Sammamish High School - Thunderbird Yearbook (Bellevue, WA)

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Mr. Lund converses with Mrs. Liebcrg over a future recital. Mrs. Senyohl lectures on Greek tragedy. 26 . . . Gone To Stud To Learn To Seek Mr. Val Foubert passed up assign' ments and attended an Advanced Humanities' Institute at the Uni' versity of Oregon. Participants studied art, music, drama, literaf ture, history and philosophy to ex' plore ways in which these areas are interrelated and to seek new means by which these subjects could be fused into classroom teaching. Mr. james Morgan, one of our history teachers, spent a stimulatf ing summer at the UW. He asf sociated with scholars from Har' vard, Syracuse, and U.W. staff members while interpreting history. Another history teacher, Mr. 'How' ard Schmidt was given a scholar' ship by the Foundation for Eco' nomic Education to attend a sem' inar on economics in Irvington, New York. Among the counselors, Mr. Adatto was the only one from Washington state to attend the N.D.E.A. Counseling Institute in San Diego, California. Unlike these teachers, Mr. Dick Powell partif cipated in an institute, but was the instructor. The institute was the Laboratory of Radiation Biology on the U.W. campus. Mrs. Esther Arrasmith, chosen by the junior Statesman Foundation, was one of seven instructors that taught twenty 'three scholarship students for six weeks at Stanford University. Unlike Mrs. Arrasmith, some teachers became students. Along with other teachers, Miss Hilda Guldseth, Mr. Ron Andresen, and Mr. Donald Distad spent their time across the lake absorbing knowledge from the U.W. profs Mr. Wayne Connaway also spent his summer as a student. He went to seventh grade graduate school at Seattle University for eight weeks and hated every minute of it. Miss Beaudette Smith studied at the U.W. for her Masters Degree in Art. A commission to paint op art murals in McMahon Hall helped toward her degree.

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Teach rs Gone . ,. Ll! Miss Brown takes 'roll in Home Ec. Instead of touring the Pacific Northwest, Miss Roberta Brown traveled to Europe, as far north as England and as far South as Greece, for ten weeks. She explained that one thing a trip like this did for me was to make me appreciate the U.S. more and the Monday morning flag salute had a lot more meaning. Like Miss Brown, other teachers of Sammamish spent time overseas, Miss Rosanne Gostivich spent fifty per cent of her time talking with the people she met on the streets, in restaurf ants on the trains, and in parks for a deeper understanding of the U.S.S.R. during her stay in Moscow, Lenningrad, and Kiev. The National Defense Education Act Foreign Lan' guage Institute at Indiana University sponsored the group of thirty teachers. Mr, Roy Felstad spent two months in the Peace Corps in Africa and traveled home by way of Madrid, Rome, London, and Sweden. Incidentally, Mr. Felstad took a brief break from activities to marry in Tacoma. Along more academic lines, Mrs. Maxine Johnson tackled a sixtyffive page paper for her extension course from Central Washington State College.

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Mrs. Dalilberg presents German conversation to students. Mrs. McDade rushes the deadline for the Totem Talk. Again . . . . i .a . As if 255 args Mr. Biellqa waits for an answer from a Biology student. Mr. Robert Osgood spent part of his summer attending coachfclinics. He explained that the new ideas he gained from his Dartmouth advisor were to be applied in his coaching this year. Mr. Arnold Bierman also attended coachfclinics but spent a great deal of the summer hiberf natingw in his new camper. Wliile many were in the classroom and preparing for the coming year, some teachers participated in actif vities outside the classroom. When asked what he did during the sum' mer, Mr. John Stupey replied I worked as a garbateerf' However, Mr. Osgood interjected, labeling him as a sanitary engineer. Mr, Ron Bielka's summer as a semif skilled chemist for a paper com' pany paid more than a teacher's salary. Mrs. Bonnie McDade also l Mr. Miller exercises typing skills. found interests in new fields as the editor of a new magazine, Pa' cific Search. Miss Elizabeth Alma acted as governess for two boys in Quebec and tutored them in French. Other teachers worked at Longacres, built bridges and new homes. The many different jobs added to the variety of teachers summer ' activities. Most of the student body realizes these teachers are not the typical Miss Grundy or stern old man with his birch rod, but that as Mr. Knoell says, study and travel abroad, work experiences in other occupations, and contact with people of different nationalities or socio f economic levels, establishes the basis for broader understanding and contributes to enriched teach' ing. 27