Aiken High School - Hornet Yearbook (Aiken, SC)

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Don’t get alarmed! This isn’t one of the students after a biology experiment. Miss Barlow is showing a model of the human body to Mrs. Blakewood. Mr. Guy, and Mrs. Bergkamp. The model is used by the students to help them learn the placement of the organs in the human body. Hold on to your hats! There she blows! No, it’s nothing cjuite that exciting . . . just an experiment with water. Jim Overbeck, Charles Chapoton, Ramona Pierce, and Dee Chandler are seen here working it out. They’re trying to prove by means of electrolysis that water is made of two parts hydrogen to one part oxygen. Incidentally, that is water being distilled in the background. Newcomers to the Aiken High School faculty this year are Mrs. Martha Blakewood and Mr. Walter Guy. Mrs. Blakewood, who has a B.S. from Furman University, teaches general science and biology. Mr. Guy, who was graduated from Wofford with an A.B. degree and from Duke University with an M.A. degree, teaches chemistry and physics. Also in the science department are Mrs. Jennie Bergkamp, teaching general science, and Miss Mary Lou Barlow, teaching biology. Mrs. Bergkamp has a B.S. from Furman University and Miss How does it ride, Mrs. Bergkamp? Mrs. Hazel McNeil is seen here in her new Packard, which she won in a raffle sponsored by the Association for the Mentally Retarded Children. Mrs. Bergkamp seems to have enjoyed her ride . . . but who wouldn’t in such a beautiful car? Mrs. Bergkamp and Mrs. Blakewood are showing Jimmy Mann, Rose Comillion, Clenda Gunter, and Kay Coffey that air expands when heated. The science classes do not prepare experiments that are quite so violent as the chemistry classes do, but experimenting is fun in any class.

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Counseling students, offering words of consolation or congratulations, or just listening to problems has occupied a major part of the eight years that Mr. James O. Willis has been principal of Aiken High School. Mr. Willis tries to solve with understanding and wisdom each problem brought to him; here is a pose familiar to many students who have welcomed his words of advice. In the main office ready to help the daily myriad of students and visitors to Aiken High School, as well as perform her secretarial duties, is Mrs. Hazel McNeil, secretary to Principal James O. Willis. Here Mrs. McNeil and Mr. Willis are helping some students with schedules. 7

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Barlow has an A.B. degree from Coker College. Mr. John B. Eubanks, who graduated from Clemson College with a B.S. degree, teaches algebra at AHS. A former student of Mr. Eubanks, Mrs. Betty Owen, teaches advanced algebra and geometry; she has an A.B. from Coker College. Another algebra teacher is Mr. Carroll Courtney, having an A.B. degree from Wofford College. A B.S. graduate of Appalachian State Teachers College, Mrs. Betty Frazier teaches first and second year algebra. Oh! Oh! Seniors! Mrs. Owen is fumbling with her ring again. It’s plain to see that order must be maintained quickly, because next come the book against the cabinet, a “few” words, and then that whisper, “All right class, on page . . .” In this picture Don Wheeler, Fred Cavanaugh, Fred Maxwell. Nancy Putman, and Cecil Etherredge are paying attention for a change, but Annetta Sprtiell is just natural! Yum! yum—is everybody invited to join you, girls? It surely does look good! The girls are preparing dinner for themselves in the ultra-modern home economics department. Mrs. Smith is their instructor and chief sampler—one job no one would object to having. During the last week of June, 1954, while many students were at the beach or just plain, taking it easy, George Wilson and Dale Hagen were attending Boys’ State in Columbia. The purpose of Boys’ State is to prepare the youth of today to take places in government and society as intelligent voters. In a series of classes held every morning for a week, Dale and George learned all about national, state, county, and city governments. One of the highlights of the week was an inspiring talk by former Governor James F. Byrnes.