Ponce de Leon High School - Cavaleon Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Left to right. top to bottom: Mrs, Maudie Cook. department head, typing and shorthundg Mrs. Aurelin Davis, registrarg Miss Marie Gibson, financesg Mrs. Marie 0,Neil, typing and shorthandg Mrs. Barbara VVilson, secretary to the principal, Mr. Fred Wilson, typing. OTHE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT offers credits in typing, shorthand, bookkeep- ing, and office practice. Instruction is also given in the operation of mimeograph ma- chines. ZZ Ddaefw pawn 7a Finances of the school are adeptly han- dled by Miss Marie Gibson, who is con- stantly shoveling in nel dineron from the the various organizations of the school. A most important position is held ca- pably by Mrs. Aurelia Davis, the registrar, who has on file the permanent records of all Ponce students. -LESTON NAY

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STUDENTS RUN NEYV CLASSES OPICTURED ON THESE PAGES are the ten teachers having the task of instructing Ponce students in various branches of the social sciences. Something new in these courses has come with the introduction hy Dr. C. C. Peters, director of Americanism through social studies, University of Miami, of experimental classes that are student con- trolled as far as the subjects studied dur- ing the semester are concerned. These special courses have embraced American history, senior civies, and sociology. Wlith an industrious class, this experimental course may prove very interesting. The material, in the form of books, pamphlets, etc., for these classes is supplied hy Dr. Peters himself. Last semester, a course was offered in psychology, taught hy Mrs. Herherta Leonardy, which proved very popular with the students taking the course. Equipped with new text hooks that bring the student right through the UN conferences, our world history classes have ample opportunity to study the economic and political aspects of war and peace. -LESTON NAY Mrs. Ruth Johnson, American history Lefl ln right, top to bottom: Mrs. Mary Coover. com- mercial geography, Miss Katherine Davis, American historyg Mrs, Herherta Lennurdy, sociology and de- hnlingg Miss Elhlyn Massey, world historyg Miss Katherine Megihben. Civics and eronomicsg Miss Christine Young, freshman rivics and vocational guidance.

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ofYlRS. PEARL DAVIS, A. B., is In-ad of thc language tlvpartmr-nt, which covers Latin, Spanish, and French, a suhjcct again htving offcrotl aftvr a long ah- SPIICC from thc i,0llI'l? ClIl'l'iI'lIllllll. Tc-aching Frt-ntfh is Mrs. Clairc F. Marhfy, who rcct-ivml hm' language training in Frantic both at tht- Univvr- sity of Nilllff' and at tht- SOPIJUIIIH' in Paris. Spanish is taught hy Mrs. Pt-arl Davis, Miss Eloist- Patterson, and Miss Kathryn Coothsin. This suhjvct is oi' grval illlP0l'i8lllTlY to stuthfnls hcrc, ht-- causv of our proximity to the Spanish speaking nations in Cvntral and South .AlIll'l'iCi:l. Many more Sllltil'Ilf5 arc taking tht: ativanccti ltlllgllilgl' l'0lll'Sl'S than former- ly, prohahiy htwausc the roalization has como that languags- is ncvx-ssai'y to a XVIYII-l'0llINll'fi l'Illll'2lii0ll in high school, as wcll as hoing important to thosar planning to cuter collcgc. Aitling in tht- instruction of Spanish are movios on Pllll-Allll'l'i0i'l, in Span- ish, and rcvortls of the Spanish lan- guagc that are pl'0s0lltr'fi to the classtvs. Also hr-lping Spanish tcacht-rs this year was Sr-nior 5Xgut-ro, an vxchangt- tcachvr from Costa Rica. YLFSTOK NAY. 1 Left to righl: Mrs. Pearl Davis. department head, Latin and Fpanishg Miss Kathryn Goodwin, Spanishg Mrs. Kathryn Ham-klcy, Lating Miss Eloise Patterson. Spanish,