De Anza Middle School - La Ventura de Anza Yearbook (Ventura, CA)

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Demetrio Barrios Fred Beall Terry Beall Jeff Beckel Christina Beckman Julie Begg Gregory Bennett Caren Benoit Julie Betker Carolyn Biggers Matt Blanco Leanne Blanks Kathy Bohannon Vicki Bomar Janice Bopp Kenny Borron Bill Bowkett Louisa Bringas Anthony Brizuela Victor Brizuela Denise Brockus Jeff Brown Jennifer Brown Mike Brown Ronnie Brown Tyler Brown Donnie Bullard Steven Burdette Denise Burniston Phyllis Burns Nona Byers Kenny Byrd Debra Campbell Noreen Campos Jodi Cantrell Cindy Caron Steven Carr Morris Carroll Bennie Carter Susie Casiano Lisa Castillo Henry Castro Sally Castro Conrad Chavez Billy Churchill 70 Bridging the A bridge was placed this year be- tween the old system and the new . It's called pontoon. Pupils, teachers, and aides operate on an entirely different time schedule for a part of the day. Three of our best teachers, Mr . rranham, Mrs. McKown, and Mrs. Sandall, who really knew what they were doing and believe in classroom control, were working in this area . A few surveyed students felt they got much more from the pontoon than what is usually offered in the regular classroom . More individual attention was made possible by the teachers working togeth- er, For example Mrs. Sandall can show a world geography film to the entire 90 students at one time rather than three showings to small groups - leaving the other two teachers and aides free to work with the remaining students indivi- dually. The science teacher, Mr. Branham, doesn't have to set up the lab three

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M How to Print a Christmas Card Pictured above is Mr. Jennings showing his seventh grade Graphic Arts Class a Christmas card printed from a linoleurn block. Graphic Arts is a seventh grade class where boys learn the basic skills of drafting. There are fourteen required projects in the seventh grade, Mr. Leo Jennings has been teaching here at De Anza ever since the school opened in 1957 . tn-an A JNX Randy Abel A tsl, Frances Antillon I Seven th. Graders Richard Arbizu , t, 'K Kimberly Arellanes Dean Atwood Marla Austin Micheal Avery Jeanie Bagley Jody Baker Kenneth Baker gii, in Jim Ballantine A ' Steven Bancroft -H A Bobby Barnes 4 2 Q tl Ben Barraza i N Q 'R K X X X N Nancy Barretto 69

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Gap This year one of De Anza's English teachers times as before. But one setting is suffi- cient with the other teachers and aides on hand to help students that need it. Mrs. McKnown, head of De Anza's English department, had help grading the English assignments from the teach- er's aides. Mrs. Chris Vasquez was the pontoon aide at the beginning ofthe year, and later in the year this job went to Mrs. Barbara Jones, a fully creden- tialed teacher. The pontoon also includes combined field trips, better student-teacher rela- tionship and more opportunity to do re- search under adult guidance. Pupils began to see how learning in another area such as world geography was relat- ed to science, science related to Eng- lish, and English related to world geog- raphy. Yes, indeed the bridge has been built, the pontoons of wartime had their place but were only temporary. We hope that the new system of pontoon teaching is here to stay. Mrs. McKown 'WI-up ...ij-3, Miss Lorraine Culver became Mrs. Frank San dall. They were married on November ll and honeymooned over Christmas Vacation They went to their mountain cabin at Shav er Lake. krgr I f ,.,. A J V4 ii ' 4 ' . ,t ' ' Mrs. Sandall Mr , Branharn