Rock Port High School - Bluejay Yearbook (Rock Port, MO)

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History This year's Freshman history classes were headed by Mr. William Curry, above left. Mr. Curry attained a Bachelor of Arts degree from Tarkio College and student taught at R. P. H. last year. Pictured above is one of Mr. Curry's Freshman Classes as they la- bor on their studies. They studied American history from 1776 until 1865 Besides history, Mr. Curry also taught contemporary issues. A group of stu- dents from the class are shown at left as they discuss their latest issue of Newsweek magazine. Each student kept a copy of Newsweek and used it as his text,

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History Miss Connie Griffin, B.A. , Tarkio College, was in command of three history classes this year: Sociology, World History, and World Geography. The pictures above show the World Geography classes reading and listening to classmates term papers. Middle right, Miss Griffin seems to be a prisoner in her own room. The World History class redecorated the room in early dungeon. At right Ann Eilers and Kathy Schaffner admire collages consisting of happenings in today's society. This project was sponsored by the So- ciology class. Other activities of the history classes included: World War l trials by the World History classes, geography projects, and a political pool gi- ven by the Sociology class.

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English and Speech Clockwise from picture at right: Mrs. Barbara Marquart received her A. B. degree from Central Methodist College. She teaches freshman and sophomore language arts. Mrs. Betty Salfrank shown with her Friday Delight received her A. B. from Tarkio College and her M.A. degree from NWMSC at Maryville. She teaches junior and senior lan- guage arts and speech. The Littlest Angel was presented by the speech class to the grade school during the Christ- mas season. One of the impressive bulletin boards in the English department was displayed in Mrs. Marquart's room. Some students wondered if the skull and crossbones was supponsed to represent their feelings about the class. Mrs. Salfrank is shown helping a difficult student with an assignment or is she helping a student with a difficult as- signment? ta .QL rr-mu. nun-nn bt C1129 Swelling SQH5 'Wie Lhssfwm?l ,M 'al J'