Prescott High School - Hassayamper Yearbook (Prescott, AZ)

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Success Depends on Communication Mr. Jim Smith and Vicki Hill, senior, discuss some of the problems of English. Mr. Smith teaches English 3-4 and is varsity basketball and JV track coach. Also. Mr. Smith is Senior Class sponsors. Mrs. Gloria Hood grades papers from her English 3-4 classes. In her first year at Prescott High School. Mrs. Hood sponsors Yellow- jackets. working hard with the club's projects. She also is one of the sponsors of the Junior Class. Mrs. Virginia Knudtson. Sophomore Class sponsor, explains the literary value of English literature in her English 5-6 and Honor English classes. Mrs. Knudtson sponsors the National Honor Society and participates in American Education Week and the Language Arts Committee. Carolyn Barnes, sophomore, learns facts about space from Mr. Jay Jones. Mr. Jones, who teaches Basic Education, is also co-sponsor of FTA. He is seen many times throughout the year chaperoning the rooter buses to away games. Mr. Jones is one of the Sophomore Class sponsors. —19—

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English Teachers Influence Students’ Future Laughing over the sometimes humorous semantic situations, Mr. Dennis Burges is in the midst of teaching a course in semantics in his English 7-8 class. Mr. Burges, who also teaches Creating Writing, is the Creative Writing Club advisor and one of the Junior Class sponsors. Mr. Hadley Hicks explains the principles of com- munication to one of his Speech classes. Mr. Hicks also teaches English 5-6 and is varsity football coach, assistant baseball coach, and Junior Class sponsor. A thorough knowledge of the English language and the proper way of using if is a necessary tool for every student to have. Success in many professions depends heavily on accurate and intelligent communication. The goal of the English teachers is to emphasize the import- ance of effective communication and to verse the students well in this field. This year the new head of the English Department is Mrs. Dorothy Galde. It is her responsibility to organize and direct the functions of the department. All students of Prescott High School are required to take three years of English. A fourth year is offered for those students who are interested in furthering their education after high school. Miss Joan Lukert, newcomer to Prescott High, stresses the import- ance of organization in composition to her Senior English students. She also teaches English 5-6, is a Senior Class sponsor, and the Speech Club advisor. — 18—

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Understanding, Comprehension Enhance Paul Newman eat your heart out! Modest Mr. R. T. Mikulewicz teaches the Journalism 1-2 classes and is the advisor for both tho Badger and the Hassayamper staffs. Mr. Mike sponsors Quill and Scroll and is one of the Sophomore Class advisors. Mrs. Luanne Lea looks up a word in Webster's unabridged for her sopho- more English class. Mrs. Lea also teaches Honors English 7-8. She is a senior sponsor and the assistant advisor to National Honor Society. Mrs. Dorothy Galde is shown helping some of her sophomore English students with problems in English. Mrs. Galde is busy through- out the year heading the English Department and working as co-sponsor of Yellowjackets besides teaching her English 3-4, 7-8 classes. Also, she participates on the National Honor Society Committee, the Language Arts and Counseling Guidance Committee and is a Senior Class sponsor. —20—