Denton High School - Bronco Yearbook (Denton, TX)

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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.

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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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This is a workable situation. And Ann Harris, Mike Smith. Nana Pearce. ,ludy Colwell and Lewis Bush prove to Miss Mc- Elroy it isn't. Right: Standing on the corner. watching all the girls go hy. Patsy Smith. Jane Bell, Sandy Trickey. show that you can't let up a minute when those English assignments are due. These two unrehearsed. unposed shots de- pict a little noon-hour cramming in which the three hope to con- dense 514 weeks' work. The mother tongue gets its due share of emphasis at Denton High School in subjects which range between. in and among basic grammar. Shakespeare, letter writing, the Brownings-in short the literary greats and the rudiments of the language-the utilitarian and the cultural aspects of living. Below is pictured the English faculty of DHS: Mrs. Mary Elaine Sullivan. Mrs. Virginia Blair, Miss Eulah McElroy fhead of the departmentl. Mrs. Kate Smoot. Miss Sahra Parsons. Mrs. Opal Hall, Doug Bennett twhose chief duties lie in the publications departmentl and Mrs. Catherine Shuforcl. 2 tiiS1 - l 5 .f