San Jon High School - El Coyote Yearbook (San Jon, NM)

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The chorus was made up of girls from all grades in High School. They learned to read music and to follow the director. Classes Mr, Masters, Ronnie, and Scott attempt- ed to solve the most popular problem ever published in THE AMERICAN MATHEMATI- CAL MONTHLY. This was only one of many kinds of problems that the class worked on. The citizenship class provided basic training in American Citizenship. The students learned that the two skills which are needed in studying any class text were reading and study,

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Delbert Bone, Jimmie Tillman, Johnny Irving, Gary Frost, and Paul Ray Morris showed that a study hall can be used for studying. It took cooperation from all stu- dents to make a study hall a place for con- centration. These freshman boys usually studied algebra and English during Mrs. Shiplet's sixth period study hall, Classes The students in Spanish class learned to read and write as well as to speak Span- ish. They leamed also that a good English background is necessary. The biology class learned that many things can be discovered by experimenting.

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The calculator and the electric type- writer are two machines which are used reg- ularly in the modern business office. All typing II students received proficiency cer- tificates as touch operators of the electric calculator, Classes In English IV Gloria Ortiz, Janie Till- man, and Larry Koons, as well as the other seniors, learned who some of the English writers were and something about their works The growth of ability to read good literature with discrimination, and the cultivation of a lifelong interest in reading for enjoyment, are major aims of the class, Since the telephone is a common instm- ment in the home and the business office, all classes took advantage of the opportunity to visit the Phonorama, They leamed what's coming in the way of telephones.