Riverside Polytechnic High School - Koala Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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MRS. POLLY HANNAH tells her sociology classes How to be a teenage . . . Werewolf? MR. EARLE GREEN, prominent author, lecturer, and social stud- ies teacher, tries to think of some questions to spring on his Ameri- can institutions class. Oh, rats! Now I won ' t graduate, groans MR. KELLY ADAMS, oppressed social studies teacher, as MR. GERALD MESSNER, English and Social studies teach- er, gives some twenty demerits for insolence. MR. MESSNER ' S defense: 1 warned him. Equipped with a smile and a knowledge of English and history, MRS. LORAINE THOMAS diffused learning among her students. Hey, who drank all the coffee? queries MR. WILLIAM T. JAMES, h ' story teacher and commission advisor. Don ' t worry, Mr. James, there ' s a drinking fountain down- stairs. A strong background was MR. JACK SMITH notices that MR. CHARLES SHEWMAN (who claims he can read) is trying to do it the hard way. Meanwhile MR. HENRY SEVALY peers into the future. No one can say that Poly ' s social studies teachers aren ' t completely sane, normal people. Ah, the benign smiles of English teachers JOSEPH SLOTKIN and HOWARD HOUGH when a student finally learns the eight parts of speech, as if to say, Well, he firally made it, didn ' t he? (

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Supervised by MR. DONALD WILCOX, veteran Ameri- can history teacher, MR. ROBERT McCLlNTOCK and Mils CAROLYN McCULLOCH, twro cdditions to the Engl-sh department, plan their assignments for the first qucTtcr. M ss McCulloch, ir tern teacher this year, was on;e editor of the KOALA. first essential Pointing out England on the map. MRS. VESTA FAIRBAIRN holds fond remembrances of Chaucer. Milton, and Keats. Do you think she might be an English teacher? MR. WILLIAM BELL III, one of our most suave and cultured English teachers, uses his Marine concentration to drop the coin into the small cup in the jar. (His contribution: the photogra- pher ' s penny.) No, let me shde dov n first! ejaculates MRS. NANCY McAL- LISTER as she not-so-gently tugs at MRS. PATRICIA EDWARDS. Through it all, MISS PATRICIA HENRY maintains her composure, content to await her turn. (Even English teachers have fun.) Always standing by, ready ;o save her English students from drowning in a flood of grammati- cal errors, MRS. THELMA PAT- TERSON raised the spirit of the student body. English teachers MISS ALICE HEDDEN and MISS ANNE BOWERS spend their coffee breaks with such pleasant pastimes as reading Prometheus Unbound or Para- dise Lost. 15

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Mh, JOSEPH LEUENBERGER, DR. REMO ROSSI, and MISS DELIA LOPEZ remark about a certain scooter, while MR. WILbUR BOOTH feigns indifference. Of course, Spanish teachers never gossip. as imperative MISS MARGARET A. FINLEY and MISS GLADYS GILBERT try to show MR. LOUIS LIST how superior Cicero and Virgil are to Cervantes. As one might guess, the ladies teach Latin, while Mr. List teaches Spanish. MISS GERDA SCHULZE shows modern language student Linda Paul how a Spanish Miss asks a Frenchman if he speaks German. 17