Thomas Jefferson High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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Practical Skills Contribut Teaching skills that will be useful after graduation is a major goal of three departments-Homemaking, Industrial Arts, and Business. Through working on group and indi- vidual projects, students develop self-reliance and resource- fulness in meeting practical situations and attain habits of orderliness and efficiency in completing tasks. FASHION MAGAZINES ARE valuable sources for ideas and styles in the clothing classes taught by Mrs. Janis Lindemann and Miss Sheila Scott. THE VOCABULARY OF the business world is important knowledge to a DE student. Mrs. Dell Hille, DE teacher, discusses the meaning of words used in retail merchandis- LEAVING HER OFFICE is Mrs. Pat Reed head of the Home Economics Department. Mrs Reed teaches three classes in foods. ing. 24

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MR JACK BOTTOMS, choir director, and Mr John Badgett, band director, survey lines of seniors practicing for gradua- exercises. Both the band and the choir lose good members in June Music, Literature Enrich TJ Books and magazines of all de- scriptions, paintings and other art forms, instrumental and vocal mu- sic-all these enrich the lives of TJ students and faculty. The li- brary furnishes information on numerous subjects of interest to students struggling with research papers, as well as books of fic- tion, poetry, and drama. Art classes, contests, and exhibits en- able students to develop their tal- ents and display their work. Mu- sic, both vocal and instrumental, provides the school and commu- nity with programs of entertain- ment, such asithe band's half-time maneuvers, and inspiration, such as the choral departmenfs Christ- mas concert. MR. ROGER RUSSELL, art teacher, shows his class one of the paintings to be sub- mitted in a contest. Though art is his pri- mary interest, Mr. Russell also teaches an English class. MRS. MARCELLE PITMAN, head librarian, and Mrs. .lean Manning, librarian, face the prospect of filling new book- cases bought to contain the many volumes in TJ's grow- ing library. 23

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To Total Education MR. W. G. JONES, head of the Industrial Arts Department, checks over a particular aspect of a current project. Many important services are performed by the shop classesg for example, student directories and football programs are printed by the boys in print- shop. MR. GENE JACKSON, printshop teacher, demonstrates some of his equipment to Mr. Hugh Shaw, Mr. Marvin Cichowski, and Mr. Leland Kay. Mr. Shaw teaches mechanical drawing and metalshopg Mr. Cichowski, mechanical drawingg Mr. Kay, woodshop. Knowledge acquired in these classes will be valuable to boys long after graduation. GRADING PAPERS AND checking book numbers are necessary jobs for Miss Eola Gunstream, chairman of the Business Education Department. Miss Gunstream teaches shorthand in addition to her supervisory duties. THE TYPEWRITER IS the subject of a discussion among TJ busi- ness teachers. Varied commercial courses are taught by the follow- ing: Mrs. Linda Bentley, typing and business communicationsg Mr. Rex Copeland, general business and typingg Mrs. Betty Cowan, typ- ing: Mr. P. T. Reynolds, bookkeeping and typingg and .Mrs. Mable Swanzy, shorthand and typing. 25