Sandia High School - Crest Yearbook (Albuquerque, NM)

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n second year of existence english is XVith .1 faculty of 15 full-time and six part-time teachers, the English department claims the largest enrollment in the school. With the addition ot' a required fourth year ol' English this year members ot the de- partment have all students in the school en- rolled except those who have attended sum- mer school. Headed by Miss Lydia Strand, the de- partment offers English Il, III, and IV, speech, dramatics, creative writing, and journalism. As a result, English teachers sponsor the dramatic organizations, direct the plays, attend speech, drama, and jour- nalism meetings, and sponsor the school annual and newspaper. English teachers also teach German, largest department journalism students -lim XX'ientflxowskx. and Kay Kirlcing rhetk paper proofs while Gale Cooper and Susan Conlon type a story. Latin, French, and mathematics. 'Nedra Seliady. jack Burnside and Mary Britt rehearse a skit for a dramatics class production. Terry Poe uses hand gestures in a talk during Miss Jeanette juries speech class,

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Richard Cole gives a report in Mrs. Anita Bowers' English III class. Members of Mrs. Betty American literature. Sandia operates on double shift Going into its second year, Sandia opened in September with a split schedule. XY ith the largest enrollment in the state. students at Sandia High at- tended school in two shifts. The upperclassmen took the dawn patrol from 'QSO to 12:25 while the sopho- mores attended from 12:-15 to ig-10 pm. Bids were let and construction was started on If wing. a new classroom wing. and Manzano High. Albuquerclues sixth public high school. Relief for the overcrowding was in sight'-fnext year. Consistent with Albuquerque Public Schools' po' licy, Sandia has continued to increase graduation re- quirements. Seniors of '60 had to complete 17 hours this year, an increase ot' one over the class ol' '59, L'nderclassmen will have to earn 20 credits. Requirements for the college preparatory course include 4 years Englishg 3 years historyg 3 years mathematicsg 2 years physical educationg 5 years scienceg 2 years foreign languageg and 3 electives. Requirements for the general course of study are V f 4 years Englishg 2 years historyg 2 years mathe- maticsg 2 years scienceg 2 years physical educationg and 8 electives. Hancocks junior English class have a round-table discussion on literature of the Colonial Period in S ts

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students learn foreign languages Sue Scresse questions Steye Zendt about a French assign ment in Mrs Miller s class ,M 'erin-v-rf lJLRNlrlNN Linda Barth tells Bill Schuessler of her long dreamed of trip to Germany I0 Foreign language students learn the lan- guage. customs, dances and songs of the colorful lands which they' study' in class. Latin, French, Russian, German and Spanish are the foreign languages offered at Sandia. For the first time Russian II. German II Spanish Ill and French Ill Ire being otfercd by the school The languages classes sponsor many of the schools clubs Los Aficionados Span ish club Aurigae Aureae Latin club Russkae Obshchestyo Russian club and Ic Cercle Francais French club These organ izations sponsor danccs take trips present programs and carry on money making proy ecs DCLA Dick Childs and Mike Baca say taking Spanrsh at SHS rs more interesting when using a tape recorder , . . 4 . A v t . , , , , , , r : , . - Z x , Z c , , 4' 4 , ' . ' , , , L l ' uircrm e Kiwis il S' ,iid , 6, Q , gr , ' , 'KL J up ,. V 3,4 , f' QM Q , MJ, oN' fl 'TJ .1.'.,,. , 1' A if, 4, Y f Lx -az. . . f we .,f'- 'Ks 1 , ' Y 4 J H , s ' V' '4' 31 . f' l I . A ' 1 -