Dallas High School - Dragon Yearbook (Dallas, OR)

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1. Sean Morgan and prep English teacher Sal Passantino discuss Sean’s grade on a unit test. 2. Pat Baker looks up from the text in her fantasy class. 3. Speech teacher Glenn Knight listens to a round of debate. 4. College Writing instructor, Jim Fairchild checks DeWayne Barber’s assignment. while Tim Wheeler and Loren Ritz watch the next row. 3 Language Arts •IS

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Language Arts Preparatory English Added As did many departments, the language arts program under went several changes in the transition to a four year high school. Adding on one new class, preperatory English was a necessity. (This class is a semester required course for freshman, designed to enhance clear effective writing, problems in grammar, and sentence structure and spelling.) The language arts department also had two teachers added to the staff. Veteran high school teacher Sal Passantino was assigned several classes of preparatory English and newcomer from La-Creole, Loren Warner was given several speech fundamentals courses (The beginning course in speech) and Comprehensive English I (The one class which reviews all basic parts of English.) “I’ve notice that more people have been getting away from the “Mickey Mouse” type of classes and are taking classes that will help them in college”, stated language arts department head, Jim Fairchild. “As an example about 50% of all seniors have taken the college writing course which is a college credited class given through Chemeketa Community College. Another change involved the newspaper production class. Yearbook advisor Bob Schiopen took on the responsibility for both the Dragon yearbook and the Dragon Tales newspaper. With increased enrollment in these classes and in theatre classes, as well, the language arts program continued strong. 4 V ' !' ,s, 1 ■ ■ vv Bfl 1. Prep English teacher Loren Warner goes over his lecture notes for a presentation over Where The Red Fern Grows . 2.Spanish teacher Ken Hankland discusses place names with his Spanish class. 3. Taking a break between drama classes is Corby Ward, director. 4. Yvonne Martin, sophomore shows her best friend to Comp. English teacher, Maureen Stallard. 4 12 • Language Arts

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Mathematics Fundamentals Stressed Of the twenty-eight courses offered in the math area a few courses have experienced a big increase in the enrollment of students, a factor which has affected all classes and subjects. Of special note is the dramatic increase in computer-related classes and general math to meet the requirement for frosh. Teachers added to the high school staff from LaCreole, included Don Brostrom, Dick Fobert, and Paula Lockhart. Staff changes in the department made it necessary for them to teach in different rooms, shift between class periods, and teach courses that have not been taught before. The fundamentals of math were stressed in all classes and students seemed to be more self-motivated, over past years. l 1. Jack Marshall works hard on his assignment in general math. 2. Mr. Paul Olliff helps some girls with an Algebra I problems. 3. Mr. Bob Kenyon shows Christy Domaschofsky how he treats students when they miss a geometry problem. Don Morris catch up on his homework in General math; Russ Geddes, Dawn Smith and Mark Stauffer visit. 14 • Mathematics