Santa Monica High School - Nautilus Yearbook (Santa Monica, CA)

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XVhat's your major - social studies, art, shop, math, science? Sam O. High has a varied curriculum from which to choose. But whatever the course of study he chooses, Sam may be sure that it is the result of planning, trying out, culling, and re-organ- izing, always with the idea that if it is to be a good one, the curriculum must meet the needs of the individuals who make up the student body of Samohi. Thus a good curriculum is a dynamic thing, needing constant revision and improvement. This means that faculty members must be or- ganized to work together within their own departments, under the guidance of an ap- pointed chairman, and that each chairman must work with every other chairman in order to achieve an over-all coordination of each specialized group. Here We present these department chair- men and the faculty members of Samohi - the people who try to lead the student to the threshold of his own mind. The Vike's Inn and a cup of coffee-a moment of relaxation for Mrs. Quinn of the commercial department as she listens to mathematician CraWford's famous puns. Schedules of athletic events, plans for interclass tournaments, orders for equipment-these are only a few of the items which absorb the attention of Mrs. Blankenship and Mr. Mishler, who head the activities for the girls' and boys' physical education program at Samohi.

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Facult And they said, Speak to us of Teaching. And he said: The teacher . . . gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith . . . If hs is indeed Wise he dives .not bid you enter Cooperation is the keynote of a smoothly functioning the hgugg of his Wigdgm, school, thus department chairmen Miss Brenneman, home economics, Mr. Kennedy, English, and Mrs. But rather leads you to the threshold of your Roberts, art, compare notes on their activities. own mind . . . For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another many tions of the seventy-five varied personalities which compose the faculty of Santa Monica High School, SO Spoke The Prophet many years ago' for the true function of the real teacher is not con- But he might well have been defining the func- fined to time nor to space. Their duties as department chairmen keep them on their toes during the day, but they still seem happy. Here We find Mr. Jacka, industrial arts, Miss Bingham, social studies, Miss Bickford, language, and Mr. Browns- berger, science, snatching a minute of informal talk before attending a meeting.

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Mr. Melvin Sevland, physical education, Mr. George E. Tichenor and Mr. Vincent Shutt, mathematics, Mr. Porter I. Leach, physical education, Mr. Colin C. Petrie and Mrs. Jeannette Friedman, mathematics, Mrs. Kay Crawford and Mrs. Inez Lang, physical education, Mr. William J. Lee, mathematics. Mr. Phillip J. Ackley, woodshop, Mrs. Betty Jane Lawson, home economics, Mr. A. M. Natvig, com- mercial, Mr. George Stewart, drafting, Mr. F. Maynard Landstrom, commercial, Dr. Edmund E. Evans English, Mr. Robert M. McCarter, auto shop, Mrs. Catherine Aliberti, commercial. Fam lt 1