Beaver High School - Beaver Memories Yearbook (Bluefield, WV)

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Zijafanae Un clfuznan .fifs Latin, French and Spanish-these are the three foreign languages taught in Beaver. NVE! often think of Latinas being a dead language, but to prove that this is an erroneous idea just ask Miss Jennings or Miss Lazenbyl They would tell us that last year Jean Kirk and Gladys Ruth Staf- LANGUAGE AND ART On your left, Ladies and Gentlement, you have AD French pupils, Hazel Roop fda of and Joe Black, conjugating a verb. important buildings in Rome to Miss Jen nings' Latin pupils. LU' 'UR P- .LFVNINGS FULUIX Huxci co 1 ' .zu -:ff'ifj!76!'i sf Q.. af Z' ,W W 'N ford Won for Beaver the State Latin trophy. In the French classes, the pupils learn to speak French fluently and many correspond Q With boys and girls in France. -The senors - . Q 53 5 and senoritas in the Spanish classes becomex. A fl pil. acquainted with all the old Spanish cus- , l, ., toms, the country and the people. And do V H ' ' S A they love itl J y DAVVN ABSUER IVIARTHA ,llf'l'lfR LNIPNHH EDYTIIN ll. EDVVARD5 F ,-,-,, cl Lu fi,-1-Euglffn X at Jacqueline Maitland points our several

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x x rl' Science! Mathematics!-There's some- thing very intriguing about those two sub- jects say many of the Beavers and a curio- sity that just can't be explained impels EMI Trying to prove that AB is I to CD is Carter Wade who likes delving into the mysterious realm of planes. Miss Ratcliffe argues much Of arc and of circumference Diameter and such. . Standing-Virginia Gwinn, Miss Rat- cliffe, June Deaumer. Seated-Evelyn Mays intent on the explanation and Harry i Rice, whose mind is on some project of his own. Chemistry holds a strange fascination for these Juniors-VVayne Cofer, Jack Hall, and jack Counts. They are seen observing the changes in the weight of metals after they have been heated. them to study these subjects far beyond the requirements of any high school course. The curriculum requires only plane geo- metry, solid geometry, and advanced alge- midi