Jefferson High School - Spectrum Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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MRS. AYER MISS DEIERIEIN MISS CAMPBELL MISS ELDER LANGUAGES With an ever-increasing interest in international affairs, including the present European crisis, the study of foreign languages is becoming more important every term. The Jefferson language department is offering to its students courses in Latin, French, Spanish, and German. With the aid of modern textbooks the teachers are enabled to make the people and their languages live for the students. A four year course is offered to students who wish to major in any of these languages. Two years' study of idiomatic grammar with some translation is compulsory for those students taking a college preparatory course. The third and fourth years, which are spent mainly in translation, are elective. Each language department maintains a club for the pupils who wish further to develop their knowledge of the subject. The language teachers are Miss Irene M. Campbell. Mrs. Ethel Ayer, Miss Grace Deierlein, Miss Mary Elder, Mrs. Louise Grondahl, Miss Estelle M. Ingalls, Miss Ella Karnopp, Miss Juanita Parker, Miss Almeda Poynear, and Miss Ruth Rockfellow.

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MRS. GAY MISS RERGSVIK MISS NEWTON MISS CHATFI6LD THE ARTS By developing local talent and by furnishing posters and other art work to various organizations, the art department holds a definite and important place in the school. In order to give each pupil an opportunity to express his inner feelings, the art courses are many and include commercial art, industrial art, freehand drawing, cartooning, designing, mechanical drawing, and history of art. These courses are taught by Miss Christine Bergsvik. Mrs. May G. Gay, Miss Margaret Newton, and Mr. Frank E. Mangold. For those girls who want to prepare themselves for the management of a home, the household arts department offers cooking, sewing, home management, dietetics, interior decorating, and dress designing. Many girls participate in these studies, making and modeling many of their own clothes and stirring up delicious concoctions whose de- lightful aromas exasperate the whole school. They do this under the guidance of Miss Lora Hendershott, Mrs. Helen Siver, Mrs. Lucile H. Higgins, and Miss Hope Chatfield. The most unusual feature of this department is the boys’ cooking class, under the guidance of Mrs. Higgins. There are also courses in bookbinding and manual training taught by Mr. Leon LaForge.

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COMMERCIAL Secretaries and stenographers are born in the commercial department of Jefferson, as typewriters peck and pencil points yield queer figures. Included in the commercial department are typing, short- hand. commercial law, commercial geography, bookkeep- ing, writing, and spelling. Because of the extent of the regular commercial course, a student planning to do secre- tarial work does not need to spend as much time at busi- ness college. With the exception of the college preparatory, the com- mercial course is the most popular one in the school. Our commercial teachers are Mr. R. L. Edwards, Miss Betty Burgard, Mrs. Audrey Coons. Miss LeeNora Cunningham. Mrs. Louise Srondahl, Mrs. Margaret Larson, Miss Mar- garet M. Purvine, Mr. John Rockwell, Jr., and Miss Anna May Sechler.