Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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Two DE classroom views: Left, Dottie Turner, Nancy Coulter, Jan Ashby and Mary Bowers in panel discussion. Right: Harold Neale, Ben VeaNueva, Kenneth Stout, and Rogers Carleton, with Marion Dean. lower right, take notes on Mr. Bronstad. Left: The DE classes pitch in and help with the packaging and distribution of 1956 Xmas seals at the welfare office. Right: Kathy Brown demonstrates that money changers are welcomed in some places. Her job: open it without the bellls ringing! Distributive Education, taught and supervised at Denton High School by Homer Bronstad, is a new concept in education. Students attend regular high school classes half of each day, then go to jobs which they either obtained for themselves, or which were gotten for them through the pirogram. Local businessmen who participate in the DE program have nothing but high praise for the kind of employees furnished to them from the classes. Below, Homer Bronstad, director of the program, passes out materials to DE students Mary Bowers, Gerald Coggeshall, Rocky Montgomery. I C I I

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' 'aw The Commercial Arts faculty is 'lmannedl' by Mrs. Lucille Ray, Mrs. Judy Hudson, Mrs. Cecile McKelvey and Mrs. Virginia Moore. These good ladies teach a variety of subjects to the neophyte business men and women, including typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, and general business methods. Here they're pictured in an after-school session at which student needs and problems are discussed, as well as teaching problems. Two Commercial Arts mob scenes - with student teacher Johnson presiding in the left- hand view, which is a shorthand class. At right is a class in judo where students are taught to hold down desk jobs. Jerry O'Rear recoils in fright over the copy confronting him in typing. Shirley Vaughn, Mrs. Ray, Eddie Savage and Willena Meeker pretend not to notice. Right: Mrs. Spears substitutes in shorthand.

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O l Good drivers are born-then perfected with good training. Coach Vern Lane stepped into the Driver Education slot this year, replacing Doyle Chrisman, who was kicked upstairs into the principal's job over at Sam Houston Elementary. Above, Lane demonstrates on a scale-model intersection the difficulties you can get into for Frances Blankenship, Retha Christopher, Larry Harn and Nolan Bell. This is one of many Hdry runw techniques which Lane, who doubles in brass as basketball mentor and HE instructor. Two other kinds of dry run techniques to better driving are demonstrated by Paul Rippe, Joy Gail Clearman, Nancy Chambers, Eva .lane Wright, and Lloyd Justus. At last, we get behind the wheel of that fire engine red '57 Ford Bill Utter sent over. About to take to the highway are Imogene Owens, Billie Harvill, Barbara Carter, Lenonia Starr and Mr. Lane. Right: Now that we're back, let's inspect the damage.