Bel Air High School - El Adios Yearbook (Bel Air, MD)

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. . . EL Amos, loss Y , The Seventh Grade ' Back Row fLeft to Rightlz Buddy Ensor, Robert Livezey, Willard Hildt, Alice Hanson, Naomi Harkins, Pauline Panos, Edith Magness, Roy Stiller, Willard Bayless. 3 Second Row: Billy Taylor, J. D. Blevins, Franklin Amos, Frances Pugh,' Rose Emma Irwin, Kitty Cooley, Ruth Thompson, Eleanor Buck, John Lynch, Meredith Stbkes. Third Row: Paul Coomes, Millard Bayless, Donald Cassell. Helen Neuner, Ra ph Blevins, Margaret Cheek, Kenneth Staley, Edward Schafer, Frank Hopkins. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL l The Bel Air Elementary School consists of grades one to sevfln, with an enroll- ment of two hundred and seventy-two pupils. l We have three new teachers this year. Miss Nan Webster, who formerly taught at Thomas Run School, is the seventh grade teacher. Mrs. Sue Snrddgrass came from the Forest Hill School to take charge of our fifth grade. Mrs. Slanley T. Holmes, our fourth grade teacher, formerly taught at the Greenwood Schrool. Mrs. May T. Jones was transferred from the fourth to the sixth grade at the beginning of this school year. So you see we had many changes in the teaching forcelof the elementary school this year. Departmental teaching is carried on in the sixth and seventh lrades. Mrs. Jones teaches arithmetic, reading, and Englishg Miss Webster teaches h story, geography, and music. l The pupils of the elementary school participated in two big spring -events-the May Day and the Athletic Meet. l During the past year many new shrubs and bulbs were planted, and new play- ground equipment was purchased. ' 1 RESSIE KELLY 61 3

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EL Amos, 1938 , , , -N '9'f1'+ wi X-ws.-s-a....fns:'M-I8 '11 '19 Top lleft to rightl : Miss Webster, Mrs. Jones, Mr. Harver. Miss Kelly, Miss Colburn. Standing fleft to right! : Mr. Harver, Mrs. Holmes, Mrs. Snodgrass, Mrs. Jones. Seated tleft to right! : Miss Kelly, Miss Harver, Miss W6bStCl'. The Elementary School Faculty First Grade: Miss Alice B. Colburn Fourth Grade: Mrs. Stanley T. Holmes Second Grade: Mrs. Marguerite K. Hughes Fifth Grade: Mrs. Sue B. Snodgrass Third Grade: Miss Bessie Kelly Sixth Grade: Mrs. May T. Jones Seventh Grade: Miss Nan Webster 60

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