Pinson Valley High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Pinson, AL)

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Mr. Cooper Mrs. Copeland Homework: A Heartless, Unwelcome Enemy It ' s there, whether you want it or not, stalking its victims, attacking in- nocent people. Will it ever be stopped? Not likely! Homework . . . it ' s a vicious, heartless, unwelcome enemy of the human race. By invading the American home it has managed to expand the hard-earned time of the young. Just imagine arriving home after a long, hard day and hearing, Do your homework! Terrifying, isn ' t it? All night your parents say, Have you done your homework? and all night you reply, I ' ll do it later. It won ' t take long. Chances are, you arrive at school the next day and suddenly realize you didn ' t do it. You spend most of the time in other classes working on the assign- ment before it ' s due later that day. As a result you miss important facts in those classes, but it doesn ' t mat- ter, at least you got points for your homework. Teachers, believe it or not, don ' t really like giving homework many times because it is usually their responsibility to grade it. Like students, teachers have things they ' d rather do when they go home for the day than grade homework. About the only thing they get out of it is a Migrain (which a truckload of Anacin wouldn ' t cure) because the work is so garbled from being hur- riedly done in homeroom when it should have been done the night before. No doubt about it, homework is a double-edged sword for everyone in- volved. Though it ' s hard to learn anything without it, many people, students, and teachers alike, wish there was an alternative way. r Mrs. Dunn Mrs. Deming 157

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Mrs. Bettis (Page 156, Top Left) Mrs. Betty Bet- tis teaches tenth grade regular and advanced English. (Top Right) Great Expectations and Romeo and Juliet, along with traditional grammar skills are taught to ninth graders by Mrs. Jeanette Carnes. (Bottom Left) Mrs. Susan Caraway instructs ninth grade regular and advanced English and twelfth grade advanced place- ment English. (Bottom Middle) Students are instructed how to cook, sew, and do homemaking skills by Mrs. Carol Collins. (Bottom Right) Spanish I and II are taught to students by Mrs. Shirlee Bingham. 156 Mrs. Carnes (Page 157, Top Left) Mr. Ronald Cooper helps students who are pur- suing a career in carpentry. (Top Right) Twelfth grade English, World History and American History are taught to students by Mrs. Janna Copeland. (Middle Right) Mrs. Joy Deming bases her program around American literature and the in- famous term papers. (Bottom Right) Mrs. Martha Dunn has a superb reputation for her scientific skills. She teaches classes of Advanced Placement Biology, Advanced Biology, and Biology to all grades of students. Mrs. Collins Mrs. Bingham

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New Faces For the first time in several years the faculty here at Pinson Valley underwent some minor alterations and as a result, new faces abound. Early in the school year we wel- comed Mrs. Bingham, who is filling in for Mrs. Plott, who is on maternity leave. Mrs. Bingham is teaching Spanish and the Valley was for- tunate to find a replacement with much experience in the area. Mrs. Turner, also coming to the Valley early in the school year, filled in teaching math for Mrs. Elkins, who also took a brief maternity leave. In addition, we would like to welcome several other new faces to Pinson this year: Mrs. Betty Bettis, teaching English, Mrs. Barbara Quinn who teaches science, Miss Susan Spencer and Mrs. Marien Hig- ginbotham who teaches math and Mr. Gene Grimes who teaches science, Don Little who teaches science and Mary Ellen Saxon, Of- fice Aid. Pinson Valley extends a warm welcome to these new faces and wishes for a successful and reward- ing school year. Mrs. Galloway nRWER EO«c.Mio»» Mrs. Garrett 158 ., in Hoovet Coach Hand