Mark Keppel High School - Teocalli Yearbook (Alhambra, CA)

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GIRLS' PHYSICAL EDUCATION Arms ouT, side, TronT .... Touch your Toes! All The way down now! The groans rise loud and long Trom all The Mark Keppel girls, Tor, in spiTe oT The healTh-building aTTribuTes oT our mandaTory physical educaTion sysTem, we're all in- clined To grumble occasionally. AcTually This deparTmenT oTTers more To our girls Than iusT one hour oT gym each day Tor Tour years. A posTure conTesT beTween six girls Trom our school and six Trom Alhambra High School, held each year, emphasizes The imporTance oT having good posTure. Our girls' ph sical educaTion deparTmenT also sponsors The GAA, which gives The girls chances To enioy Themselves and develop T?lurTher skills as They ioin in aTTer school games. So, come on now . . . heads up, chins in! You all know ThaT you'll miss Those old Tennis shoes when They're laid away Tor good. HOMEMAKING Many Times This year we members OT The annual 5TefT were TempTed To Sl'eal ouT oT The oTTice oncl Tollow Our UOSGS To The wing which houses The home economics deparTmenT. Pencils and pens remained suspended as we speculaTed abouT The source of The delighTTul aromas. Foods and cloThing are The besT known courses oTTered by The deparTmenT, buT oTher popular courses include meal planning, boys' home economics, and home nursing. We can easily see ThaT our home economics deparTmenT covers many more Tields oT inTeresT Than iT did when moThher was a girl and Took sewing and cooking. Mrs. Myrile Cosners, Mrs. Kafhleen Becker, Miss Dorofhy TagerT Iheadl, Mrs. Joyce WhiTe, Mrs. BeTTie Travers, vieve Luche+Ta Mrs. Elma EisTraT, Mrs. RuTh Maupin Iheadl, Mrs. Vilelle, Mrs. Kafhleen Bridges Miss Gene 4 'li ' X ,Mila 325 9

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Page Mrs. Margaref BeaumonT, Mr. KenneTh Olson, Mr. Morfon Sfone, Miss EI+a Thomas, Mrs. RuTh Slough, Mr. Hugh BuFTum Mr. William Thrall, Miss Lupe TosTado, Mrs. Wilma Coker, Mr. Mervin Murphy, Miss Mary Cough, Mrs. Efva Hixson ENGLISH Were you one oT many KeppeliTes who enjoyed The English DeparTmenT's TeaTure moTion picTures in The audiTor- ium? If you were, you will remember The warm human emoTions OT Our Town, The surprises in The sTories OT OTl Tenry, The melodrama oT T-lasTy l-learT, and The Tragedy oT Romeo and JullieT. Besides presenTing good enTerTainmenT, The English DeparTmenT oTFers a varieTy oT new advenTures Tor The Keppel sTudenT. The liTeraTure oT Toreign lands, The sTrange myThs oT The Greelcs, The inTricaicies oT The complex senTence and dependenT clause, The wealTh in The plays oT Shakespeare, The presenTaTions oT book reporTs and discussions, The Troubles oT Jean Val Jean and Cyrano de Bergerac, and The rules Tor a good composiTion are all inTroduced To The English sTudenT during his one hour a day Tor aT leasT Three years. l lis Teachers armed wiTh red pencils TighT oTT a baTTery oT coilogualisms and spelling demons. Even wiTh all This Toodoo The English DeparTmenT has Time To sponsor The Teocalli, The AzTec and The LiTerary SocieTy. I6

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Mr. John Dawley, Mr. Charles While, Mr. Erwin Ahrens lheadl, Mr. Walfer Dean, Mr. Earl Kreinbring Mr. James Tisdel, Mr. Claus Pfiifzner, Mr. Kennelh McCoy, Mr. Melvin Kaplan, Mr. George Chalmers INDUSTRIAL ARTS DEPARTMENT How horrified an old-fashioned parenl would have been had his son come home from school one allernoon and said, I pul pipes on The old Ford loday. Tomorrow l'm going 'ro lower il. Now parenls undersland lhal lheir sons are, wilh experl supervision, gaining praclical knowledge 'ro help lhem when lhey have finished high school. Qur induslrial arls deparimenl, wilh one of 'rhe largesl enrollmenls in soulhern California, is responsible for placing many sludenls in good posilions upon graduafion. Page I8