Richmond High School - Shield Yearbook (Richmond, CA)

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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.

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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. MERLE RANDALL Department Chairman CURRICULUM More new mathematics has been dis- covered since World War II than in all prior history. Computers and auto- mation have changed and will con- tinue to change the occupational and educational needs for all types of stu- dents. Our mathematics courses have been modernized to fit into the present needs of our society. College preparatory students take all or part of a five-year sequence of courses which includes algebra 1, ge- ometry, algebra 2, trigonometry, math analysis, and analytic geometry. Trade and industrial students take industrial mathematics and parts of the college- prep sequence. Others take courses in practical and general mathematics to DEPARTMENT MEMBERS—Seated: Mr. Merie Randall, Trig-Math, Algebra 2, Industrial Math. First Row: satisfy their individual needs. Mr. Al Roeder, General Math 1, General Math 2, and Record Keeping; Mrs. Leslie Dickinson, Business Math, Geometry, and Algebra 1; Miss Ester Tremaine, General Math 1 and 2, Practical Math; and Mr. Kenneth Wiley, Analytics, Geometry, and Algebra 1. Second Row: Mr. Vernon Youngquist, Industrial Math, and Geometry; Mr. Jonathan Tweedie, Basic Math, Industrial Math, and General Math; and Miss Barbara Willis, Algebra 2, Geometry, and General Math 2. In addition to class work, students participate in problem solving pro- grams and a national mathematics contest. ng: Mr. th; Mrs. ish; and 2, Con- onsumer Miss Barbara Willis shows Pat Rawlins and David Strand the correct way to work a geometry problem. Terry Sadler finds the answer to a square root problem 27 It takes two, Lois Lade and Leonard Forfang, to find an for Miss Esther Tremaine. answer to Mr. Kenneth Wiley’s analytic problem.