BASED ON STUDIES HERE COLLEGES ADOPTING BOOK BY(Classified)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000300260057-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: April 15, 1962
• Content Type: NSPR

nn
prove r-Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000300260057-5
4
EVENING 30,444
Y 3 1 ,6
r
~pR 15 1962
ED ON STUDIES HERE
Colleges Adopting
Book by Dr. Hia
Observations I n several
Santa Barbara area . sChoollg
and consultation with mwn4r.
ous local teachers have pro-
vided the groundwork for a
new teaching textbook which
has already been adopted in
seven colleges.
The book is `"Teaching Se-
ondary S c h o o 1 Social Stud
'es " by gi h of
he depa o soy at
he U ', slty of Cal'fornia at
lays a picture of Joseph D.
lake's social studies class at
a Colina Junior ttigh School,
hich Dr. High observed,sev-
rals during the time the
ook was in preparation.
STAFF; HELPFUL
Dr. High said the entire
taff of the city schools had
een helpful to him in writing
charer, superintendent of
ity schools; - Dr. Thelma J.
)amgaard, director of ele.
en t a r y curriculum; and
embers of the staff at Santa
arbara High School, includ-
ng Claud Hardesty, princi-
al;'Howard. C Walters, chair.
an of the stYci'al ""studies de-
rtment; ar-d social studies
achers Helen F. Thomson,
nomas V. Martin, Wales R.I
olbrook, Everett B. Crist
nd Paul W. Davidson. At
an Marcos High School
Dr
,
.
en
ury man-
Iigh said, he had receivediual for the conduct of the!
pedal assistance, from Wil-slave `trade which he edited l
lam E. McLaughlin, chair- and for which he wrote an!,
an of the social studies de- introduction.
CPYRGHT
Approved For Release 2000/08/03 : CIA-RDP75-00001 R000300260057-5
'rakes, and Leonard Rogers
,
teachers at the school.
The book is an outgrowth
of 20 years of teaching exper
ience in which Dr. High taught;
at all levels from the seventh.
grade through graduate semi+L
nars in American history.
Dr. High has been assistant`,
professor of history at UCSB`
since 1947. Previous to this;;
he taught history at the Uni-'
versity of Washington and at'
Western Washington College
of Education.
During the war, as a Ma,
rine, he was a Japanese in
terpreter and the author of
a Japanese - English diction
ary used by the military. lid
also worked for the. Central
IUtQU
ington, , r to
Dr. High has just signed a,
contract for a political geog
raphy of,the_world which he
will write in collaboration .with',
Dr. Robert Johnson of UCSB.
The book, to be published byj;
Macmillan, is ,10 be issued in
1.964.
During the past year, h? j';
completed two scholarly books!;
in the field of history, One` isi
a biography of Governor Hora-
tio Sharpe of Maryland, in
the 18th century; and the,
other is an 18th c
t