Shasta High School - Daisy Yearbook (Redding, CA)

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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.

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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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ENGLISH The English department is one of the largest departments in the school since English is a required subject in the fresh- man, sophomore, and junior years. The courses oflered are not only the regular English classes, but include vocabulary, speech, dramatics, and journalism. Eng- llh ' ' ' ' ' is I and ll cover a wide field of literature, composition, and grammar. English Ill concentrates on American literature, and English literature and grammar are studied in English IV. l Remedia English is offered to senior students who fail . . l . . , ' . f .' ed to pass the junior English examination. The department faculty are Mrs. Nvortley, Mr. Henninger, Miss Clark, Miss Fish, Mr. Hamlin, Mrs. Moody, Mrs. Gill, Miss Leak, Mr. Mann, Mr. Marvin, Mrs. Padgett, Mrs. Love, 7 Miss N aresio, Mr. Haakc, and Mr. Grush. MRS. ELSIE WORTLEX Department Head