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

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t s F5133 lll! G ' 5 ' 3' il? u'i2'zo'R',gau aszsva -a- TODAY ls. 1 A immiiiiill Today is . . . Monday-'The second day of 'lhe weelc, 'fol- lowing Sunday.' English reachers Joanne Loy and Lorelei Roberfs insisl' +ha+ Webs'I'er's definirion has failed fo cap- fure +he word's +rue meaning. y f r ,T isi siiii siss i H s noi' a podium, you lcnolheadsg i+'s a lecfern . . . Now gel sei' for a l0,000 word assignment growls English feacher William Bell lll 'lo one of his cullurally depraved classes. The Literary Horizon Ars. Erma Haley smiles and heads for 'he door on a rypical Friday aflernoon. n addilion +o her regular English classes, vlrs. Haley 'leaches Poly's only crealive vri+ing class. Then The lrid said, 'Oh, yeah, now I remember. Brel' Harle was +he guy +ha'l won four'I'een for lhe Orioles in '5ll' . . . Miss Rufh Elwell and Mr. Roberl Mcclinfoclc compare fheir hardships in reaching American li+era'rure. ....., 4' Z., ..- 'Q'- N , --- ' lk-f' awk W Mi E wafer.. in

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'N km ,kg Z'- Halloa, 'I'har! Bring ups a jug of whiskey insianfan- eously, or expecl' fo be ieefofally chawed up! Lif- era'rure and composifion feacher Alice Brekke lhinks fhal' she has found a quoie fha? will inferesf her s+uden+s in American lirerafure. ,ll E ' iliii 5 I. i S H -dw. 1-'Us Miss May Henry, head of 'rhe English deparimenf, pauses airer a refreshing break in ihe smoke-filled room where Poly English feachers 'foriify fhemselves for upcoming boufs wi+h Kinesics or Keafs or kifsch. Nor only do our English 'leachers have 'ihe difficull' rask of 'reaching us lo speak correclly, buf fhey also do Their besi +o make us paragons of cuH'ure. Affer felling us +hal' a foolish consis+ency is ihe hobgoblin of liHle minds, 'rhey say 'lhal' com- ma blunders, and dang. mods. and preps., are fhings up wi+h which 'rhey will noi pu+. Which only proves rhai Emerson was righf. Special educa'I'ion 'reacher Mrs. Elinore Saske and reading reacher Mrs. Murlene Bigelow are aboul' ready fo send up an S.O.S. 'ro fhe audio-visual deparlmenf. E Whaf do all English leachers have in common wirh rhe Hemingway code hero? Mrs. Roberfa Adams, leacher of English, has found 'rhe an swer. I6

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- Qolionol Miss Bonifa Ferrin and Mrs. Sarah Varnell, 'lwo of fhe 'repeolidg mosf rafional women on Poly's faculiy, 'lake a break 'lo , commune wi+h Descarles. Wi+h Mrs. Varnell ai' Hs head, fhe ma+h deparl- menl inrroduced us fo such s+range phenomena as logarirhmic funcfions and eccenlric manrissas. Alrhough we were 'rhrea+ened by nega+ive slopes and perpendicular permu+a+ions, our mafh 'reach- ers led us +hrough mazes of +rapezoids and 'fri- angles +0 a knowledge of numbers which will serve us well. The Quotients and Maih ieachers Mead Camp and Donald Rowe are serving sfu- H s noi unusual for marh 'Teachers like Mr. Dennis l loclges denf Sue Rifzau a slice of pi a la lrig. and Mr. David Blgbee To go off on a langenf righf in I8 'ihe middle of class.