Wasson High School - Wahian Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Mrs. Simansky prepares to use the console to give her class a stenography lesson. l l l Mrs. Banks dictates practice drills to typing pupils to aid their precision. Trying to remember which key to press without looking is very hard! BUSINESS DEPARTMENT OFFERS MANY COURSES he Business Department offers many courses to prepare students for careers in the business world as well as to aid them in their academic studies. Classes are designed to include a rounded course of study in the fields of business law, consumer eco- nomics, accounting, and secretarial science. The ad- vanced secretarial science courses teach the particu- lars of secretarial work demanded by business. Addi- tionally, the basic classes of typing and notehand aid a student in many of his studies. Miss Nyla McNatt, chairman of the Business De- partment, welcomed two new teachers to her staff. Mrs. Alice Banks, instructor in typing and bookkeep- ing, is a graduate of Kansas State College and taught with the Job Corps for two years before coming to Wasson. Miss Linda Dieringer, a graduate of Colorado State University, began teaching typing, bookkeeping, and consumer economics. Mr. Howard Waite, typing teacher, retired this spring after many years in the teaching profession.

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NEW MATHEMATIC LAB FOR MATH DEPARTMENT new course taught in a new room was offered by the Mathematic Department this year. The course is designed to teach the fundamental ideas of mathe- matical science to those students who are not mathe- matically inclined. With no textbook used in the class- room, the student actually practices the theories of modern math. For this purpose, a room was remod- eled and changed into the new mathematics labora- tory. The student is taught while surrounded by visual aids and mathematic equipment to allow him to apply what he is learning. The Mathematic Department, under the chairman- ship of lVlr. Robert Schenk, gives a full scope of courses including geometry, algebra, trigonometry, math anal- ysis and computer programming. All classes develop scientific learning and prepare students to meet their future. Mrs. Torrie explains a complicated algebraic problem to attentive students. Surrounded by Ui-will llid-9, SfUd6nfS listen to a lecture in the new math lab

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'What? Learn all these thoroughly by tomorrow? Group discussions asia part of the K-12 program are-conducted by Mr. Falgien, who gives special attention to individual problems. But, but. . . that's impossible. I mean, well . . . SOCIAL SCIENCE BEGINS CHANGE-oven TO K-12 odernization was the keynote of the Social Science Department as they explored a long- range plan to revise the traditional program. Chang- ing to a unit plan from the old and familiar chronolog- ical plan, history instructors based their courses on several books and pamphlets rather than just one, allowing the students a cross-section view of the sub- ject they studied. As a part of the K-12 program begun in 1965, this new plan offered a continuous study of history from kindergarten through the twelfth grade. A few of the units taught at the senior high level included American thought and culture, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution. Oh, you say burn these by tomor row Good deal