Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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14 Basketball and assistant football mentor, Eugene Hansen taught world geography and American history. Miss Betty Adams, girls' gym instructor, sponsored Pep Club and G. A. A. Bert Hitt was football coach, assistant basketball coach, and boys gym teacher. After his discharge from the army, Ed Holt began geology classes at the first of the second semester. Edward Whalley. also an ex-service man, came back to coach wrestling, teach chemistry, and supervise several study halls. Miss Irene Gray replaced Miss Ruth Matthews as speech and English teacher. Richard Hunt took Allen Wolfe's place in the shop. At the vocational school, shop and auto mechanics were taught by Herbert Benson. Charles Turner trained students in welding. Gus Constantine also instructed in shop and auto mechanics. By purchasing a large amount of surplus war equipment the school district has expanded the vocational department, and in the future it will play an even more significant part in the curriculum. At midterm the vocational school moved from its downtown location to the college farm. Being boys and student council adviser and teaching mechanical drawing were the duties of Clyde Granere. Miss Gladys Glendenning supervised senior home economics and other homemaking classes and was a F. H. C. sponsor. Senior high home economics and junior high classes were taught by Mrs. Wilna Treichler, who was later replaced by Mrs. Herbert Benson. Assisting in the shop instruction was Bid Irvin.

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Hard work and industrious study brought the students of 1946 successfully to the conclusion of another school year.