Curtis Junior High School - Profile Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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Special Education Special Education, taught by Mrs. Whitaker and Mrs. Jarrett, has many objectives. They help the students make a satisfactory adjustment to the world around them, and also teach the basic skills. The main thing that is taught is behavior, consisting of 7 , JARRETT, DOLORES J' l I W 'X '- 'a ' WHITAKER, Loxs promptrness, pride in the There are classes. courtesy, the completion of a task started, and accomplishments. Job skills are also taught. seventh, eighth, and ninth graders in these Mr. jones' Seventh Grade Industrial Arts Class. EMMETT, J. SIDNEY JOACHIMS, DONALD JONES, JOHN TEMMING, PAUL Industrial Art, also known as Shop, is a course that teaches boys to work with their hands. Classes in Shop are for all grades. The boys mal-cc items to use around their homes- lamps, tool boxes, cedar chests, Sugar scoops, etc. To make these articles, both hand and power tools are used. Shop also helps the students to learn a lifetime skill. Industrial Arts WW , , .J ,,.. .. ,,.i?'f,x1 i Q, '32 1' ' ur .. .93 V. . 1 .Q - 1 ,, .- 5'-Q-,A If '3?'l!'- , . N' H, MIS. H Si 1 gg ' A' . it ,r 0 1, f In x -H v , if tif 3 at , Q K, 4 s f ' 1' ' .si , ,L . , mv 1 1 qi., -.pw 12

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Nix' '. ii 3 t -L, ' 25 ii-:Q f 1 'ee M 'ik f E 'x 1 4559 5' QI it 1. M- -gr ,5 Q 3 wb, t 8 I 4 R . I. I I an I , . .l X-iff' em' A J 'Eg A I :fl A ie i Y. Music Our instrumental music director at Curtis is Mr. Danders, who dir- ects the orchestra, symphonic, concert :uid stage bands along with a percussion ensemble of eighth graders. The students taking vocal music are divided among three teachers, Mr. Clemnients, Mr. Craven, and Mr. Jones. These classes take part in the city-wide festival and secondary festival. Thecgurpose of their music is to tea students to use their singing voices and to sing musically. cusrvnvuzurs, sTEPHeN CRAVEN, EVERETT DANDERS, DENNIS JONES, DAVID N is Q I, Mr. Cleniments Teaching His Eighth Grade Class Students who enroll in typing for the coming year will be commit- ting themselves to leaming all of the keys of the typewriter. The 533355 Special Services . f 1G D Fi ri , ' ,fc -Q51 3 1.1, 'sl' fl 2.1 y i, G5,2,a.,.:2S5Qra I .:'.. 4 , 4' ' I , if .sy Ziff U i ' F IEWIS , PAT RIC IA Library Clerk LIPPOLDT , KENNETH Librarian HILL, MARY Nurse RANDLE, WILLIAM Speech Therapist Il main purpose of leaming these is that the students can use thc type- writer for notes, letters, temm papers, and many other uses. 'Es' 4 MEIANDER, LAURA . I MCXDN, DELORES

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'f Er Vlvrxaxi Q 1 1 r x If vin s. ', , ff Q ' r,'U'3 'l' . 3 ' A ' BAKER, RU'1'1-LANN , ' . Ak , ,' . , ' MCPHIERSON, MARY JO : H f A - Q NM V, R .A ' L ' ' ROTHFELDER, ALVIN g TERRY, NORMAN ,, ,. -MEET Art There are four teachers in the Art Department of Curtis, with Miss Mc- Pherson at thehead. For the first time, Art is being offered to all three grades. Art is offered to the ninth grade on the assumption that they intend to do some- thing with art later in life. Art on the level of seventh and eighth grade is offered in hopes of giving the student a knowledge and understanding of con- ception, coordination, and the use of their Own imagination. - . I- Reading Reading Development and Improve- nient help the students to learn to read as well as they possibly can. Reading Development is for the students who do not read as well as they should, while Reading Improvement is for readers who enroll for speed and better comprehensicm, and so improve in other subjects. There are 210 Students enrolled in the course with two teachers, Mr. Robin- son and Mr. Pringle. 1 . W .sr- Spanish Mrs. McCarrier, the Spanish teacher at Curtis, feels that the Spanish classes help prepare the students for other for- eign languages that they might take later in high school, This year, her second year ninth grade class partici- pated in a contest at WSU, and in the spring the 8th and 9th graders partici- pated in a National Spanish contest. :X 1' -' Swv ' 971 ' . , ' 1 r. , Qf W' PRINGLE, B.F , . .far-sl , 'V ' 19 1 'AV-.' .1 ROBINSON, JOHN MCCARRIER, WANDA A . . .t ,M to ' 1 v r ' ,. 'VV ,, 1. ,v j- i. ,R tif? ' l3 ., .,. . . ,