Abingdon High School - Beacon Yearbook (Abingdon, VA)

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Above: Phil Bradley and Donnie Fleenor. Bottom Left: Jackie Atkins.

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n ill Mrs. Beatrice Goodwin Jerrue was born and reared in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, where she participated in basketball and cheer- leading during high school. She continued her education and became a champion debater at Morehead State College. Her teaching career began in Kentucky and continued at William King High School in Abingdon. Since 1959, when Abingdon High School opened, Mrs. Jerrue has coached de¬ bate teams (the affirmative and negative teams won the state tournament one year). sponsored the junior class, instructed for¬ ensic contestants, taught social studies and speech, and served as chairman of the social studies department. After June 1976, she will have more time for her hobbies, playing bridge, reading and writing poetry, and enjoying riflery, dogs and horses. Students have commented, M She knows history . . . She knows her students . . . She inspired me to read and become aware . . . She is a friend. She checks the roll book atyhe Reading NEWSWEEK magazine, she marks all beginning of each class period. the important articles for her class. The flash of a camera astonishes Mrs. Jerrue as she teaches U.S. History to the juniors in 1968. Mrs. Jerrue takes her glasses off to rest her eyes after reading the morning newspaper which she uses in teaching current events.