Venice High School - Gondolier Yearbook (Venice, CA)

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English ,Q 4 '14, I Embryo poets and authors receive recognition in the GONDOLA, yearly publication containing the best crea- tive work of both junior and senior high students. ln the picture Editor Walter Whitaker is shown conferring with Barbara Conley, associate editor, and Bud Widney, art editor. Gertrude lllingworth Edith Burns Violet Biscoe Annette Glick Byrne Helen Rockotf Gretchen Kirby Head of English Dept, English and Social Studies, Social Living, Reading Soc.aI Living, in charge English, Creative Writing English, Gondola Professions coordinator Chatelaines Improvement ot Audio-Visual Aids Committee, Work Shop Florence Taylor Flora Schrack Isabel Orton Margaret McGarry Ruth Rous Ann Wofld Culture American ami Modern Dramnlica English, drama English and Jourimllsnw, Enqllsh and Literature, Creative Wril section of iipcreltn G0iidoller,O.1rsn. inq and Work Shop a Merritt East Public Speak- English and Social Living, UH, ROWOY 'HQ Defenders t 2-l o Democracy

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Engineers . bor and devotion to their work that the fin- ished product is made ready for delivery. X 1 fl I ,fy,f 'Vi C X A L.-ft! I Winifred Wood Commercial Chairman, Gregg Artists, N. Y. A, Burton M. Oliver Bookkeeping, Everyday Business, Venetian Thrift Association Alma M. Thomas Pence Continuation Education and Placement Margaret Egan Typing, Machine Calcula- tion Aure C. Tucker Business Correspondence, Shorthand, Typing, Asst, Helen Randall Bookkeeping, Typing, Sr. Delphian Sponsor Cornelius Brown Sr. Problems, Business Law, Salesmanship, Typ- Commercial Typing and mimeographing, in addition to bookkeep- ing, shorthand, machine calculation, business law, busi- ness correspondence, and business and office practice, are among the many subjects offered in the commercial department, So large has this department become that it now includes almost one-third of the student body. Commercial students have been doing their share in de- fense by typing a great 'many reports of defense activities for the community. 23

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wer . ' it . U Q i 1 5. 9 if NC Social Studies i l i ,sig Geography has become a revitalized part of the social studies classes as students pore over maps of far-off places to study the movement of armies. Through his- tory and civics Venetians study how a democracy func- tions and put theory into practice in self-governing ac- tivities. C. S. Overin Gladys Hathaway Ruth McKoane Laura Danielson K. L. Witty Soc. Studies Chairmanf Social Living, Sr. Prob- World Culture, Social Liv- Civics and lJ.S. History, Social Living, Navigators Civics, Senior Problems, lems, Girls' League ing Cosmopolitan Club Citizenship Coordinator John Shultz Helen Copeland Viola Gehlen Harriet M. Willett Edith Tompkins Jean Goebel Social Living Social Living, Pagettes Social Living, Jr. Del- Social Living, Asst. Spon- Social Living Social Living Dhians sor Jr. Delphians 25