Asheboro High School - Ash Hi Life Yearbook (Asheboro, NC)

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MR. REID PRILLAMAN Guidance Counselor Waiting to see Mr. Prillaman, Bonnie Briles and Warren Gentry scan available materials. GUIDANCE ... No gift is more precious than good advice. ERASMUS During high school, a student is often confronted with many problems concerning his future. Consultation with our counselor, Mr. Prillaman, is the basic step to finding solutions. Vocational interest tests ensue to determine the field in which the student shows the most ability. Test results give the student an opportunity to consider various occupations in a particular area. After much consideration, a student can then decide whether to seek employment or begin preparing for entering college. College catalogues for two thousand colleges, as well as information on scholarships and loans, ore available in our guidance office. If a student decides to seek immediate employment, vocational pamphlets and information on job openings may be obtained. 23 Allen Feezor and Barbara Trotter, under the direction of Mr. Prillaman, take one of the occupational interest tests.

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MISS KATHERINE BUIE Processing new books is a gigantic task for library assistant, Russell Ward, and Librarian librarian, Miss Buie. LIBRARY . . . Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. BACON Our library serves as an information center for students to use for research reports, for parallel reading, and for pleasure reading. Filmstrips, pamphlets, records, and eighty-five different magazines are included in the library along with 6,800 volumes of fiction and non-fiction. Although the national figure for a high-school library is ten books per student, last fall our school had only seven and-a-half per student. Miss Buie ordered one thousand books this year to bring our average to eight books per student. 22 A busy moment at the circulation desk finds Miss Buie searching for cards. Library assistants, Lorraine Farlow, Susan Stroud, and Sandy King pre- pare new cards for the catalogue.

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MRS. KITTIE J. CAVENESS Head of Foreign Language Department, English, Latin MR. DONALD JARRETT Spanish MISS HELEN BOSTICK French Our Foreign Language Department offers an opportunity not only to learn the grammar of a language other than English, but also to study the life, customs, and literature of other people. Important primarily for its intriguing literature and color- ful culture, Latin II is offered to sophomores who have successfully completed Latin I. The primary emphasis of second-year Latin is a detailed study of grammar and the translation of excerpts from Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. Through the study of Spanish, juniors and seniors become acquainted with Central and South America as well as Spain. Interesting reports are offered by class members on such subjects as famous landmarks and customs of the Spanish-speaking countries. Entertaining stories at the beginning of each chapter in the textbook present additional information about Spanish customs and life. Although culture is an important part of the course, primary emphasis is on the language. Even before grammatical construction is presented, conversational Spanish is taught. When a basic grammatical background has been acquired, skits and speeches are written in Spanish and presented to the class. French scholars receive a firm grounding in basic vocabulary and grammatical usage. From collateral reading, including French translations of current magazines, this basic knowledge is supplemented with an understanding of French culture and history. As an added feature, students compose and stage original skits in French. FOREIGN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT Brenda Barker, Bonnie Byrd, and Kay Davis portray a Spanish classroom scene. 24