San Antonio College - El Alamo Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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ngllsh Department Reveals Increase Talking shop with one's ENGLISH peda- gogue was comparatively easy in 1954 when all teachers were gathered in one office. Now, a student must tap on five different office doors to find his instructor. Phenomenal growth in SAC's largest depart- ment has necessitated this increase in office space, as much as it has influenced the growth of English sections from 25 in 1954 to 93 in 1963. The faculty has also developed from four full-time English instructors in 1954 to a total of 22 full-time and one part-time instructors in the Day Division and 23 additional Evening teachers. Top, Leon Campbell checks the script as Robert Biasioli and Peggy Huber prepare to present B Fausf play with puppets to a world literature class. Left, under the watchful eye of Shakespeare, Dorothy Kearl uses the reproduction of the Globe Theater to explain to Mary Everts and Ronald Fox how dramas were staged in the Elizabethan theater. Below, James Williams, Sandra Clark, and Barbara Balough wait patiently for Professor John lgo to autograph their copies of his new book God of Gardens.

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Musiccil Comedy Moior Spring Proiect Those with a talent in acting are able to display their skill in any of the tive dramatic productions presented by the students and directed by the drama instructors during the year. Added to the presentations list this year was the first musical comedy to be sponsored at SAC called Finian's Rainbow. Tom Sawyer and The Magic Horn were staged as the two traditional children's plays of the long-term. This activity has be- come so popular with San Antonio school children that the audience has increased from 800 to 5,000 child observers. l lllli tit, i, tililiii ill'iii- it Supervising the task ot making costumes for one of the season's many plays is Mr. Carl Atkins, Speech and Drama Department chairman. Sharon Camp, Helen Kelly, and Tina Navarro follow his instructions as they design a robe for Tonight in Samarkanclf' ia Top, hammer, nails, and a saw unite thespians Josie Whitley, Bill Denton, George Vizard, Paul Abe, and Matt Tracy in set work for the Magic Horn. Below, under the direction of Bill Denton in WSAC studio, Patricia Kappmeyer turns the switch to play a favorite record. lOl

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Journalists Edit Papers, Yearbook Top, with all the inquisitiveness of an English honor student, Vivis Lemmons asks Miss Rosamond Biles, instructor of English, to explain verbal con- structions. Right, digging deeply into the stacks, Josephine Briseno is surrounded by volumes and volumes of books as she searches for term paper material. Below, one of the many library facilities available for research is the microfilm machine. Nancy Herring views pictures of past issues of periodicals for her English homework. In courses ranging from the first epic to contemporary poetry, Creative Writing, freshman Honors English, and Report Writing are enrolled 2,700 students in the Day Division alone. This development is further illustrated by the addition to the library of resource material, microfilm apparatus, record players, ancl an opaque projector. in the field of mass communications, two accredited and two terminal iournalism courses are offered. As laboratory projects students produce El Alamo yearbook, The Ranger and The Night Ranger papers. The latter is the only night school paper published by a iunior college. ,,H3E:Ei: il-I lil' .1-v-A-unzr,-:: 2g..1l