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

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TEACHERS AND STUDENTS JOIN t THOMAS JEFFERSON HONORS ifs new feachers Mrs. Marfha Godwin Mrs. Nancy Hammom Mn RoueI Rafhenburger. Mr. Thoma Amm Miss Jean Lemming, M255 Nable Bakerl Mrs, Martha Pam Mm Joyce Vasquez. Miss Mildred Spinn. Mrs, Eleanor Meew Mn PhiHIp Dodct Mn Cordell Louviere, Mr. John Meek Mr. CHHord Tah. Mr. Ken BaHand and Mr, c. cEee. HOLIDAY UDWGS ARE expresse In a Christmas fea for feache Serving Mr, WiHie Jones are Lim 3 SINGING ANGELS. COTTON CHRISTMAS hees. frosfed candles and ofher seasonal r 7 7 7 ornamenfs are displayed by sfudenfs in a Home Furnishings class.

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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.

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FORCES TO MAKE PROGRAM WORK McFaddin. Mrs. Jane Davidson. Bella CavareHa and Pei Woods. STUDENTS OF TAXIDERMY in Biobgy n classes gaxn Hm hand knowledge of the enafomy of animals. Here Pat Hynn and John Cooke are careMIy preserving marsh hm WHAT BETTER SHAPE could a foofball learn be In wifh players like Joe Sman or Raymond Fon?enof and a Coach like SmiHy Hill?