Santa Barbara High School - Olive and Gold Yearbook (Santa Barbara, CA)

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School opened on September 16, and 77 teachers faced the task of training 1370 students with a wide range of abilities, backgrounds, interests, and goals to live useful, satisfying lives in an atomic era. To meet the challenge of individual differences, Santa Barbara High School has long offered a great variety of courses in its thirteen departments. This year, as another step in this direction, students were asked to plan their work in one of four major fields-pre-professional, general and continuation, practical and fine arts, or business and trade prepar- atory-the choice depending upon their career plans and ability. A they put our energze' N r t LOLA SCOTT ALTU Home Economics JEAN APPLEGATE English MARY ARBOGAST English MARY S. BAKER English EDNA BECK Swimming MARGUERITE BLAI' Spanish Department Chairman MINA BOONE Commercial HENRY BRUBECK Instrumental Music RUBIE BURTON English 3 Broadcasting ARDIS CARTER Vocak Musicg 0 Theory ppreciation Department Chairman ounse mg I Work Supervision Military Training DOROTHY COTTON Physical Education Counseling HAROLD COUSE Social Studies I. CLQYTONI CLARK MXSGT. HARRY COPP The new school year brought new administrators new teachers, and new courses. Mr. Douglas White took up residence in the vice-principal's office, while Mr. William Kircher made himself at home behind the registrar's desk. Classes in vocational and non- vocational agriculture, offered this year for the first time, were taught by a newcomer, Mr. Warren Reed, and a class to give training to students having special needs was introduced by Mr. Oscar Trautz, who, though new to the high school, had taught for several years in other Santa Barbara schools. D 12 U

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their plans revolved about our needs Responsible for coordinating the move- ments of all the electrons which revolved around Santa Barbara High School this year were our chief administrators, lVIr. Harvey Holt, principal, lllr. Douglas White, vice-principal, and bliss Frances Gower, dean of girls. To our principal fell a variety of major public relations and school executive duties. ln charge of inter- nal affairs, the vice-principal also advised the Associated Student Body, while the dean of girls handled girls' problems, ad- vised the Girls' League, and headed the . hol r.h' committee. gc a S lp MISS FRANCES A. GOWER MR. DOUGLAS WHITE Dean of Girls Vice-Princilml TO THE CLASS OF 1953: All the staff and students of Santa Barbara High School congratulate you on this, your graduation. Our best wishes for a happy and successful future go with you as you enter new fields of study and work. Because of the training that your parents, your schools, and your community have made possible, you can and will, we are sure, make many contributions to the Hner life. There are homes to make, and you can make them strong and loyal. There are better machines, bridges, and buildings to be built, and you will help build them. There is the limitless force of our atomic power in this, the new atomic era, for you to direct and use for man's ultimate good. There is a God to seek and find, so that with mind and heart you can strive for all the truly worthwhile things in life. So as you leave the campus of Santa Barbara High School for work and more learning, remember that the spirit and the hne traditions of the school will con- tinue to grow through the loyalties you build in home, school, church, and country. HARVEY J. HOLT Principal MR. HARVEY J. HOLT Principal Conferring on tlre business affairs of SBHS are Registrar VVilliam Kircher, in charge of school records and tiles, Mr. John Greene, head counselor, and Mr. Louis Tsoutsouvas. business manager,

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VVll.l.lAM CROVV Physical Education l'Al,'l, VV. DAVIDSON Social Studias Acting Department Head M A Y ll El.l.E li. DA Y I S l.iln'arian n motion. . . CLINTON V, DENMAN Driver Training: Gardening Faculty Cafeteria Manager f2ER'l'Rl7DE Dll'KERSUN English llAR0l.D DIERliNFlE1.D Sncial Studie-sg ftkmuttseliiig C'nntinuattun Direetnr ,,......- Counselors' nflices were busy places as students sought help in plaitttmg programs. checking grarluatton requirements, and selecting a college or a vocation. HAROLD A. FOSTER VVoodw0rk Department llead E'l'llEl. GEORGE Sucial Studies JOHN S. GRI-Il-INE llezul Counselor Ill-IN E ll.-XLT, f4UII1Il'll'!'ClZll VV,-Kl.lCS IIUIJSRUOK Social Studies lireiivlig Fnu A survey of recreational facilities in Santa Barbara was made hy Mr. lnuses Problems of American Democracy class as part of a special national Citizenship Education Project.