Marian Anderson Junior High School - Hummingbird Yearbook (Tulsa, OK)

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Type, cook, build, sew Getting ready to make a living Kristine Farmer, Virginia Crisp, Tania Jordan, Sandra Dillard, and Carolyn Flowers are amazed that popovers are hollow: Mrs. Pate fills them. ABOVE, students in typing classes work to attain a skill they can use in school or on a job. ABOVE, Right, Aaron Chaplin learns how to handle a sewing machine in one of the four CVET trailers, this one taught by Mrs. Clifton. RIGHT, Jamie Burr and Felicia Hernandez work carefully to get that seam just right in home economics class. Career education Ricky Bedwell works on a bottle opener in Industrial Arts. Pro- jects in wood and metal are made by students in I.A. Learning something that can help get a job, either parttime now or a regular job later . . . typing, cooking, and sewing talents are always important . . . CVET program comes in four packages-four trailers . . . each quarter brings new equipment, new teacher . . . building trades . . . small motors . . . business machines . . . health and food services . . . skills learned in Industrial Arts can lead to jobs in machine work, building trades, drafting, tool-making . . . DOING classes give important balance to learning experience.

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We speak, listen, read, write TV taping intrigues us Seventh graders in Mr. Conway's class try their hand at video-tape making, to create an informative documentary about Anderson . . . Mrs. Smith's Phase II reading classes get before camera for a play and talent show . . . greater emphasis on basic skills in eighth grade communication classes . . . Phase I readers use drill, games, team-work, puzzles, other methods . . . Spanish classes for both first and second year students . . . ninth graders produce an anthology including original short story, biography, one-act play, essay, and poem. ABOVE, Neal Lapham and Scott Colwell take a second step into ABOVE, Betty Beaver, Chris Henry, Sharon Zeigler, Danny Swatzell, and Bill Tosh work on grammar skills in eighth grade English class in October. Mrs. Ruth Price, BELOW, teaches speech, reading, and eighth grade English. She helps Clay Carter find some data. if si g X 'O if Spanish study. BELOW, it's near the end of first semester, and time for Sharon Wa1lace's notebook check in the ninth grade English classes of Mrs. Juanita Hoplins. At RIGHT, Rene Amster stands by as Mrs. John Conway checks camera focus. Communication skills

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Do we have our own icasse, Bach . . . Or a Spitz? 5 W' , ,L I E ,L i r f xr' Qi? n K.. 'U- 3 Jackie Robinson and Terry Largent observe Ronnie David as he puts his version of a proposal on the board. Art students cut out magazine pictures to create marriage proposals prior to the Valentine season. Earlier in the year, Anderson students' work was displayed at Gilcrease. Q c , .1 V. A i S we 4 w ' QQ. it A M 7 1' 'W X5 l n,ir 1 , . .fa . ,,. sea- . ff ,M J ,. . H an w,,Mw , . H W wish, 1, iiwlgil nit, , V .,,.4z5YL . f :-1'.: m.1 :- .- '1.16'7' Tj, ' ff. ' - ' r 'W igiff-W Mandel Samuels, Fontsyne Payton, and Earl Younger supply the percus- sion section for the Anderson band, under the baton of Mrs. Tammy Kirk. The beat is good and solid in the hands of those young men. Drown-proofing of each of Anderson's young men was a goal in the physical education department this year. Here Tim Harris, Charles Lacey, other sixth hour swimmers test to see that they will be able to stay safely afloat in case of an emergency. Every student has chance to try his talents . . . art classes give instruction in drawing, making effective posters, working in the Indian arts, such as weaving, beadwork, sand painting . . . musically, students in- terested in singing or instrument have a chance to per- form in Glee Club, band. or orchestra . . . young women in physical education classes are trying to improve swimming skills, will have a Junior Lifesaving class, and do detailed work on trampoline . . . hard practice made a capable girls' volleyball team ready to enter city-wide competition . . . young men train in swimming, gymnastics, football, basketball, volleyball .... P.E., music, art ' 9