Bluestone High School - Golden Link Yearbook (Skipwith, VA)

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Maxine Kimball and Lucy Bugg check their work with the help of the newly purchased laboratory equipment. BOTH HERE AND ABROAD Latin and French are the two foreign languages taught at Bluestone High School. These courses are taught by Mrs. Bernice Owen and Mrs. Laura Bragg, respectively. Mrs. Owen keeps the so-called dead language very-much-alive for the first and second year stu- dents. Though Latin has no value as a spoken lan- guage, it does much to improve a student ' s cultural background, as well as his English vocabulary. Enthusiastic French students study grammar and improve their accents by listening to the newly purchased laboratory equipment. Both first and second year students prepare a scrapbook, thus supplementing their studies. Mrs. Bragg and the tape recorder help Walter Beales and Patsy Ed- gerton with their pronunciation. In Latin, as in all classes, one must study diligently, as Ginger Hart is doing here. 13

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LANGUAGE’S CREATE INTEREST IN LANDS English is undoubtedly the most important subject taught at Bluestone. Through the English courses stu- dents learn correct grammar usage, how to interpret and appreciate great works in literature, and composition. The first four years at Bluestone all students par- ticipate in the same English program, but in their senior year college bound students are given a course to pre- pare them for college while business students are given a course to prepare them for their life’s work. Instructing the students in this important field are: Mrs. Hilda Collins, Mrs. Agnes Jeffreys, Mrs. Calais Blevins, Miss Shirley Albertson, Miss Polly Batts, and Mrs. Rebecca Moses. Skinner Chumney reads SILAS MARNER to Miss Albertson ' s tenth-grade English class. in ninth grade English. | 12 ! i

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In Mrs. Chappell ' s Plane Geometry class, Arlene Boswell and Chandler Williams show the class the solution to a difficult problem. MATH AND SCIENCE General math, algebra, plane and solid geometry, and trigonometry are the math courses taught by Mrs. Rachel Pixley, Mrs. Martha Chappell, Mrs. Betty Crowder, and Mrs. Laura Bragg. The students discover that all these courses are quite exciting. The math ex- perience of the industrious student imprints upon him the final impression that math has been, and will continue t o be, both pleasant and profitable. Connie Tate and Randolph Williams find the product of a number on the slide rule, in third year algebra. 14