, Mrs Alexandra Forsythe Mrs Sally Htrriot Mr Roy Hurst, Mr. Robert Stone. Not shown Miss Adene Hurst ath Boolean algebra, rubbersheet geometry, googols, i's and pi'sf Mrs. l'Ierriot's juniors did weekly individual library research and uncovered intriguing mathematical facts. Although the usual basic math was covered, the subject was presented differently than in previous years. Textbooks devised by the School Mathematics Study Group were used, The new approach treated math as a dynamic, expanding field and gave students insight into mathematical concepts while developing fundamental skills. Math students had the chance to work with the school's twenty Monroe calculators and found much of their problemfsolving eased. Many students attended a mathematical assembly in which a lecture on Transfinite Ordinalsv was given by Professor Finn of Stanford. If X equals the number of homework papers passed in . . .