Avondale High School - Plume Yearbook (Avondale Estates, GA)

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If it's a refreshment booth for the street dance, or a plywood Santa for the roof, or an igloo for the Junior-Senior dance, or special lighting effects for a display-whatever the need, all minds turn immediately to the same fellow. The most obvious reason for this, of course, is that he can do just about anything that needs to be done, or make almost anything that has to be made. But an even more important reason is that he is always so willing to help with any project where his particular talents are in de- mand - as they so often are. Of course, you'll have to catch him outside of class, because for Hve periods during the day, he's busy preparing students to enter some skilled trade or profession, or equipping them with the basis for a worthwhile hobby later on. Shop courses may be crip courses in some schools, but not at Avondale .... Each year, the PLUME is dedicated to some member of the faculty who has made an outstanding contribution to the students and to the life of the school. When we began considering the matter this year, it didn't take us long to arrive at a decision, our choice seemed almost made for us. We had already decided that our yearbook would be modern in format, and that we would build our presentation around our new building, which is practical and modern in every detail. It was only natural for our thoughts to turn to a man who works with modern design, and who trains students to live and build in the world of tomorrowg a practical man, doing things in the most efficient manner today, but ever seeking new and better ways of doing them tomorrow- This man has made a great and lasting contribution to Avondale High School, and it is in grateful appreciation of his efforts in our behalf that we dedicate the 1956 PLUME to . . . Mr. Robert P. James. Q I As you probably know, Mr. james is no clock-watcher. You re Just as likely to see his car parked outside the shop at night, or on Saturday or Sunday, as during the regular school day. fHis car, by the way, has caused some concern among other members of the faculty. We'l1 never get a raise, they say, so long as Mr. James drives a Cadillac convertibleg he's sabotaging the profession! But here again his practicality is evident. So long as I have to buy a used car, he says. I might as well buy one that will last. j . . . Besides teaching and doing odd jobs for all who ask him, Mr. james sponsors the School Safety Patrol, which has become an important organ- ization on our campus. When some emergency develops, out goes an S.O.S. to Mr. James and the Patrol, and soon everything is under control again. He doesn't make a lot of noise about the things he doesg he just quietly organizes all his work and goes ahead with it .... We wonder how he ever found the time to do it, since he stays at school so much, but Mr. James built his own house at Pine Lake, where he lives with his lovely wife, June, who is also a teacher. Mr. james, as well as his wife, received his training at Georgia Teachers Collegeg this probably explains why he is such an ac- ceptable Yankee in our midstg we've reconstructed himl 5

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