Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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.1 m,,.z,1f , ff' mm ,V 'wf .,. , 19 1' A ,. 'Ji 636 Z if- vi a short list of some With all the commotion over the attendance policy and other academically oriented things this year, it would be easy to overlook the fact that each school department was up to something this year. Hiring new teachers, changing curricu- lum, and running fundraisers were all part of departmental jobs. It was a big year for the Business department, as they became the recipients of a state grant to put computers into business teaching. We got the grant because Joyce Bergstrom Cdepartment headb made up a report and sent it to the state. The state decided she had the best report so we became a pilot school for the project. With new state require- ments, the P.E. department was forced to change its teach- ing style. Since fewer people were required to take P.E. this year, we had to make some changes, said department head Judy Manthorne. We have fewer 'physicali classes big department happenings I and more 'fun' type classes, like badminton and dancef' The other big news was the arrival of Bishop Amat head football coach Jim Patrichio to Walnut to take over the football pro- gram. He began at the school second semester, accompanied by stories in the Tribune and Times. The Counseling depart- ment had a year of change, as they redesigned the counseling structure and came up with Grade Level Coordinators. GLC's covered students by grade level, instead of alpha- betically, as the old counselors used to. We felt We could serve the student body better, and give more one to one contactf' said GLC Harry Iverson. Class additions were the or- der of the year for the Social Science department, as they added European History and World Cultures as required classes for sophomores. Besides that, they added new teachers Daryl Ward and Jim Patrichio for S.R.C., and had another teacher, Ms. Rita Puzo, ap- pointed to a statewide commis- sion to write the CAP test. It was a tough year for the Fine Arts department in 1984, so for 1985 Mr. Mac Gilliland decided to make some changes. Buddy Clements was hired as band teacher, while Margaret Frazier, mother of choir mem- ber Jenny Frazier, took over the choir. The Fine Arts depart- ment is trying to upgrade its image and increase enroll- ment, Gilliland said. We are trying to use the computer more in Trig and cal- culus, said Math department head Jim Reda. Also We are in- cluding more preparation for the SAT, CTBS, and CAP test. They also provided tutor- ing for students during lunch. The biggest project for the Foreign Language depart- ment was the development of written outlines for all of their language courses. We need to make them just so that we can be more organized, said chair- person Pat Kondan.Q p P 2. aa. lr . v q P wrtti auf: 'irfltiz screen at D05 flortrriatids Catalog .L 2

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magine that you are in your pre-ex- istance, not yet born. At this time you are on your way to an auction. At the auction you have S186,000 to bid for any value you wish. The val- ue that you purchase will be yours for life on earth. The value auction is just one of the ways teachers Mr. John Orr and Ms. Joanne McGee taught values in their classes. I feel it's important that the stu- dents realize what their values are before it's too late, stated Mr. Orr, who had been doing the value auction for five years. In addition to the auction, Mr. Orr had his students write an es- say to evaluate their participa- tion and purchase. I tried to V WHILE POINTING at a prospec- tive buyer, Mr. Orr auctions off Love. Love was one of the highest going val- ues. bjective: teaching a valuable lesson Project: learning about new ojbectives participate for the values I want- ed because it made it fun, but I learned a lot about others as well as myself, said junior Daily Godfrey. Through the help of a book ti- tled Uses: Values Clarifica- tion, a handbook for teachers and students, other ideas were brought into Mr. Orr's class- room teachings. Ms. McGee also used the val- ue auction in her class. She found that the auction not only helped the students, but it helped her also. I learn a lct about the students. I try not to teach them a certain value, I just try to have them see what is real- ly important, said Ms. McGee. You see the other sides of the students. Lessons with such things as films and writings were used by Mr. Dan Priest to stress the need of values. He had his class play value games where roles were played. For example, the class was asked to imagine a shipw- reck, where there are 26 people, but only room for 8 on the life- boat. The students examined the qualities of each person and selected which were most impor- tant to preserve. Writing in journals was an- other project that Mr. Preist as- signed to his students. He asked them to write on certain topics that often required the acknowl- edgement of a value. I feel that it is important that students are taught values. That's why I be- came a teacher, there's more to teaching a class than just a sub- ject, said Mr. Priest. I think it is important that values are taught. I think most teachers at least teach the basics of trust and respect, stated ju- nior Sonia Villegas. Q J