Jefferson High School - Monticello Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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nb 'HHH vfiDK-Q'E:?1ifi,jg- :EY-:lsr Upper Picture Group of student assistants who help Miss Bertha Iimenez and Mrs. Helen Alexander in the main office by operating the tele- phone switchboard for the entire building, going on errands for Mr. Rogers, working on the school treasurer's books, cmd serv- ing as a courtesy committee for school visitors. Lower Picture Standing:-Billy Dell Crabb, Ianet Frost, Betty lane Mavrico. Seated:-Eloise Wood, Alice Beakley, Mary Pool. 0 Jattenaon ln Clam Thomas Iefferson offers a rich course of study, taught by eighty classroom teachers to 2,200 students in sixteen departments. Since 1935 the policy of separating language-composition from reading literature units has been followed in all courses of English. English III, English V, and English VII are courses in language-composition, English IV, English VI, English VIII, and English IX are courses in reading-literature. Credits in English III, English IV, English V, and English VI are required of all candidates for graduation. English VII, a college preparatory course, gives training in advanced composition, English -VIII, also a college preparatory course, gives training in reading English literature, English IX, a non-college preparatory course, is a course in modern literature. lournalism includes writing news, features, editorials, reports on speeches, interviews, advance and followups, sports, critical reports, literary articles, poetry, and advertisements. Copyreading, makeup, proofreading, headline style, and headline Writing are also taught. Objectives aimed at include the gathering, evaluating, interpreting, and presenting of sig- nificant information objectively, writing creatively in so far as individual capacities permit, developing ethical character and good citizenship, reading and buying newspapers and periodicals intelligently, and learning the fundamentals of journalistic technique necessary for work on student publications. The mathematics department offers eight credits. Algebra I gives a general view of directed numbers, the equation, and simple operations with algebraic symbols. Algebra II gives a general idea of the meaning of algebra, also definite and useful applications to every-day problems. Algebra III immediately follows Algebra II. Plane geometry reveals the interdependence of the branches of mathematics. Solid geometry and trigonometry may be taken the first half of the senior year, they are required for all who are to study engineering. Algebra IV, which must be taken the latter half of the senior year, gives a mastery of the mechanics of algebra and provides a foundation for the study of mathe- matics in college. About 1600 students enroll each year in this department. Commercial work offers typing, shorthand, bookkeeping, business arithmetic, business law, and business English. The purposes of the first four are vocational. Business English gives students the power of correct and forceful expression, both oral and Written, in all business and social contacts. Business law teaches the prospective business person how to keep out of litigation and when to employ a lawyer. Commercial work instructs the student in a means of earning a living, thus improving his chances for greater success in business. Page 30

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MR. T. GUY ROGERS. . . MR. A. I. IVEY .......... 'Iac ulltlff atlcll minihtnatian MISS FRANCES SMITH ..... MRS. EDITH STUDHALTER .... MISS BERTHA IIMENEZ. MRS. HELEN ALEXANDER ..... ART Mrs. Bartlett Cocke Miss Geraldine Townsend COMMERCIAL Mrs. Frances S. Chadwick Miss Elma E. Evers Miss Floy C. Finney Miss Lillie S. Gohmert Miss Opal Hughes Mrs. F. T. Smith ENGLISH Miss Edna L. Allem Miss Elizabeth Barrett Miss Marie Barrett Mrs. Bassie Q. Bennett Miss Mamie A. Brawner Miss Mattie Brewer Mr. Arthur Harris Miss Martha Evelyn Hill Mrs. L. C. House Miss Grace D. Huey Miss Esther M. Oberholtzer Miss Gladys Osmon Mrs. Audrey Terry Mrs. Ethel West Weaver Miss Ida Bess West FRENCH Miss Louise Brunet GERMAN Miss Alva Rossy g HISTORY Mr. Thomas A. Abbott Miss Stel Marie Culotta Mr. Howard C. Doolittle Miss Berta George Miss Marie E. Helland Page 29 A ' -' ' I me e..ai':9fi.':.- ,.i. ti Miss Elizabeth M. Morey Miss Marie O'Neil Miss Alva Rossy Miss Lula M. Suggs Mrs. Leon E. Taliaferro Miss Olga H. Vogel HOME ECONOMICS Miss Maedele Birdwell .... ...Principal . . . .Vice-Principal . . . .Dean of Girls . . L .... Registrar . . . .Office Clerk ...........OfiiceClerk MUSIC Mr. Francis De Burgos Mr. Ierome Zoeller PHYSICAL EDUCATION Mr. Cecil Burnett Mrs. Pearl S. Doolittle Miss Constance Douglas Mr. Harry Hamilton Miss Marguerite McFarland MiSS ROWGIICI Holliddv Mrs. O. O. Martin IOURNALISM Miss Ella Stone LATIN Miss Gladys E. Morgan Miss Pearl West LIBRARY Miss Mattie Brooks Miss Otela Kelley Mrs. Lynda R. McCutcheon MATHEMATICS Mr. R. W. Arrowood Mrs. Helen M. Bolton Mr. T. C. Burnett Mr. C. C. Daniel Mrs. Mary E. Hickman Miss Katherine Iarrell Miss Anna H. Iones Mr. Samuel H. Lane Miss Ida Mae Murray Mr. Calvin Surtees Miss Theresa Terrell MECHANICAL DRAWING Mr. H. E. Ralson Mr. L. E. Taliaferro -H. A -If .I 'a 7'-..f'.il.v Mr. Hollis H. Schulz PUBLIC SPEAKING Mr. Frederick Abbott Miss Constance Douglas Miss Ethel K. Orrell Miss Ximena I. Wolf R. O. T. C. Captain Ioseph B. McShane SCIENCE Miss Margaret F. Burke Mr. T. C. Burnett Mr. Wallace T. Butler Mr. E. E. Edwards Mr. H. Y. May Miss Mamie Stein Miss Charlotte Stoddard SPANISH Miss Vivian Arstein Miss Angela M. Chappelle Miss Florence B. Crowell Miss Anita Martinez Miss Marguerite Perez Miss Charlotte E. Wright .. ...asimthnnrlaz .144

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-I 4 7 Upper Picture Mr. Ivey's ofiice assistants on duty: These fine boys make themselves useful in many ways, such as collecting absentee slips, phoning homes of absentees, doing routine clerical work, answering the telephone, and going on errands. Lower Picture Standing: - Robert Favicz, Don Hess, lack Seriff, Harold Nemky, Ralph Mayen, David Watson, Terrell Couch, and Burr Sullivan. Seated: -Alfred Lea, Victor Weichlein, Bob Gulley, Lewis Kercheville, Iohn Ken- agy, and Wallace Powers.- if - Jettenlxon in Cllalxb The Latin department offers four years of Latin, beginners' Latin, Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil. The purposes of Latin are to develop a high standard of scholarship among its students and ability to read and understand Latin. The help given by Latin to the study of English grammar, English vocabulary, and English spelling is of prime importance. The Latin Club makes an award each year to the best student in each class, also Eta Sigma Phi medals, a national award, are presented to the A students in Virgil. French gives training in pronunciation, reading, translating, grammar, prose-composi- tion, and ability to use the language when asked questions. Students are trained to speak the language, to understand it when they hear it spoken, to understand and to appreciate the French people, and to understand the language in books, over the radio, and in motion pictures. French gives a good foundation for college French in the study of medicine, science, and other fields for which French is required. Objectives of the three-year course in Spanish are as follows: the ability to pronounce correctly, to understand and to use the language orally, the ability to read in the lan- guage, such knowledge of the grammar of the language as is necessary for reading with comprehension, a knowledge of Spain, past and present, and a special interest in her people, a cultural background to make the student realize that in this community Spanish has a great social and commercial value. German gives training in diction and reading, grammar, geography, history, literary appreciation, customs, sociology, music, poetry, dramatics, and good manners. The chief purpose is to make better citizens of the pupils. Students acquire ability to speak with German-speaking people, a reading knowledge of German for graduate work in the sci- ences and fine arts or for the doctorate of philosophy, interest in German art, music, liter- ature, and science, an understanding of the present status of German people and our relations with them, and a better understanding of the structure and vocabulary of the English language. The instrumental music classes include A Orchestra, B Orchestra, band, stringed instrument classes, and wind instrument Classes. The purpose of these classes is to help the beginning student to learn to play his instrument and the advanced student to further his ability for playing. The student learns the value of co-operation. Playing music also aids in the development ot fine character and of appreciation for good music and beauty. Page 31