Thomas Jefferson High School - Monticello Yearbook (Tampa, FL)

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l M U S I C Mlss ELEANOR Fiske Music Mks. ELSIE HALL English E5 Glee Club 115-:J-,:1a5:.awsw-f ,J ne. FOREIGN LANGUAGES Tommyls love for music led him to meet the sponso-rs of many of our Variety assembly programs-Miss Eleanor Fiske, band and orchestra director, and Mrs. Elsie Hall, glee club teacher. The latter has had the many responsibilities of a senior class, while Miss Fiske, who joined the faculty roster in September, is also sponsor for the R.O.T.C. band. Tommy felt right at home in foreign languages for it was in room 211, where Latin students learn of Caesar, that he was born. Occupying the teacher's desk in this hub of jefferson activity is Mrs. Verta Cox, annual sponsor. For a small person she really packs a wallop, and no amount of credit given her for many hours of hard work, is undue. Another of our active faculty members who really lives up to her name is Mrs. Winifred K. Lively. She makes high school life' more enjoyable by scheduling and arranging our assembly programs, many of which contain skits presented by her own. speech classes. Tommy also enjoyed his visit with Senor Rickey Zabaldo who has made room 316 one of the most attractive in the building by having students in his Spanish classes paint colorful fiesta murals on the walls. MRS. VERTA Cox Latin, English Mas. WINIFRED LIVELY Sjmnisla, Speech MR. RICHARD ZABALDO Sllalzislo Spanish students enjoy their classes with Senor Zabaldo. if 14 Some of the girls in the Glee Club entertain Tommy with a song.

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Mxss ESTELLE BUTLER Algebra Miss MARY MORTELLARO Algebra Nor SHOWN MRS. IRENE SPARKMAN Geometry, Solid Geom- etry, Trigo- nometry, ami' Algebra. Even as a spirit Tommy was not immune to ualgebranitis' and in orts to find out the values of X and y he met one of the most teachers at Jefferson Miss Mary Mortellaro. As a January class sponsor she worked out plans for the class banquet, corn- exercises and Baccalaureate service. But she really started when she agreed to help direct the mid-term class play, for sooner was that successful three-act comedy presented than she was by June graduates to direct theirs. All this and cheerleaders, too for this voung and energetic teacher also leads our vocal Dragons. And just to make sure that these vocal Dragons coniine their talents to athletic games and assemblies there is Miss Estelle Butler head of MATHEMATICS 1 il -e E .i Look what happened when Marcia Burris tried to teach Tommy some Algebra. our Traffic system. The chief sees that traffic flows smoothly and quietly in the halls. During class shifts she can be seen dashing around to wherever there is a report of a jam or congestion. Tommy got sent to the board by our camera shy Georgia Geometrician, Mrs. Irene Sparkman. A strep throat kept her home in bed for three weeks but still she found time for her senior class and for her duties as fair work chairman. On his next stop-Home Economics-Tommy caught Mrs. Frances Hawkins hiding behind her apron strings. She takes time out from cooking and sewing to direct Red Cross drives at jefferson. HOME ECONOMICS Mus. FRANCES HAWKINS Cooking, Sewing ' MRS. CORA Ann Dorothy, and jo Ann put Tommy in a stew in Home Economics. SHEPPARD Cooking, Sewing

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SHOP MR. JAMES BELIHAN Shop Tommy screamed for help when the boys in the shop put the electric saw to work. SGT' BEN PARRISH R.O.T.C. PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND R.O.T.C. To Tommy the idea of personally teaching every girl in school sounded like pure heaven, but after a day in the female physical education department, he decided that it takes a lot of patience, pep, and vitality. He also decided that Miss W'ilma Hankins fills the bill for even though she handles some five hundred girls, she still has energy left for her job as adviser for the Pan American Club and Pep Squad. In the male department, Tommy quickly made friends with coaches Dick Spoto and Sam Alfieri. Our coach and assistant coach are really two grand individuals and they have done much in making Jefferson so quickly a threat on any athletic Held. Under their direction our eleven ended a successful gridiron season in the upper bracket of the Big Ten and, in basketball, our cagers Won their first crown. Tommy says this is just a sample of bigger and better things to come through the efforts of the best coaching staff in the city. Those boys who did not take physical ed. spend third period in R.O.T.C. with Sgt. Ben Parrish. There among other things they learn how to handle a rifle and they learned their lessons so well this year that the team won national honors! Miss WILMA I-IANKINS Girls' Physical Ed. MR. SAM ALPIERI Assistant Couch MR. DICK SPOTO Hmm' Coach It looks like a big game for girls in Physical Ed.