Trona High School - Telescope Yearbook (Trona, CA)

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me ,-404 S t u d e n t s celebrated Valentine's Day this year with two dances: one for the junior high, and a week later the SeI1lOI' high held thelI'S. B0'Ch were Here junior high girls are showing off paid for out Of the student body treas- their socks while a couple of boys get into ury, but the G.A.A. planned and dec- f-he act- orated for the senior high dance, while the junior high gave their own. The seventh and eighth graders i decorated on a Friday night after a basketball game for the dance the following evening. They served doughnuts and root-beer floats and danced to records furnished by the students. The next week the G.A.A. decorat- ed after school for the Saturday night dance. Miss Anderson, Mrs. Noel, Mr. Arnold, and Mr. Merrill sponsored the dance with Mr. Merrill furnishing the recorded music. Evelyn and Pat Cunningham, Helen Fair, and Chucky Beil sang 'tHeart of My Heart as the entertaining feature after cake and punch were served. To finish out the year, the C.S.F. put on the Spring Dance, and the G.A.A. and V.C. put on the Sadie Hawkins. Senior high students and a few alumni are dancing 'neath the G.A.A.'s decora- tions for the Valentine's Dance. Lyman Gilliland is amused at Nancy Read for getting so tickled over having her picture taken. Evelyn Cunningham dances with Mike Rho- den, who is a little cam- era shy. ! tif' 2 R . M is . fi EE W g!ti,g,:' A HWS 57

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Prizewinners Carol Lee, cutest sockg Larry Brooks, king: Judy Bueltmann, queen: Vernon Lewis, biggest foot: Pat Hagar, smallest foot. L 4 AA lqawt' Here one couple dance shoeless while others at the junior high Sok Hop are just sitting and gabbing. do , 664 There are three kinds of dances put on at school during the year. One kind is put on by the social chairman and is backed by student body funds, like the Ice Breaker. The Prom and the Christmas Ball are two dances put on by classes and paid for out of the class' own funds. Then there is the third kind, where the organization puts on the dance and the student body pays the expenses. The Sok Hop was of the third type. Sponsored by Mrs. Noel and Mr. Mer- rill, the freshman class put on this dance, using student body funds. Students danced to recorded music and had refreshments of cup-cakes and Pepsi-Cola. Prizes were given for the biggest foot, the smallest foot, and a king and queen were chosen by a ticket dance. The junior high had their Sok Hop on a different night, and it was put on by their own social chairman. They served sherbet floats and cookies and also danced to records. Following the refreshments, prizes were presented for the largest and smallest foot. These four pair of feet belong to senior high girls. These are just a few of the clever ideas the students had in compet- ing for the prizes. 56

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Serious business, this learning to be a secretary. Just look at the faces of Barbara Knight, Rita Skidmore, Ann Davenport, and Lois Pratt receiving instructions from high school secretary, Mrs. Stark, who gives a lot of her time teaching the girls how to run an office. Girls taking business courses have a good opportunity to practice and get good experience before they leave high school. They apply what they learn in their busi- ness classes while they work in the central and high school offices. These girls help out and at the same time help themselves. Some of the girls work under the super- vision of Mrs. Wheeler and Miss Christy in the central office. They work the cal- culating and adding machines, answer the telephones occasionally, fill out and type purchase orders and requisitions, do a lot of filing, run errands, and take messages around. Others, who work with Mrs. Stark in the high school office, pick up roll sheets, take out the bulletins, sort mail, fix at- tendance records, fill out blue cards and tardy slips for those many absentees and late comers, type roll sheets, run off tests and other data on the mimeograph ma- chine, run errands, and help the new stu- They're off! The speed tests will help the sec- ond year typing class in the business world. dents find their lockers and rooms. All girls who take office practice must be at least of sophomore standing and must be enrolled in a business course. Also they must have had at least one year of typing. Most of the girls, however, are juniors and seniors as they are preferred by their sup- ervisors. This is a regular class and the girls must be graded. Mr. Eaton, the business teacher, gives each girl a paper which they take to their supervisor, who in turn grades the paper and turns it back. Each girl is graded on the quantity and quality of work she does as well as how she coopera- ates with her employer and co-workers. Regularity of attendance is also figured in. Besides office practice, students major- ing in business may take two years each of typing, shorthand, and bookkeeping, and also a class in business English and general business. More than 80 words a minute is the goal of the first year shorthand class. ssm. .im t . V f -..,...i ,,,,. ,, g .. 0-an HMM