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

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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

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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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COACH CLARENCE UNDERWOOD has a dual job at TJ. He is the chairman of the Boys' Physical Education Department and head coach of the Yellow ,Iacket football team. Developing abilities and keeping fit are part of every boy's education at TJ. Through a varied program of exer- cises and sports they are trained in many areas of profi- ciency. The health course this year presented the facts about alcohol and narcotics and stressed their harmful effects on the body. Boys, BE. Department Produces Athletes DRIVER EDUCATION IS one answer to the problem of traffic safety, and Coach Bentley Jones is the man responsible for teaching this important course to TJ students. FOOTBALL IS A year-round topic of discussion in the Boys' P.E. Department. Coach Francis Hill explains a new play to Coaches Rodney Pirtle, Marvin Kunkel, Bob Billings, Henry Clark, and Howard Tippett. 26