Watsonville High School - Manzanita Yearbook (Watsonville, CA)

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Mathematics In these days ot the atomic bomb, the importance of a thorough grounding in mathematics for some students is obviously ot greater importance than ever be- fore. For those who will enter a profession in which mathematics is a basic tool, our mathematics department offers the beginning Work. But the department does not stop there. It gives to everyone the necessary skill to make the calcu- lations necessary to get along in daily life. With the advantage ot a long history ol teaching behind it, present day methods can be counted on to do the proper train- ing with the maximum amount of results for the minimum amount of time. Top lett: Miss Pogue and Mr. Brown get a laugh with Miss Pokel out ot a mathe- matics text: top right: Evalee Gray is probably not discussing mathematics: Mr. Brown's trigonometry class is al- ways this busy: Mr. Brown explaining the intracacies ot square root: Miss Pogue's algebra class in session: more ot Miss Pogue's algebra class: Martin Drobac gets help irom Miss Pokel on a math problem.

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Languages In a world in which the old boun- daries ot space cmd time are be- coming increasingly meaningless, the importance of a knowledge of languages becomes plainly ap- parent. One of the great stumbling blocks to international under- standing is the inability ot great groups of people to know clearly what a foreign group is thinking and saying. The contribution which this department makes to a more ordered world is its offering of French, Spanish, and Latin. A sign ot the interest of our students in language is the large number of students enrolled in the courses. TOP, Left to right: Mr. Sanchez, Miss Dickson, and Miss Blizzard discuss de- partment plans for the languages. CENTER: Board work in Spanish tor Iohn Hopkins, Ted Parsons, and others as Mr. Sanchez makes a suggestion. BOTTOM: Miss Blizzard's third period class deep in the heart of a quiz.

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O I I C u C O n The Physical Education Department this year was under the guidance of Coach Howard Burdick and his assistants, Carl Hoberg and Ronald Staley. Football, basketball, baseball and track Were presented in the competitive sports line. Students also learned archery, boxing, physical fitness, and badminton. Top left: The coaches in conference-Mr. Geiser. Mr. Staley, Mr. Hoberg, and Mr. Burdick. Top right: Mrs. Bilicich, Miss Blanchard, and Miss McCullough go over some student records. Middle left: A girls PE class playing volleyball in their usual slam bang style. Middle right: Ray Kusumoto evades Mud Pollitt. Bottom lett: Fortunately, he's landing on his head. Bottom right: Anyone would think it was going to bite. ll V' fgJf ,. i