Pelham High School - Pinnacle Yearbook (Pelham, AL)

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FIRST GLANCE the reasons for becoming a teacher donlt look too appealing. Salary? Forget it. Full time work at the local grocery store makes more money than most school teachers. Vacation? Contrary to popular belief, teachers are not paid for their s'free', summer time for Christmas, or A.E.A.J Good hours? Ask any teacher at PHS if hefshe would be a rich person if he had a nickel for every hour he spent after regular school hours involved in a school-related ac- tivity, whether it be grading papers or attending open house. So why do people choose to enter the teaching profession? The reasons, of course, are varied. But everyone who spends eight hours a day with 150 students, five days a week, 175 days a year has one thing in common: DEDICA- TION. Never will you find a person who is more involved, more con- cerned, and at times even wor ried about his profe provides the benefits that very few professions hav to offer. A teacher has touched the lives of many and doing so, influences generations, never knowin where his influence stops. To know that perhaps b has sparked in only one student along the way desire to learn and to grow, that perhaps he has able to show his students that education doesn't in the classroom, but is a continual life-time pro- cess, to know that perhaps somewhere he has influenced his students in a positive way e these are the rewards of teaching, the rewards that need no measure. Money? Who needs it? ssion than a school teacher. He is expected to be many things besides a teacher: a parent, a friend, a supervisor, a disciplinarian, and a bookkeeper. His role is multi-faceted, difficult, and at times impossible, but the rewards are boundless. For teaching FACULTY

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Dr. Belue came to Shelby County in 1978 after serving the Jefferson County Board of Education. Dr. Belueis philosophy of teaching is that Teaching is the pro- cess of unveiling that which is hidden and making it a useful and functional part of students' lives. The historical event that Dr. Belue says has influenced our life in the twentieth cen- tury is World Way II. He says, During the course of W o r l d W a r I I , developments in science, medicine, technology and research ushered our state of existence into the modern age. .. K v,,,,-9- M DR. BELUE 'ff' -ai, 'li-A ,til L1 Q, ,I Following a successful career in professional baseball, Mr. Tatum chose to enter the field of educa- tion. He says, Serving the students' needs is probably one of the most important professional obligations teachers and administrators face. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde depicts my role as assistant principal at P.H.S. From 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. I must be Mr.Hyde so that I may not be taken advantage of by the students. After 3:00 p.m. I take on the role of Dr. Jekyll, the person I would rather be all the timef, MR. TA 160 FACULTY