John Marshall High School - Gavel Yearbook (Oklahoma City, OK)

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Odessa Wycoff Uses Modern Teaching Methods Betty Harder Harvey Weigle TWENTY SEVEN

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as is ge sz i i TWEMTY SZX . ' i PM i 'IT ,A K ' m KLLA get D it - ff-....,.,., , s , Ma,..,.,g Virginia Davis Juanita McDaniels LJ N 3 'Y wire, Louise Hill Business Education Department Establishes Pace with Progressp Efficiency stimulates progress . . . Modern teaching meth- ods pace the business education department, headed by Miss Virginia Davis. Some of the unusual techniques em- ployed are the use of opaque projectors, microphones, and pop records for rhythm practice. Through classes in accounting, clerical practice, typing, and shorthand, Bears attack the basic skills demanded of tycoons, the god- fathers of better living, and learn the secrets of the secretaries who run the offices for the men who run the world. JIVI business students keep pace with progress. mal'

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-s ,if if sf, A-fi Bessie Lou Shofstall Ann Ross I E .-'J x e mi ,is an r ,, ,r - 1' ,. A English, Journalism Stresses, Modifies Adventure through reading . . . The Bears' English department spurs insight into the depths of distantffriations, times, land ipeo- ples., inthe sophomore year, the program consists of an intensive grammar and vocabulary study, combined with creative exercises suchlas writing conclusions to short stories and solving crypto- grams. Juniors and seniors may be found discussing Hawthorne or Shakespeare, struggling over themes and character sketches, or writing inspirational thoughts for the morning devotionj The 'coordi- nating departments of speech and journalism perfect, skills neces- sary for public speaking, play production, and news publication. The chairman of this department is Mrs. Bessie Lou Shofstall. ' :Vw it tr'r 'l r g fl ,y,,, g ' i ii ,,,, ,,,, . s , i f Oliver Roberts Rigas-f 5 f 5 a TWENTY EXGHT Z, .