John H Reagan High School - Spur Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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WORKING WITH INDUSTRIAL arts students, Mr. Briggs discusses details of a drawing. FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT . . . Drama is a one semester, one-half credit course. The course deals with the basic fundamentals of acting and a student acquires practice in acting and play production. Speech I and II are both one-half credit courses. In these courses the fundamentals of speech arc- taught. Stress is put on the physiology of vocal mech- anism, on vocabulary building and on the training of the speaking voice. Debate is a one-half credit course. In this course the debate process is carefully examined and practice in argumentation and debate is acquired. Stress is placed on learning to disagree agreeably, on organiza- tion, on clear thinking and on effective delivery-. Band I and Advanced Band arc both one credit courses. Band I is a course for students who might have some instrumental experience, but who are not ad- vanced enough to read senior band literature yet. Band I is a preparatory- course for Advanced Band. The Advanced Band represents Reagan at public perform- ances such as football games and inter-school contests. Orchestra is an instrumental music course designed to help develop an understanding appreciation of good music, and it is a one credit course. This course is new at Reagan, initiated in the fall of 1967. Mrs. Jo Frances Hill Math Cecelia Houk Spanish R. B. Hunger Band Mrs. Jo Ann Ingram Math Mrs. Mozellc Isbell Counselor Secretary Mrs. Marguerite Jarrell Art Robert Jones Drivers Education Oscar Kellner Sfience 198

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Teachers Strive for Student Perfections Dorothy Flury Science Mrs. Betty Franks Social Studies Wallace Freytag Physical Education Mrs. Cora Fuller Latin Kenneth Gibbons Science Mrs. Peggy Gilbert Attendance MR. MANAHAN GETS an early start on figuring six-weeks grades, ... during the first week of school. Travis Greenwood Social Studies Cecil Griffin Industrial Arts Charles Griggs French Mrs. Luellen Grossman German Mrs. Susan Hacklcman Physical Education Mrs. Doris Henderson Spanish SCIENCE DEPARTMENT ... General Science I and II is a one credit course offered in ninth and tenth grades only. Biology I and II is a one credit course in which all living things, their behavior, reproduction, heredity and methods of securing and using foods are studied. Physics I and II is a one credit course which includes the study of light, heat, sound, mechanics and elec- tricity. It is recommended for those students who plan to take any advanced science. Chemistry I and II acquires one credit per year and is the study of material substances and the changes they undergo. Physiology I and II are both one-half credit courses. They deal with the way in which the human body is constructed and the manner in which the various parts interact, keeping them working at maximum ef- ficiency. Sociology is a one-half credit course in which social problems and methods of solving them are taught. Problems in family life, political parties, racial diffi- culties, crime, and the moulding of our culture are stressed. 197

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Giving Individual Help Is Part of Teacher’s Job Mrs. Alice Kidd Math Mrs. Katherine Kinnicl! Math Mrs. Shirley Kinningham Math Mrs. Judith Kirkpatrick Commercial Gene Kornfeld English Jack Louis Social Studies Carroll Lundin Physical Education Mrs. E. Lundgren Homemaking Mrs. Grace Luter Distributive Education William Manahan Science Mrs. Lana Mangold Homemaking Mrs. Betty Martinez- Palacio Spanish E. H. Meadows Social Studies Delbert Moberg Math and Coach Peggy Mueller English Edward Mugford Science Mrs. Frances McCormick Secretary J. Logan McCown Math IT'S ALL IN a day’s work, says Miss Flury. 199