Shasta High School - Daisy Yearbook (Redding, CA)

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CCMMERCIAL The business education department is represented by seven instructors: Mr. Burt, bookkeeping and typingg Miss Hocking, stenography, office practice, and typingg Mr. Riley, typing and general businessg Mrs. Twaddle, merchandising, stenography, and placement serviceg Miss Varesio, typing and general busi- ness: and Mr. Wagner, stenography, selling, and general business. Vocational training offered includes four Helds: stenographic, bookkeeping, selling, and clerical. Stenographic training and sales training are highlighted by on-the-job training in which some seventy to eighty students combine downtown training with classroom work. job placement under Mrs. Twaddle has been responsible for placing over three hundred students on various jobs during the school year. MR. RONALD WAGNER Department Head

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NIR. V'Al.'l'ER UIMMICK Department Head R SCIENCE The science department at Shasta offers six interesting courses which are as follows: general science, biology, chemistry, gen- eral physics, and physiology and anatomy. Teachers in this department are Mr. Blizzard, Miss Cotton, Mr. Dancer, Mr. Dimmick, Mrs. Henninger, and Mr. Spencer. In order to graduate, the student must have had one year of a laboratory science. They may choose between chemistry, physics, or biology. Physics is the more advanced and seniors only are eligible for this course. General science, a course open to freshmen only, is Ll preview to all sciences. Physiology and anatomy is a study of the workings of the human body. Ir is an essential course to students going on to medical or nursing careers.

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MR. CLARK MORFORIJ Department Head SOCIAL STUDIES The social studies department is to help our students to be- come better citizens. The various subjects enable us to appre- ciate our heritage, to better understand today's problems and to solve them by means of past experiences. Mr. jackson, Mrs. Thatcher, Mr. Gregg, Miss Georgas, and Mr. Grush teach Citizenship I and IV classes. Citizenship I is an orientation course for freshmen and Citizenship IV is a senior problems course which h economic problems. Mr. history and Civics which is a required course for juniors. The faculty members in this department hope that their students will learn to live more democratically and to believe in and practice our way of life-Democracy. , emp asizes civic, social, and C. Morford, Mr. Marvin, and Miss Jessen teach U.S.