Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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MISS HELEN MC DONALD Department Chairman CURRICULUM The girls’ physical education department hopes to give each girl an opportunity to develop skill, sportsmanship, responsibility, leadership, and enjoyment of physical education through participation in various individual and group activities. The emphasis in the Sophomore program is on team sports, rhythmics, trampoline, and gymnastics. Individual activities, tennis, and archery are offered to the Junior Classes. Folk dancing is started at the Junior level. The emphasis at the Senior level is primarily on individual sports. The Seniors also have a choice of Modern or folk dance. Special classes in physical education are offered to students that are physically handicapped. “Herman” is a popular game often played on rainy days in the girls’ portable. GAA activities are held after school and are available to any girl at Richmond Union High School. These activities include basketball, volleyball, softball, archery, tennis, modern dance, tumbling, fencing, hockey, and badminton. Maria Thompson and Paulette Loveless do their modern jazz dance in perfect timing. Miss Jesseph Department Members—Seated: Miss Margaret Stewart, Miss Kay Langston, Miss Susan Grant, Jesseph. Standing: Mrs. Patricia Deacon, Mrs. and Miss Helen McDonald. Not Pictured: Mrs. Betty Garcia, Mrs. Claire Shaw, Miss Lanelle Alice Clark.

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MR. CARL MAYERS Department Chairman CURRICULUM The strength of our democracy is no greater than the collective well-being of our people. The level of physical, mental, moral, and spiritual fitness of every American citizen must be our constant concern. The need for increased attention to the physical fitness of our youth is clearly established. It is our department's job to provide the student an opportunity to make and keep himself physically fit, to provide a vigorous program of physical fitness, and to ensure that all children may enjoy the maximum benefits from a strong healthy body. following: 15 minutes of physical exercise, including The Boys’ Physical Education program of running each day, wrestling, soccer, tumbling, trampo- : Z : ; ; line, tennis, weight training, cross country running, bad- Richmond Union High School includes the Z : - : . minton, football, softball, basketball, volleyball, decath- lon testing program, and co-ed. Guarding the ball is a tedious task on a warm spring day during P.E. period. Our program tries to stress a well-balanced selection of activities that include vigorous physical activity. Students Co ; = are tested and programmed into classes of their equal ee | . ee ability. We try to give each student the basic skills of a es aa wy ay all the activities. They are tested at the conclusion of ee a ay each activity. We try to invigorate our curricula and rem] give a high priority to the excellence of health and fitness. Our athletic teams include the following: three teams of football, two teams of baseball, two teams of track, three teams of basketball, tennis, golf, two teams of swimming, and three teams of cross country. We hope to add wrestling and gymnastics in the 1964- 65 year, if approved by the district. Department Members—Seated: Mr. Frank Kocsis. Stand- ing: Mr. Robert Anderson, Mr. Carl Mayers, and Mr. Frank Porto. Department Members—Mr. Roger Potter, Mr. Emery Phil- 24 lips, and Mr. Kenneth Richter. Not pictured: Mr. Joe Stenson.

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MR. DRUM HEALTH Department Chairman Commercial Law, Business Math CURRICULUM The Business Education Department of Richmond Union High School offers students three types of majors from which to choose according to their spe- cial interests and abilities. They may choose a sec- Sue Bethel, Rosalie Hurtado, and Carolyn McGriei run off dittos on the mimeograph machine retarial, accounting, or general business major. during their Office Practice class. Those selecting the secretarial field take Business Mathematics and Typing 1 as Sophomores; Business English, Typing 2, and Stenography 1 as Juniors; and Stenography 2, Transcription, Office Practice, and Bookkeeping and Machine Calculation as Sen- iors. The accounting major requires the same courses ex- cept Bookkeeping is taken in the Junior year instead of Stenography 1, and Machine Calculation and an elective, preferably Comercial Law, in the Senior year instead of Stenography 2 and Transcription. The general business major includes Typing 1 and either Record Keeping or Business Mathematics for Sophomores, Consumer Retailing and Typing 2 for Juniors, and Bookkeeping and or Machine Calcula- tion, plus Office Practice or Clerical Training for Seniors. The general business student may also elect to take Commercial Law as a Senior student. Civil Service Examination training is given to ad- vanced secretarial students, who have opportunities to take various civil service examinations as parr of their work. As a result, many of our secretarial stu- dents receive civil service employment upon gradua- Department Members—Seated: Mr. V. D. Heath and Mrs. Agnes Neville, Business Math. Standing: Mr. tion from high school. Edward Peralsky, Consumer Retailing, Business Math; Mrs. Donna Healy, Typing 1, Business Math; Mrs. Approximately 32 percent of our students are en- Vaunee Larson, Record Keeping, Typing; Mrs. Marion Elliott, Business Math, Typing, Business English; and rolled in the Business Education Department. Mrs. Dorothy Bench, Typing, Business English. Not Pictured: Mrs. Marjorie Fjvioka, Typing 1 and 2, Con- sumer Retailing; Mrs. Lydia Hunt, Typing Retailing. Department Members—Seated: Mrs. Helen Larson, Typing 2, Stenography. Standing: Mrs. Frances Rockafellow, Consumer Retailing, Typing 1; Mrs. Dolores Durant, Typing 1, Office Practice; Mrs. Hazel Bird, Bookkeeping, Typing 1; Mr. Lonnie Robbins, Machine Calculation; Mrs. May Belfe Koether, Steno- graphy, Machine Calculation; Miss Agnes Gowen, Clerical Training, Typing 2, Office Practice. ] and 2; Mr. Louis Raun-Linde, Record Keeping, Consumer Department Members: Miss Dorrance Small, Business English, Stenography 1, and Business Math; Miss Melba O'Connell, Typing 2, Steno- graphy 1 and 2, Transcription, and Miss Hazel-Louise Rogers, Typing 2, Stenography 2, Transcription.