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

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WISDOM. SKILL NECESSARY MR. HOBART WARD AdminTsHaHve Assimm B.A.. Norm Texas sme M.A. Peabody CoHege wss LOUISE ERWIN as, Texas Woman's University M.Ed. UniversHy of Housfon: Direcfor of EducaHonal Guidance MRS. EDNA HARGUS 8.5, Lubbock Tech: MS, UnfversHy of Housion: Junior Counselor MR. BEN WKER 8.5. DeHa Shale College: Sophomore Counselor Congress Sponsor MR. ROGER RUSSELL 5.5. and M.Ed. Sam Housion State Teachers CoHege: AchHTes Diredor MRS. ELAINE COMMANDER Principal's Secrehary MRS, ANNA MAE DEVINE Secrefary MRS. DOROTHY DUGAN Regislrar MISS JEANNETTE TENNEY Mandance Clerk HOMEWORK FOR MISS Mergers? McGinfy, a Spanish feacher. is checking mid-ferm exams in Hms For reporf cards.

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COUNSELING. GUIDANCE TAKE SKILL Mr. Charles McBee spends much of his Hme conferring wi'rh s+udenfs. He is a gradua+e of Nor+h Texas S+a+e UniversHy wifh Bachelor of Sci- ence and Masfer of Educafion degrees. He is currenfly working +oward a dodorafe af +he Universify of Housfonh The assisfanf principalhs fob caHs for a range of fal- enfs. He musf be sympa+hef- ic and undershnding. and af +he same fime. he musf hold a +igh+ line on general prob- lems of conduct When a Jreacher was go- ing +0 be absent Mr. Mc- Bee was +he person +0 see fha+ a subsfHufe was on hand. Parenfs offen comrerred th Mr. McBee COncernIng everyfhlng mrrom why +he7r pride and icy musf wear socks +0 how +0 persuade daughfer +0 hand in her homework. Mr. McBee was promofed fo full principalship when Mn DevaH became secondary curriculum diredorh OFFICE ROUTINE MOVES smoothly when experienced workers are on We fob.

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WE QALUTE A MASTER TEACHER MRS. LAVERNA KIEFER The sfaff of +he YELLOW JACKET is happy +0 honor one who has shaped many successes dur- Ing her 42 years of +eaching. and we wish her happiness. Mrs. Laverna Kiefer ended +his year a feaching career in maihe- mafics wifh +he Por+ ArH'Iur school sysfem +ha+ spanned flue fofal of fhe posf-war period be- ginning in I945. Having received a Bachelor of Science degree from fhe Universify of Illinois. Mrs. Kiefer +aughf In high schools for a +o+al of 42 years. During World War II. she faughf in a radio school. Wifh The advenf of space ex- plorafion. science and mafh pTOe grams were greaHy accelerafed. and many innovafions were ef- fecfed. Mrs. Kiefer was righf +here. changing wifh fhese changes. keeping up wifh +he rapidly expanding world of mathe- mchs and science. She faughf un- fil her refiremenf one of +he mosf forward-Iooking courses in H19 school sysfem. +he infegrafed An- alysis II and Probabilify-Sfafisfics course. Mrs. Kiefer oHen reminded her classes Hwaf +hey were in Hue pro- cess of learning a growing science. Along wifh sfudenfs she ex- plored changed. faughf and learned +he new rules. Her slide rule feams led par- ficipanfs +0 vicfory for 18 years af fhe disfricf level. and for fhe phsf seven years, Kiefer-coached feams have gone in+o sfa+e come peHHon. To her many owe +heir 'Hmnks, for Mrs. Kiefer has guided +hem +0 careers in Hue sfream-Iined space age.