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

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Mrs. Kddlf lloijsilt rritlains tlie mechanism of a reading accelerator iiiachine to John Pendergrast, John Sutrina, Ulrs. Elizalieth Lynch, and Miss Virginia Futyhum, English teachers. Learners of Basic Skills While wandering about the halls one afternoon, I caught a whiff of coffee. Investigating, I found that the language arts group was meeting. Curling up to listen, I discovered that many of the English teachers have co-curricular activities whic h lend a break to teaching, revealed Nitsi. Miss Emma Groom and Miss Ruth Wood instruct third and fourth year English students. Miss Groom also has the respon- sibility of being SBA bookkeeper. Miss Virginia Fulghum, be- sides teaching first and third year English, is a senior class sponsor. Co-sponsoring Pep Club and sponsoring Bible Club is Mrs. Aluine Whalley, who teaches freshman and junior English, Nitsi explained. Enlivening his sophomore English classes with his twinkling English teachers, Mrs. Aluine Whalley and Miss Emma Groom plan daily assignment books for their I ' lnsses. humor is John Pendergrast. To instruct freshmen in improv- ment of reading and written expression as well as other skills in communications are the aims of Mrs. Sadie Hogsett and John Sutrina. Mrs. Elizabeth Lynch is a sophomore class sponsor and teaches English fundamentals to first and second year students, she continued. These teachers strive to give students a basic understanding of their own language. The first two years present the most significant fundamentals of reading, speaking, writing, and listening. Junior classes emphasize American literature, and the senior course is concerned with a study of English liter- ature and greater improvement in communication skills. Bob tries to convince Shirley that sentence diagramming is simple. Page 19

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ShortliaiKl stmlciilx write furiouslij as Miss Rcha Wing dirtntcs a practice letter. Office Specialists While peering from benc.ith a typewriter sp.itc b.ir, I ob- served the activities of the typing classes, .iclinittcd Nitsi. Under the instruction of Miss Prances X cbcr and Miss Reba ' ing, who both sponsor Tri-S, students learned the parts of the typewriter besides developing typing skill, leariilng correct letter forms, and mastering other mechanics. The typists checked their skill through speed tests. Bookkeeping and shorthand, also taught by Miss Wclx ' r and Miss Wing, complete the commercial program. Shorthand students first mastered the characters later using them in actual dictation, added Wit. Elementary retailing, instructed by Mrs. Ililda Delaplaine, helps to prepare students for the business world, continued i ' t. Business math, instruction in operating a cash regis- ter, learning to handle customers, plus numerous other busi- ness necessities are included in the course. Students having studied elcmcntarv retailing are given first chance to enter DE. Business teachers. Miss lieha Wing. Mrs. Ilildn Detaptainc. (mil Miss Frrnices ' eher, lind dnilii incidentx (iiniif:iii;i. Neil, Roseanna. mid . !(e i look orer a complicated forni which their study in cteiiiciitniii retailing n ' ill help them understand. Ceitrai Lif Page 18

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.1 rfcoi •! . ml iinirhinr offers Mrs. EthiJ I ' .iilli ' U ■ ». Miss Irene Criiii an 0l purl II iiili to eheek elosely Die roiees of tlieir sliiileiils. Communication Experts I think I ' ll be an orator, commented Vl ' it, wriggling in proper oratorical gestures after spending a period in one of the speech classes. Miss Irene Gray, director of speech activities, and Mrs. Ethel Bothcll teach first and second year students how to express themselves, think on their feet, prepare proper and interesting speeches to de- liver before the class. Teenagers listened to their voices on records and made tape recordings in order to improve their enunciation and tt)ne quality. Mrs. Bothell and Miss Gray both help to direct Drama Club, and in addition Miss Gray arranged the Western Slope Speech Clinic and directed both the junior and senior class plays, put in Nitsi. Acting in pantomime, Darlene and Dick portray a srrnc from Romro rinci Juliet for their speeeji elass. Students taking journalism claim that there is more work con- nected with it than may appear, ' it told Nitsi after witnessing a particularlv harassing day in room 108. In addition to writing stories for the Orange and Black and the Daily Sentinel, journal- ists also laid out ad hich the sold to business men, wrote liead- lines for their stories, gathered information tor the Tiger Annual, and did various other tasks necessary to make the publications department turn out good reading for students. Miss Lillian Lar- son, publications director, also supervises work on the Tiger An- nual, Orange and Black, Tiger 1 laiulbook, and (.Kies some pub- licitv for School District 5 1. Miss l.illiuii l.iirson iliseusses exchange nctcspapcrs leith a first- iieiir joiirmlisin class. Page 20