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

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Miss Phyllis Leveen, Miss Lora Lee Dockstader, Miss Darlene Strange, and Mrs. Mary Ann Boyd, Girls' Physical Education The girls' recreational leadership class learned how to ofliciate sports, make paperfbag puppets, create cloth pictures, and tell stories. At elemenf tary schools they taught games and folk dancing. To plan a noon recreation program for next year, they conducted studies and observed other schools. In gym classes girls participated in hockey, body mechanics, basketball, tennis, archery, badminton, golf, volleyball, and softball. junior girls had a unit on modern dance, and presented their more interesting creations in an allfgirl assembly. Modern dance students prepare their presentation for the allfgirl assembly Mr. Robert jones, Mr. Bud Presley, Mr. Robert Bow, and Mr. George Hurley. Boys' Physical Education The boys' recreational leadership class, taught by Mr. Bow, supervised games at St. Ignatius School and also assisted in teach' ing the block sophomore gym classes. Boys' physical education classes had their usual seasons of football, tennis, basketball, track, and baseball. Wrurk has begun on the elbow' shaped pool which next year's classes will use. i 85

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,.r Mr. Pete Ida, Mrs. Carol Graham, Miss Shirley Ann Currie, Miss Emily Girault, Mrs, Mary Paulsen, Mr, joseph Cronin. Testing reflexes and reaction time. ocial tudies The ranks of the history department swelled this year, and some old courses were revitalized. Miss Girault, five years a teacher in Germany, Mr. Roherts, and Mrs. Paulsen, oneftime researcher for Time magazine, joined the department. Ten dozen sophomores took a comhination European History and Sophomore Goals course in a unique seven period schedule -- in six hours. An advanced standing American History was offered to some sophomores. Senior problems classes studied contemporary American his- tory, psychology and family relations, communism, and sociology. Among the teachers for this course were European travelers Miss Currie and Miss Scholtz. Speaker Peter Grothe, Russian traveler, and the excellent Twentieth Century film series on current U.S. and World history enlivened the curriculum. Meanwhile, tenth graders explored the mysteries of the rnotorcar through films and visits to the auto shop. As spring wore on, students worried about the Democratic aspirants for the july nomination and debated the merits of their favorite candidates. Mr. john Lewis, Miss Gretchen Scholtz, Mr. Hamlin Smith, Mr. Harold Roberts.

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is s'5'1 ----1-v COUNSELORS: Miss Frances Could, Mr. William Hutchinson, Miss Phyllis Leveen Mr. Frank Ratliff, Miss Maxine DuCoty, Mr. George Millar, Mr. john Lewis 1 l all H5222 Our academic life is planned with the help of counselors and re corded in the files of clerks and secretaries Above our cheerful deans Miss Lucile Hofstra and Mr Gordon Parsons take time out from their adm1n1strat1ve duties to pose in the student hall Cubberley s counselors stood ready to advise students about sched ules, courses and mdivldual problems Students bombarded the senior counselors Miss DuCoty and Mr Mlllan with questions about college recommendat1ons scholarships and test results Nimble fingered Mrs Bain maintained serenity m1dst the clamor of parental calls and student requests for appointments Counselors typist, processor of their call slips and librarian of college catalogues Mrs. Bain is indispensible at Cubberley Nurse Mrs Miller here confers with former junior Red Cross oili cer Gail Mather Mrs Miller has been the active sponsor of Future Medical Associates for two years Mrs. Allen keeper of student records and Mrs Duncan attend ance clerk scrutinize the records of the ever shiftlng student body to see who was here that day