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

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SHOP Mr McAIister has done a fine job in 'nstructing the shop classes These lasses are composed of students who 'Jre interested an learning about the fnany things that can be made out of lvood and metals They learn how to carve and put together many things from just n or more pieces of metal ' The many machines enable the stu ents to make things which may be used n or about the home Thev also learn Ow to describe the many tyoes of ma erials with which they work We at Jef Person offer three years of shoo in which he students may progress each year by experience For many shoo brings out the skill and abilitv to work with wood and metal It may encourage students to continue in this field as a line of work For others shoo may interest them as a hobby Eugene Baker making a bowl on the lathe machine V HOMEMAKING The main purpose of Homemaking is to give the students who are taking ad- vantage of this course a better under- standing of their responsibilities of keep- ing a home for her family in the future. Among the many things which are taught to the students are cooking sew- ing and how to keep a budget of her expenses in maintaining a home in good order. The students have several days in which they are in the classroom and the remainder of the week they spend in the kitchen where they are given instructions by Mrs, Heaton, our Homemaking teach- er, on how to prepare different kinds of foods. They also spend time with the sewing machines making clothes or items for the home. Left to right: Carmen Barja and Geraldine Anton are 1-M f 4 busily preparing some cookies for the oven.

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SCIENCE We are proud of our Science De- partment at Jefferson, One of our most interesting fields of science, Physics, is taught by Mr, Rosete This course is composed of stu- dents with a B or better average in math and also with four years' background in other fields of math, ln order to get a deeper understand- ing and to go into the subject more thoroughly, this class meets on Thursdays and Fridays at eight o'clock in the morning 15 'Y' XE- The chemistry classes have a new teacher this year, Mr. Moradiellos. In this course we learn about the ele- ments of nature and its chemical and physical changes. We also study formulas and equations which are connected with the many various ele- ments, some of which were made by man, Other science courses offered in Jefferson are: Biology I, Biology ll and Advanced Science, Bill Moyer and Gloria Saguc smile happily at the results of the Physics experiment. Left to right: Caesar Rivera, Martha Leto, Manuel Balserio, Arthur Alfanador, and Sam Garcia work diligently cn an experiment on oxidation and reductio gf N- 3 his lv 1, I1

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SHORTHAND faq' Preparung for theur future careers as secretarues or for theur own oersonal use Shorthand us essentual to hugh school XJ! students Durung the furst vear of Shorthand the T' rules and fundamentals are learned They do not go too deeply unto ductatuon but concentrate on readung and wrutung Homework us guven douly to out unto proc tuce what the student has learned un class After takung one year of Shorthand most students go unto a second year course Durung thus year students have a good background and more us expected from them Skullbuuldung transcrubung and ductatuon are the maun objectuyes of thus year Sandra Noruega ductates to Grace Agluano to help her umprove her shorthand skull TYPING The opportunutues offered un thus course are very rewardung Wuth the abul uty to learn typung you also become ac quaunted wuth the varuous Darts of a type wruter Besudes learnung the maun factors of typung you learn many umportant facts whuch wull assust a student un the busuness world The two maun elements necessary to be a good tyoust are control and concen tratuon The oossessuon of one or the other alone cannot guve you the necessary tool to be a good typust but the combuned force of both control and concentratuon wuth the wull to learn wull promuse good results un your future as a tyoust One year of tvoung us offered to stu dents who are Dlannung to go on to col lege Thus year of tvoung wull umprove theur grades and Dossubly help them un gettung a part tume uob whule un college 4 lrcnc Varon concentrates on takung a tumed wrutung 18 u 1 , '4 ? ' -x :I x I 1 . . .I uu HHWM. fww ' ' ' I Q , . . ' . 957. u U 1 . L O , I . , K ox f-1 . .f . . In I - U , , u - - 5 J I - u u . . V g if M., W . . . . u u