Highline High School - Pirates Log Yearbook (Burien, WA)

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1 - W,' Back to basics pays off The emphasis on basics at Highline has paid offg for the past two years, the English department has won the National Council of English Instructors Outstanding Teaching Award. Highline has an outstanding English department, and this fact was evident in the quality of classes offered this past year. Our country's Bicentennial has expressed a new emphasis on student life, the past and the future were brought to Highline students through the new courses, the American dream, 200 years later and futuristics. Students continued to show growing interest in the writing and literature classes such as, expository writing, writing themes, Shakespeare, and science fiction. Skim K Mrs. lerri Lunneborg Mr, jghn Roberts Mrs. Virginia Sletner MV- Donald Blmgef Mr. Harry Oldenburger Mr. Kenneth Myers

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Mr. Gordon Graham Miss Alice Hausner Miss Patricia Sullivan 20 i

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Mr. l. CQ Bonney Mr. Vern Elwell Mrs. Rosaly Farris vt SJ' Practical application of 1 .1 Mathematics plays an important role in the modernxlip world, and Highline's teachers continued to stress its use in many different areas such as geometry, math analysis, and computer classes. Highline offered a mathematics class for every indi- vidual need. Basic math, taught by Mr. Earl Wog, was offered to give a vocationally bound student a basic knowledge of the subject. Mr. lack Withrow taught calculus and a college preparatory course. Students showed great interest in the geometry classes taught by Mrs. Rosalie Farris and Mr. Vern Elwell, and in the algebra classes taught by Mr. 1. C. Bonney. Students who had previously thought that the mathe- matics they had studied offered no practical application to their lives discovered, as they entered into a chosen field, that mathematics becomes a vital part of their success or failure. mathematics emphasized Mr. jack Withrow Mr, Earl Wog L i, ' ' '--1 ff!