Valley Park High School - Val E Vues Yearbook (Valley Park, MO)

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ENGLISH English is . . . creating and developing a better vocabulary and reading skill . . . learning your ABC's all over again . . . learning that ain't ain't proper grammar . . . accidentally turn- ing in a love letter for homework . . . learning how to spell a word you can't even pronounce . . . writing your own original science fiction story from the movie you saw last night . . . learning to write words without letters . . . noticing that all es- says are alike . . . and finally realizing that you did learn some- thing through the year. MS. LEONA SIMPSON Journalism - H.S. GM.S., Val-E-Vues MRS. MILDRED SCHULZ English - 6, 7, G 8th MRS. LANA VLAHIOTIS Spelling G Vocabulary, Business English, College Prep, End of the World, Basic Composition MRS. JANICE SCULLIN Periodical Literature, American Indian MRS. JEAN NELSON Creative Writing, Speech, Drama, English - 6th 13

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MRS. LORRAINE HACKMAN English - 7th, Typing - 7 £ 8th, Career Exploration - 6, 7, £ 8th BUSINESS EDUCATION I'll always remember . . . walking past the typing room . . . hearing begin and the sudden sound of thirty typewriters start humming like a hive of bees busy at work ... Do problems one through five ... be done before the end of the hour . . . stop ... 45 words a minute with 15 errors? . . . hang it up . . . bookkeeping . . . wake up ... 1 Can't do this . . . fff, ggg, kkk . . . don't look at the keys . . . this adding isn't working ... oh the mimeograph is smoking, 1 think it's going to blow up ... 1 can't do this stencil . . . Oh, Miss Clinton. MS. BRENDA CLINTON Bookkeeping, Typing, Of- fice Machines SPANISH, DRAMA Buenas tardes clase . . . Buenas tardes maestra . . . What are they talking about? . . . It's Greek tome . . .no, Spanish . . . memorizing dialogues . . . tongue tied . . . not knowing what you just said . . . being laughed at, all in fun . . . calling your best friend fat and ugly . . . eating Mexican food . . . singing Mexican folk songs . . . talking (at least trying) to talk to a foreign exchange student . . . twirling your r's so your words sound Spanish . . . learning basic grammar all over again . . . having fun . . . breaking the monotony of the day. It seems like only yesterday when we were taking drama . . . acting like animals in class . . . It's too embar- ressing'' . . . writing commercials . . . pantomimes . . . being a visiter from outer space . . . spring play tryouts . . . waiting nervously . . . hearing your name . . bragging to Mom and Dad . . . learning lines . . . forgetting lines . . . building sets . . . hunting for costumes . . . ' 'Get off that springboard, we're trying to do a play . . . practice, practice, practice, . . . dress rehearsal . . . I hate this makeup . . . I'm scared . . . missing your cue . . . ' 'The lights are all wrong ! ...' 'We'll never be ready by tomorrow'' . . . getting to school early ... Are my parents here yet? . . . Oh no, look who's here ! . . . Quiet on the set! . . . stagefright . . . making a mistake no one catches . . . curtain calls ... a success . . . roses . . . and a tear in Mrs. Weis' eyes. MRS. ELAINE TAKE Spanish MRS. KRIS WEIS Drama, Speech, Voices, Mysteries

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MATHEMATICS ' 'Do you remember all of those math courses we took? . . . Hard as I try, I can't forget them' . . . algebra, geome- try , trigonometry . . . the FOIL method of solving a problem . . . congruent angles . . . intersecting and bisecting lines . . . planes . . . ' 'No, you can't ride in them'' . . . trying to talk the teacher into no homework . . . trying to finish before the bell rings ... 'I can't do this . . . Come on, you guys, you're not trying'' . . . not having your homework the next day . . . My dog chewed it up? . . . division . . . multi- plication . . . I hate these fractions . . . Hey, I under- stand now'' . . . getting a right answer after an eternity of figuring . . . forgetting to study for the final exam . . . get- ting the same answer as your neighbor and knowing it must be right . . . asking the silly question, Do you think I' 11 pass? '' . . . passing . . . signing up for yet another math course be - cause Mr. Furmanek and Mrs. Timmerberg said you did so well this year and should take another year of math. MR. ROBERT FURMANEK Math Fundamentals, Pre-Algebra, Geometry, Math - 6th MRS. MARILYN SANDEFUR Math - 7 G 8th MS. PRIS TIMMERBERG Math Fundamentals, Algebra, Trigonometry MRS. Math-6 G 8 JACQUELINE SCHIMPF