Abingdon High School - Beacon Yearbook (Abingdon, VA)

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more than planting and harvesting . . . agriculture Learning to farm . . . films ... Do you need a permit to drive a tractor? . . . packing tobacco . . . mow the girls ' softball field . . . Mr. Oliver, is this a plant or a weed? . . . POISON IVY! . . . the average rainfall in Vir¬ ginia . . . the art of growing things . . . needles . . . home economics Anybody can cook or sew -- anybody except me . . . Do you think these seams HAVE to be straight? . . . Hey, I like your new pattern. . . READ YOUR GUIDE SHEET, GIRLS! . . . Add half a cup of flour . . . Uh, oh, whadda ya do if your fabric is scorched? ... I forgot to add an egg ... I put my zipper in ONLY four times . . . Home Ec . . . Child Care . . . Sewing . . . Cooking . . . Study . . . Home making . . . better homes . . . better individuals . . . 17

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wood . . . shop Did he say make a gun rack? How? . . . drills . . . saws . . wood . . . I ' ve lost those nails again! . . . What kind of wood did he say to use? . . . You ' d better sand it first . . . carving . . . wood shavings . . . Did you say Industrial Arts? , . . 1. Johnny Singleton and Shawn Morgan help tie and pack tobacco on the baskets. 2. Barbara Parris and Vivian At¬ kins eat a meal they have prepared in home economics. 3. Richie Anderson sees that it takes cleaning up after the cooking to make a good grade. 4. Bev Elliott and John Legard work hard in mechanical drawing on their drawings. 5. Wayne Pierce works with wood in the shop. 6. Dorinda Branson makes a small child ' s dress in home economics class. 16

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to be or not to be . . . english No more diagraming . . . determiners? . . . predicate adjectives . . . Where for art thou, Romeo? . . . essays -- What Endangers Wildlife in Virginia . . . dictionary skills . . . Freedom’s Challenge . . . Lady Macbeth said what? . . . forensics . . . sentence struc¬ ture . . . book reports . . . The Monkey’s Paw” . . . Buck Finn and slavery . . . The Devil and who? . . . speeches --to convince to inform, to entertain . . . Edgar Allen Poe . . . eighth grade, and a new teacher -- Mrs. Wagner . . . linking verb compliments . . . skits . . . rhythm in poetry? . . . plot . . . setting . . . characters . . . Mrs. Roberts, are we required to write this? . . . What are you doing your term paper on? . . . footnotes . . . my own personal experience . . .an¬ other test ... so much crammed into one pe¬ riod . . . proper spelling . . . ENGLISH -- it improves the individual! . . . 18