Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Beamed 5o Build 9n industrial Arts Mr. Henry Harrison, industrial arts teacher, and Robert Bagwell examine one of the speaker ' s stands that the Industrial Arts Department made for H.C.H.S. classrooms.

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H.C.H.S. Boys Students enrolled in the Industrial Arts Department receive valuable ex¬ perience and knowledge in their study. Eighth grade students may take indus¬ trial arts for eighteen or thirty-six weeks. They study free-hand drawing, metalwork, electricity, and hand-wood- working during this time. The ninth grade class is a full-year course and covers three fields-drawing, machine-woodworking, and bench metal work. The tenth grade course, also a full-year subject, is the most advanced; in this course machine-woodworking and general metal work occupy the students’ time. Similarly, the students in mechani¬ cal drawing, a tenth grade course, learn how to transfer their ideas onto paper in an orderly way. They learn to plan, sketch, design, and prepare working plans. These students also make practical application of their abilities by helping with the scenery in many plays and by supplying the majority of H.C.H.S. classrooms with speakers’ stands which they make themselves. Eighth-graders Lola Osborne and Ann Owens make use of the new archery sets used in the physical education classes. Pfiy sica! Sd. Developed Strong Bodies Physical education and health is a required subject in grades eight, nine, and ten. The physical education students are taught the history, fundamentals, and basic steps of thirteen different sports. The 500 boys enrolled in the physical education program participated in football, soccer, volleyball, softball, basket¬ ball, tumbling, and track while the 600 girls taking the physi¬ cal education program participated in volleyball, softball, basketball, tumbling, fieldball, rhythms, archers, and bad¬ minton. These students participated in these above sports through intramural competition designed to teach them team-work and the value of physical exercise. Driver’s training was offered to those students who had a learner’s license and who had completed the classroom study preliminary of the course. In the behind-the-wheel driving course, a fee of $3.00 was charged, and the boys usually received a ten percent deduction on their automobile insurance. 18

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3fie Library and Audio-Visual Clubs And over the total academic program is the library, lending substance and depth to all the classes of Halifax County High. Of the many services of the library, the cir¬ culations of books is the most important. There are 11,443 books in the library, including 662 reference books. The book circulation is about 115 per day, which are checked out for a period of two weeks. In the same way, magazines are one of the facilities of the library. The library subscribes to eighty -seven periodicals, which are indexed and kept on file for three years. Magazines may be checked out for one week only and the average circulation is ten per day. The library also offers pamphlets on any number of subjects, which can be checked out only overnight. Miss Frances Woltz, head librarian, Mrs. Pattye Hicks, assistant, Mr. William Satterfield, assistant in charge of visual-aids, and thirty-six students working as aids are in the library everyday to help the students and faculty here. The Audio-Visual Department, which is part of the li¬ brary, owns seven projectors (16mm), three film strip pro¬ jectors, six screens, 232 film strips, three victrolas, and 275 recordings. All of these facilities are available to teach¬ ers at all times and students may check out recordings when they wish. The film strips, most widely used of these materials, averages a circulation of about seventeen per day. Attendance in the library per day ranges from about 259 to 579, using the figures for an average month. Other than during study halls, students may use the library before and after school and at the lunch period; and the teachers may take their classes to the library for classroom work. Specif¬ ically students use the library for book reports, pleasure reading, term papers, class reports, and other school work which requires the use of the library. Projectionists are (first row) W. Stanfield; W. Good; Mr. William Satterfield, advisor; (second row) B. Bradley; J. Butler; W. Anderson; E. Ballou; J. Rutherford; (third row) T. Martin; C. Morris; M. Fears; F. Coates; (fourth row) K. Elder; C. Buchanan; C. Cole; W. Satterfield; J. Elliott; and L. Smith. 20