Levelland High School - El Lobo Yearbook (Levelland, TX)

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Language Arts Cover Shakespeare to Ben Franklin to panish Verbs The English department began using the Science Research Program of Contemporary Composition which includes twelve major areas of composition and is taught by means of an overhead projector and transparencies, this year. Mrs. Birtciel commented about the program, I believe the quality of seniors' compositions has im- proved. Of course, the real improvement will show up when those who are now sophomores and juniors become seniors. The department was commended by the Evaluation Committee for its use of the SRP, the Seventh New Collegiate Dictonary, and the annual English Festival. The Festival follows strict Interscholastic League rules and includes creative and ready writing, speed reading and comprehension, grammar, spelling, speech, and exhibits contests. Usually the win- ners in the English Festival represent Levelland High in the literary and speech events at the District UIL meet. This was a year of firsts for the speech department. 6'Annie Get Your Gun in collaboration with the music department, was the first musical produced at LHS. It ran two nights in December. The first children's play, Cinderella, was acted for the grade school students by the department. The Teahouse of the August Moon was the first student-desiged production. The Thespians gave their first speech scholarship this spring. The one act play entered in U.I.L. competition was Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew. It was performed in Snyder on March 26. The foreign language department is expanding. French I and II have been added in the last three years, the Spanish and French Clubs increase students' understanding of foreign cultures. Miss Pat Stansell remarked, We try to speak French at all our club meetings. We listen to records and see movies of F rance. AULINE WINNINGHAM MAXINE ADAIR NINA BIRTCIEL GERALDINE JOHNSON ATSY PAYNE PAT STANSELL BETTY TREADWAY NORMA WOODELL 7

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LHS Teachers Lead Students The teachers at L. H. S. sponsor clubs, classes, and go on field trips, not to mention the time they give to students while at school. New teachers this year were Mrs. Norma Woodell, Bill Billingsey, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Norman, Mrs. Betty Treadway, Mrs. Maxine Adair, and Mrs. Elsie-,lane Couch. Miss Elsie-,lane Fore and Scott Couch were married during the school year on March 26, 1965. Mrs. Mildred McMurry was the Ex-students Honoree this year. Lev- elland teachers have made many contributions to the school this year as we will see on the follow- ing pages. POINTING OUT A PROBLEM on the board, I. B. Kempson lectures his plane geometry class on tan- gents, arcs, and angles. THE JUDCINC of the English festival is a rewarding tasl for all concerned. Left: Mrs. Inez Grant, head of the English Department of South Plains College, and Mrs. f. C. Porter, former teacher in the Levelland schools, judged the art work 4 on the student's neatness and ability to interpret a literary ,J selection. THE RESULTS shine in the smiles of Vickie Copeland and Sandra Moreland fbelowj who received a one-plus rating on their exhibit of the witch puppets from Shakespeare's Macbeth. fr S-9 if 'fl cc N if 'li' Y-in la 'i 0 ! Q . in I ,A A V . ,L ..,,3m

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ew Developmen Affect Levellancl Great strides in science and mathematics are made daily, and our departments are always making changes to give students the latest know- ledge. J. B. Kempson, math teacher, commented on the wave of modern math. There is really no such thing as modern mathg there is a modern approach to mathematics. More math theory is be- ing taught and taught earlier. More women are becoming scientists. ln previous years l had only one girl a year in trig and advanced mathg this year I had five in trig and three in advanced math. This is the first year I ever had a girl to take slide rule and efficiency math. Chemistry teacher J. B. Balch devotes much time to reading in order to keep up with new developments in his field. CLHS math and sci- ence teachers on the average read four and a half hours a week to stay up with new concepts.D Mr. Balch says, The kids we get now know more about science. They're learning at an earlier age, and we must continually adjust to this. This year our chemistry and physics courses were much more analytical. We have new textbooks and are continually buying new equipment. We try to look ahead four or five years and gradually buy what we will need then. The evaluation com- ts in Math and Science Students and Teachers LOBSTER NEWBURG ANYONE? Scott Couch uses many real animals to liven his biology classes. Here he shows the finer points ofa lobster to David Langford. LHS biology courses will undergo a complete revision and modernization next year. In fact, modernization is the key word in all our math and science courses. mittee was slightly awed by our lab facilities. JOHNNY CROUCH I6 J. B. BALCH M. L. BRASHEAR SCOTT COUCH J. B. KEMPSON J. W. NORMAN LUINE SIMPSON