Trona High School - Telescope Yearbook (Trona, CA)

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Xt if 1 .49 Q-0' -Rat . A Ad Adams KI-loratioj and Barbara Hevener f0sricJ look over the corpses of Barbara Garcia fLaertesD and Virginia Hall iliamletb who died of wounds from the poisoned swords. It looks like Lois Pratt CClaudiusD and Shari McKean fGertrudeb drank too much from the wine bottle. mm icademdc Bob Rascoe is fascin- ated by the slide speci- men he is looking at through the microscope in biology. Bobby Jones and George Sherman must be trying to look through the holes in Aside from the social and athletic events in school, students somehow squeezed in some time for studying academic subjects. Besides vocational subjects - industrial arts, homemaking, and business courses- there was a solid core of college prepara- tory courses for those who wanted to con- Bob's head. ' V I tinuc their education. A required subject is English, so, making the best of it, the older students hammcd up their dramatizations of Hamlet or dreamt up Weird subjects for comp. The History must be an entertaining subject to look Showing off their models are Eric Chandler, Don at Larry Burke, who probably just pulled another Samuels, Lynn Bell, Jerrell Glenn, Scot Wallace, fast one. Mr. Ferman doesn't think it so funny. and Chris Petersen. Mr. Merrill grins for the camera Could he be looking at his grade book? while he holds his iron rod in his hand.

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Here Mr. Coy's first period band class is tuning up for the music festival at Barstow. After many years they are finally able to meet in a regular class instead of activity period. 26600 few 7 to work on automobiles and fix up their hot rods. Shop is not offered to girls, so from the eighth grade up, girls may take homemak- ing under the direction of Mrs. Noel. They learn cooking from biscuits to complete meals, and they eat what they cook, too! Girls also learn the most important prin- ciples of sewing, and they make anything they wish from simple aprons to suits and dresses. It is a good chance to complete your wardrobe. When the girls are juniors and seniors, they may take a course in family relations. This class is very important to those who The eighth grade homemaking class is busy wish to learn how to make their future homes good homes. Another class that is quite helpful to the girls is child care. They learn first aid in the home and how to take good care of children and babies. If you like to doodle, there is a class for that too! Miss Svoboda and her art class- es moved to one of the rooms in the new wing this year. Many talented students have taken advantage of the scenic view, and put their ideas on paper with paints and pencils. The classes range from the beginners' to the advanced classes, from sketching to such crafts as leather tooling and clay work. needles and sewing skirts, pausing briefly to the birdie. Two unidentified aides help Donna I-levener, Shirley Reeder, and Lynette Blackmun cook up something.

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7 .. ' - . W 'nv J ,--1 9? drowsy - .. . T 1' -31:32----f . ,.- l--af. 1 'll- x l Drawing blueprints is a rough job. Vernon Lewis looks to Mr. Georgeou, shop and geology instructor, for a few pointers. Gilbert Gonzalez, John Vess, Al Gonzalez fhalf- hiddenj, Manuel Picon, and Jim Dillon industriously draw or just think. These boys are part of the advanced mechanical drawing class who came up with some very complicated projects. 4 ,44 Wed 144 9th and 10th graders sweated out the mechanics of English grammar, preparing themselves for these joys. To satisfy their eager curiosity, many students experimented with chemicals and tubes or by cutting up frogs and worms during the more advanced sciences. The strain of trigonometry and the mys- teries of solid geometry were tasty fare for the potential engineers. Four years of Spanish are offered, but only two years are required for college. The eager-beavers who took the advanced Isn't Jimmy Hambright a fierce-looking ghost! Ted Murrin 1BernardoD, Arrlos Howell flloratiol, and Gary Casey lMarcellusJ spring away in fright during the Lit dramatization of the opening scene of Hamlet. class are sometimes rewarded, such as the eventful trip this year to Mexico where they stayed at the ranch of Ruly Quezada's father. Then students must learn what hap- pened long ago-'way back in history: how our country originated and was developed. And in Civics Mr. Ferman taught how the government is run, about the different departments and houses, and the repre- sentation of the people. For those who couldn't find Washington, D. C. on the map, THS offered a course in geography. What is it? 7th grade natural science students Roy Carter, Jimmy Clarkson, Walter Gebhart, and Van Darnell-rub a glass rod with a piece of rabbit fur. The static electricity worked the ping pong ball