Downey High School - Shield Yearbook (Modesto, CA)

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MUSIC The instrumental music depart- ment offers beginning and ad- vanced courses in hand and or- chestra as well as theory and mus- ic appreciation. The advanced or- chestra plays in concert, for d r a in a presentations, and for choral groups. The advanced hand performs during all home football games and many away games. The choral department presents classes in Chorus, Beginning Girls’ Glee, and Men’s Glee. Right: Kenneth Farrell—Department Head, Gladys Crane, Leigh Kimball. MATHEMATICS Some of the courses offered in this de- partment are Alge- bra I, II; Trigonome- try; Plane and Solid Geometry; and Prac- tical Mathematics. Front row: Dorwin Lueth —Department Head, Mel- born Simmons, Stella Gio- vanetti. Second row: Henry Proctor, Richard DeWolf, Leila Prothero. 13 AUTO BODY AND PRINTING Courses in Auto Body and Print- ing are offered at MJC. C. C. At- wood teaches Auto Body and Sam Price teaches Printing. HOME TEACHER If a student is physically unable to attend school, hut is able to study, he may have a home teach- er. Florence Holden (right) works with students at home so that when they return to school they are up to date with their class work.

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AGRICULTURE The Agriculture Department is de- signed to train boys to be farmers or to work at farm occupations. To do this, regular class study is supplemented by the activities of the Future Farmers of America and home-supervised farming pro- grams. Harold Stanley—Department Head, Wal- ter Hanson, Stanley Diekman. ART All art classes try to give broad, varied experiences using as many media as possible, so they may provide opportunities for creative expression and discover and en- courage the development of talent. This is true of all art, applied art, and commercial art classes. Leslie Larson, Ida Gross—Department Head. Carlington Kuglin, Graphic Arts. BUSINESS The Business Educa- tion Department pro- vides opportunities for students to major in the fields of mer- chandising, book- keeping, secretarial, and clerical occupa- tions. Front row: Harold Hub- bard, Dorothy Brown, Adelaide Chu bbuck— Department Head, Zala Clark, Leone Moseley, Helen Monteith, Henry Hovanasian. 12

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Marilynn Ballinger, Jean Halletc, Genevieve Kul- ina—Department Head, Barbara Steele. Inez Lemmon—Department Head, Shirley Han- sen, Helen Allison, Madelyn Williams. GIRLS’ PHYSICAL EDUCATION HOMEMAKING The freshman and sophomore classes par- ticipate in team and individual sports, rhythms, tumbling, and apparatus. Junior and senior classes elect, as far as facilities, space, and class size allow, the activity they prefer.' A co-educational program of rhythms, volleyball, softball, and games is included. Specialized courses in this department in- clude Clothing I, II, III; Tailoring; Foods I, II, III; Cafeteria Foods; Home Manage- ment; Home Nursing; Home Decoration; and Child Care. General homcmaking courses are Homcmaking I, II, III. and IV. There are also many possibilities for elec- tives. INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION This department provides in- struction in Auto Body, Elec- tricity, Auto Mechanics, Ma- chine Shop, Mechanical Drawing, Printing, Wood- work, and General Shop. In General Shop, instruction is given in Woodwork, Metal- work, Arts and Crafts, and Plastics. Front row: John Ingram, Lloyd Raymond. Insert: Rich- ard Knox. Back row: Louis Schwark — Department Head, Loyal Smith, Robert Hawkins.