John Muir High School - Hoofbeats Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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Perception From Senior English A varied and stimulating program of college work at the high school level was provided by John Muir ' s special senior English courses. These courses included honors English IV, Literary Classics, and Current Literature, Accepting only the top students from English III, honors English IV was a course aimed at the broadening of the individual through in-depth reading and discussion. Literary Classics classes, in acquainting the high school student with mans literary heritage, read such works as The Odyssey, by Homer, 7 Famous Greek Plays, Man and Superman, by George Bernard Shaw Paradise Lost, by Milton and A Mid-Summer Night ' s Dream by Shakespeare. Current Literature included analysis and discussion of modern works of literature in such areas as poetry, drama, short stories and novels. Literary activities included the Literature Seminar, a discus- sion of various works of literature and work on Muir ' s literary magazine, the inner i. Mr. Francis Sariego English Red Cross Sponsor Mr. Stanley Seavey English Mrs. Gwen Holly Simpson English, Drama Thespion Society Sponsor Mrs. Charlotte Vierec.k English Soph Class Advisor WITH PENCIL POISED. Mrs Brenda Register oids on Honors English IV student in bringing out an importonr poml for class discussion. 23

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Pre-collegiates Gain Awareness, CORRELATING IDEAS FROM classic literalure with modern day lite, Mr John tberhart explains a theme from Plafo s Svmnosium in Literary Classics Class. Miss Fay Lampork English Jr. Class Adviser Mr. Keith McKay English, Social Science Mrs. Vivian Meade English Mr Ralph Pinney Reading Wanderers Sponsor Mrs. Brenda Register English S ■ Club Sponsor Mrs. Margaret Remde English Youth Council Sponsor Mr. Peter Ruth English Mrs. Barbara Santos English 22

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Journalistic Skills Reap Winning I EST AHAT BLAZER RATES the attention of its editors: (seated at center! Herb Trubo, Editor. in-Chiet Diono Dibble, Page 1; Mrs, Barbara Burns, advisor (back rowl Sally Hoover, Page 3: Molly Munger, Page 2, Julie Allen, News, Karl Lindauer, Sports; Janet Hooper, Managing; Carol Hanna, Circulation. Attempting to answer some of the Who, What, Why, When and Where s of student life Muirs bi-weekly newspaper, the Blazer, captured stu- dent life at Its usual hectic pace. Herb Trubo, Editor-in -Chief, headed the paper which took the Ail-American rating for three-consecutive years. In addition, the Blazer was given Columbia Scholastic ' s Medalist Award. Working with an unusually large staff of 30 members, the class, under the direction of Mrs. Barbara Burns, produced a paper of school news, features, sports and opinions. This year there was added emphasis on special features. In addition, editorials dealt with subjects of more universal importance. Outside of school, many members of the Blazer staff attended workshops at UCLA, LACC and use in order to improve their |ournalistic tech- niques. WHY ' INFORMING STUDENTS of scfiool fioppenings. Herb Trubo (leftl considers several articles for the feature page, while Sports Editor Karl Lindauer (upper right) gets a press box view of o football gome and busy hands crop pictures. WHERE ' BLAZER HEADQUARTERS, located m D build ing, are always a scene of action, harassment, hilarity and occasionally, work. 24