Sierra High School - Oracle Yearbook (Whittier, CA)

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Miss Deanna Daly Department Chairman Senior Homemaking Homemaking ll Mrs. Deanna Kriger Art I Social Studies I Mr. Robert Kneen Special Education Fish and Game Club Believing that everyone has a right to The best possible education, The district has Tak- en pains To provide special facilities- for visually handi- capped students in the area. At Sierra, a resource room has been outfitted with such spe- cialized equipment as record- ed books and braille writers. Special instructor, Mr. Robert Kneen, spends several hours each day in the workroom aiding students with difficult assignments and in adminis- tering tests. irc ,lifts As the working hours ot The average Amer- ican becomes less and less, The need for con- structive leisure Time activities increases. Courses in the tine arts help people to learn about, and To develop new ways to till Their ever increasing nonworking hours. Sierra's Fine Arts Department has Three maior divisions, art, which includes classes in drawing, painting, mosaics, ceramics, and commercial art, music, both vocal and instru- mental, and dramatics and speech. Every year Sierra art students enter and win prizes in several Southern Californian contests, The music classes annually present a Christmas assembly and a Spring Concert, while the Drama Depart- ment presents Two major productions a year, and a night of one act plays each semester. Ch'-Ulf Mrs. Frances Heussenstamm English I Department Chairman Madrigals An Mr, Daniel swift A Club Drama Speech Masquers Mr. William Laverly Architectural Drawing Mechanical Drawing Student Government Mr. Paul Lugo Photography Handicrafts Photography Club Mrs. .Iorine Kline Homemaking Sue-ettes Mrs. Sally Wilcox Homemaking English I F.H.A. Home Sw am ks Developing the wide range ot skills essential to successful homemakers is the main function of the Home Economics Department. During one school year each class studies a section ot foods, clothing, home decoration, child development, and budgeting. During the second semester, several girls gain valuable first-hand experience in child training, when a special pre-school program is held where faculty members bring their nursery-school age children for supervised activities. Mr. William Grgurich Mechanical Drawing Welding Senior Math

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Efzgli I1 Mrs. Claire Danneskiold English I Modern Literature Department Chairman The men and women of Sierra's English staff teach Their students To Think and write critically. This entails a Thorough study of grammar, com- position, and The great works of liter- ature. A major change in The olepart- ment This year was The separation of The English and social siuolies classes on The Freshman and Soph- omore levels, thereby insuring a more Thorough coverage of The sub- ject matter in each area. Mrs. Elaine Wade Senior English Typing l Senior Class Mr. Richard Edwards English ll Social Studies I International Club Miss Marilyn Kal-ll English I Journalism Mr. Selden Cummings Senior English English lll Senior Class Mr. Harold Frey Senior English English ll German I Mr. Arthur Ellish English I Social Problems Government Mr. Robert Laidlaw English II Social Studies I Freshman Class News Staff Mr. Richard B. Smilh U.S. History English III Yearbook Staff Miss Mary Ryan English ll English Ill Girls' League

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,71rdustrial,4rf.s' To help fill the ever-growing demand of our society for trained craftsmen, the IA Department offers instruc- tion in the areas in most demand by industry, The per- sonnel of this department are ever alert to the most recent advances in equipment and techniques so that they can provide better training for the youth of Sierra. Mr. Charles Harris Department Chairman Woodshop Mr. Rudolph Robinson Auto Vocational Auto Vocational Auto Club Mr. Charles McDonough Spanish l Latin l, Il Mr. Karl Woodson Auto Machine Shop Welding Mr. Don Poucher Machine Shop Mechanical Drawing Varsity Club Mr. Royal Meservy Zrrrzyrz language mi As the world grows smaller because of improved means of transportation and communication, it becomes essential that people of the world have a greater under- standing of each other. Sierra's Foreign Language De- partment strives to give students the basic skills of French, Spanish, Latin, and German, and therefore prepare them for any future communications with people of different lanols. Mrs. Mary Avilez Department Chairman Spanish C.S.F. French I Mr. Erlend Wilson French French Club Mr. Tom Whitby Spanish Spanish Club Mrs. Barbara Sanlisteban Spanish Spanish Club