Altavista High School - Nuntius Yearbook (Altavista, VA)

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Office Staff and Guidance Assist Teachers and Students OFFICE STAFF: K. Downing, R. Stevens, J. Reynolds, Y. Burnette, L. Barrett, S. West, D. Bennett, D . Doss, H. Arthur. Here the student office staff prepares the A.H.S. newsletter which was sent monthly to all parents. The office staff form the busy people who manage the tremendous task of keeping the school’s business and keep its constantly changing roster running smoothly. The girls, guided by Mrs. Hunley, school secretary, help with the school’s typing, filing, and run various errands for Mr. Cline and Mrs. Hunley. Miss Burnette, guidance counselor, keeps her office up to date with the newest information on colleges, scholarships, and helpful aids to all students. She is the person who administers various qualifying tests given to students each year, such as PSAT and SCAT and the National Merit Test. Miss ““B’’ as she is commonly known, is the A.H.S. student’s chief problem-solver. Her motto is, “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you.” Mrs. Hunley, school secretary, is probably the busiest person in school. She is the person who keeps track of the school registers and money, in addition to her regular tasks of typing and helping teachers. Miss Burnett gives advice to Lynne Watts on choosing a college MRS. KATHLEEN HUNLEY that will suit her needs. Secretary ie : em MISS KATHLEEN BURNETTE B.A., Lynchburg College M.Ed., College of William and Mary Mary Washington College of Univ. of Va. Guidance ?

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FROM THE DESK OF OUR PRINCIPAL... The Altavista High School session of 1965-1966, which opened August 30 with an increased enrollment, is an incident in a long trail beset with many achieve- ments and some disappointments. At the end of September the total enrollment was 532, with 82 seniors and 103 juniors. This is about the same size senior class as last year, but the junior class will bring in a graduating class next session 25% larger than ever before. Each year it appears that a larger portion of the class goes to college than pre- viously. Last session over half of the graduating class went to college. Besides these a number went to business school and other areas of further formal ed- ucation. The same is true again this session. The large present enrollment of the 11th grade indicates that next session, for the first time, the school will have a graduating class of 100 pupils, which is the least-sized school Dr. James B. Conant has recommended to operate economically. The esprit corps is good again this session. At the beginning of each session the new resolves of pupils make smooth running of a school. The attendance is good; pupils use their study hall time to advantage; discipline problems are at a minimum. As the year progresses, the monotony of routines causes the less ambitious to neglect their work. This year was no exception. After the first six weeks the gap between the poorly motivated and the well motivated grew wider. The good economy, the welfare state, and the easy morality are contributing fac- tors lulling unambitious people into a false security. Only hard ships and néed compel the lazy to strive. The laurels, independence, and satisfaction of achieve- ment come only to those who possess a compelling desire to stand on their own feet. Altavista High School has a good share of the latter kind but only a few of the tormer. P Weer Principal MR. FRANK P. CLINE B.A., Bridgewater College M.A., M.A. University of Virginia Principal, Guidance

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We Acknowledge and Honor Mrs. Mary S. Moorman, who retires after this, her 13th year at A.H.S. Mrs. Moorman shows her class an icosahedron made by one of her Solid Geometry students. All trails begin somewhere, and Mary Smith Moorman’s stems from Martinsville, Virginia, where she was born and raised. In her earlier life she attended private schools, and was graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. After doing graduate work at the University of Virginia, she accepted a position as the Chairman of the Department of Mathematics at Hampton High School, in Hampton, Virginia, where she remained for a period of six years. She then accepted a position as Professor of Mathe- matics and the head of the Math Department at Grenada College, no longer in existence since it marged with another college in Mississippi. After two years there, she was compelled to return home because of illness. In 1927 she married Dr. Carleton Moorman and .made Altavista her home, thus ending her teaching career for 25 years. In the spring of 1953 she began teaching at A.H.S. and has ta ught continuously until the present. During her time at A.H.S., Mrs. Moorman has taught Algebra, Trigonometry, Geometry, and Advanced Math, Latin, and English. She was chiefly responsible for the founding of the National Beta Club at A.H.S. and has been its sponsor since it was established. So with gratitude we say good-by to Mrs. Moorman and wish for her the best through the coming years. Mrs. Moorman good-naturedly laughs along with her class as they take a break from the arduous, but fascinatina- world of math. With patience, a desirous trait of all math teachers, Mrs. Moorman explains a complicated Algebra problem to Janice Hughey. MRS. MARY S. MOORMAN B.A., Randolph-Macon Woman's College Algebra, Math 9, Trigonometry, Plane Geometry, Solid Geometry, Advanced Math