Redwood High School - Oak Yearbook (Visalia, CA)

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FRED BEIER Refresher Mathematics Vocationa EUGENE HAGUE Chemistry, Physics Applied and General Science MONTY FONES Trigonometry, Geometry, Algebra HIRAM FEAREY I and General Mathematics CECIL DISBROW Algebra GENE SMITH Life Science LEWIS WALKER Biology, Science Department Head we Wafiemafica .fgrwl Science refienf many .fdncl varied -.1 v -A f'- - ,gf ,,,. J. .. H31 -V r , .rw -'-. V.. , I WHILE DEMONSTRATING an involved trig problem to his first period class, through the aid of his innumerable handy dandy diagrams, Mr. Fones registers shock and surprise as he catches his middle finger in the slipstick of his demonstration slide rule.

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l CHARLES POLK MARGARET BARTONL LUTHER SMELTZER BETTY IZEWIS English Lfbrdfldh Y 5. English Enghsl' ISABELLE MENENDIAN English, Department Head jine .Arid Wan Faculty members of the English Department had little trouble in con- trolling student passions, since English is definitely not considered a romance language. We have news for the English Department! lt is true that in class, students registered only emotions of business-like complacency, but on our own, we boys and girls made English do. This department offered instruction in many different facets of lan- guage usage and communication through courses in iournalism, speech, and drama lclasses in make-believel, literature, creative writ- ing lnote passingl, and dull grammar. Individual interests of the department members varied from studying Shakespeare to playing football. Mr. Butts advocated that the play's the thing -oddly enough, so did Coaches Polk and Seastrom. Mr. Sweeney's line of thinking differed a bit as he said playing is the, , A thing. He illustrated his point by tickling the ivories of his pipe organ to the tunes of O, Promise Me, Calliope Music at the Circus, The Wedding March,' and Harlem Nocturne. Quite a department, this. JOHN HENRY GREG SEASTROM English English PETE SWEENEY SHELDON BUTTS English, Journalism, Yearbook English, Drama, Speech I9 ...im .Q f.

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elaarfmenfd Konfinua y Urogdmd 0 .San Cleft t5 l Burned fingers, marred desk tops, acid stains, and doodle pads were all common characteristics of our Mathematics and Science Departments, By the end of the afternoon, Mr. Hague and Mr. Fones regressed to the latter obiect, while Mr. Smith topped off his day with a rousing workout in the gym, and Mr. Walker stomped up and down the first nine at the Country Club looking for lost balls and golf team members. All year long the students of these departments occupied them- selves with efforts toward disproving the Pathagorean Theorem, Newton's three laws of motion, and the theory of atomic structure. Along with these problems, students were faced with the task of learning material from text books, lab manuals, math tables, dic- tionaries, crib sheets, and last year's students' experiment write- ups. Generally, students weren't overly successful in either en- deavor. ln his clean white lab apron lfashioned somewhat like o mechan- ic's cover-allsl, Mr. Hague attempted many experiments during the long, long year, and he probably will go on attempting in the years to come. Mr. Walker thoroughly enioyed dissecting worms, frogs, and other small, defenseless creatures-he's quite a cut-up. 'Mn-Fones is-a lover of music, and to supplement his wages as a teacher, he is in the process of composing an album entitled, Guitar Music to do Math By. This album will contain such tunes as: The Theme From Algebra One, Reciprocal Refrain, Logari- thms to the Base e, Trigonometry Tango, Refresher Math Rock, Cosine Can-Can, Binomial Blues, and the What You Do To One Side Of The Equation You Must Do To The Other Cha-Cha-Cha. xi Q , Y X , MR. WALKER PARTICULARLY enioyed the mid-morning break for the opportunity to indulge in the sheer bliss of three-day-old coffee drunk from stained and dirty mugs. The roving Log photographer found, however, that Mr. Biology, on one such occasion, was not too cautious in his preparation, and instead of grabbing hold of the coffee pot, accidentally filled his cup with carbolic acid. The result of this dis- astrous error is shown quite vividly in the picture at right.