Alleghany County High School - Alcova Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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Home Ec. Develops Future Homemakers Mrs. Clinedinst is caught “Snitching from the Home Ec refrigerator. Home Economics classes were very for- tunate to have the services of two very cap- able people, Mrs. Perdue and Mrs. Cline- dinst. The girls in Elome Economic classes learned valuable information in the areas of preparing numerous dinners and banquets at .Alleghany. The instructors stressed how to attain the desired effect with minimum cost by making use of all available materials. Cooking wasn ' t the only skill learned by the girls. They learned how to sew their own clothes which helped them save money. These skills learned by the girls in the Home Economics classes will always stay with them through life. No matter what their final position in life, the girls will be glad for the training they received in the Home Eco- nomics course. Mrs. Perdue shows Denna Osier the proper method of putting in a hem. Mrs. Clinedinst makes a passing comment to Deborah Simmons. 26

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Better Knowing Their Own Language What a surprise to Mrs. Nichols some of those French films must be! One of her student ' s more scholarly Latin replies seems to amuse Miss May. Two of the foreign languages taught at A.C.H.C. were derived from the third. French and Spanish were Romance languages which meant that they were derived from Latin. Throughout the 1972-73 school year, Mrs. Sumner endeavored to teach the traditional customs, geography, and history of the Spanish-speaking countries, as well as the language. Spanish provided the platform to build on in Spanish II. In Spanish II a more involved know ledge of the language was attempted. Once again. Miss May preached to her scholars that “Latin is not a dead language!” Latin proved to be a great help in increasing the students’ English vocabularx and in im- proving his overall study of English grammar. No, in Miss May ' s class Eatin truly was not a “dead” language. In Erench, Mrs. Nichols also taught the customs and history of Erance. French, as did the other languages, tried to cross the language barriers of communication. 25

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Students Gain Business Skills In the business department, courses were offered to all students. Many found these courses useful in typing term papers and taking notes. Students also learned bookkeeping which could be helpful in finding a job. After some collaboration on the part of Mrs. Swartz, Mrs. Jamison, and Miss O’Farrell with the Guidance Department, a new course was added to the curriculum. This was Personal Typing, a semester course, which became very popular with the students. Someone asks Mrs. Jamison a startling question. Mrs. Swartz’s practiced eye roams over her students as they type. A student asks Miss O ' Farrell a rather complicated question. 27