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

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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.

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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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COMMERCIAL STUDIES MRS. .ANGELINA ANTINORI Typing MR. HARRY BENSON D.C.T. Miss ROSALIE LAsTRA Typing, Sfooirtlaand Mus. OLGA SPoTo Bookkerping, Shorthand Miss RUTH WATSON Art, History After the hunt and peck Tommy decided to take a leap into typing, too. Tommy, not being one to mind his own business, next journeyed to the Commercial department Where he found an unusual, but not new idea being employed, by which prospective members of the business world get a Hrst hand observation while still in high school. By registering for Diversined Cooperative Training, Jefferson students attend school in the morning and in the afternoon get experience and pay working for Tampa merchants. Mr. Harry Benson sees that a variety of jobs are available for the juniors and seniors who take D.C.T. Tommy also stopped oif in typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping classes. Mrs. Olga Spoto, who teaches the latter two this year, had the headaches of a senior homeroom to contend with during the fall semester. In room 307 the last station on his Teacher Tour, Tommy spent many a happy hour posing for annual artist Phil Rosseter while Mrs. Claribel Geraci, who replaced Miss Watson as art instructor at mid-term, prepared her entries for the state fair and national art contest. But finally Phil was through and Tommy was free to go and meet all the freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors. ART Tommy poses for Annual artist, Phil Rosseter, while Nelson Niccoletto and Bobbie Harris look on. +3 16 R+