Brunswick Academy - Viking Yearbook (Lawrenceville, VA)

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Commercial Builds Business Skills To prepare students for positions in the business world, the Commercial Department offers instruction in a variety of subjects. Students striving to take Shorthand dictation a little faster each day acquire valuable skills. Amid clacking typewriters, other students work for speed and accuracy which are essentials in the secretarial field. Bookkeeping, General Business, and Business Math are designed to benefit students as budding accountants, consumers, and businessmen. Upper right: Mrs. Mary H. Raiford, Bookkeeping, Shorthand I and II and Typing II teacher. Lower left: Mrs. Marie G. Thompson, Typing I and II and Business Math teacher. Lower right: Mrs. Betty M. Grigg, General Business, Math 8 and 9 and Science 9 teacher. 14

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HP. Nolen Assumes Academy Leadership It is a real pleasure for me to extend salutations to the viewer of this year’s Yearbook and to extend to the staff THE ACADEMY’S commendation for a “job- well-done” in the production of the 1972 edition. The Staff of the Yearbook has worked hard to pro- duce a superior book for THE ACADEMY. This work, on their part, is one indication of the many challenges before us to operate a superior school for THE ACA- DEMY FAMILY. It is rewarding to all of us to see stu- dent and faculty groups accept the challenge to pro- duce quality and superiority representative of Brunswick Academy. Our very best regards are extended to each mem- ber of THE ACADEMY FAMILY as we build on the foun- dations of the past to fulfill the many aspirations THE ACADEMY has for the future. With a positive approach, widespread support, and personal contributions by so many fine people, THE ACADEMY has assurance of superior attainment and ultimate SUCCESS in all endeavors. 13

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Grammar, Literature Draw English Attention The English Department at Brunswick Academy offers a progression and variety of courses to im- prove the BA students’ proficiency in reasoning and expression and also to expose him to the sources of the greatest ideas contained in the literature of the ancient and modern worlds. Through exercises in structural grammar, vocabu- lary building, composition, reading and speaking, the BA student learns the rudiments of English and at the same time is afforded the opportunity to begin to develop himself to an optimum level of cultural aware- ness, understanding and proficiency. If he so chooses, the BA English scholar is equipped not only to ‘‘get along” but, in the words of Aeschy- lus, to actively do his part ‘‘to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world.” I 3 Upper left: Mrs. Doris Jones, English 8 and History 8 teacher. Lower left: Dwayne E. Holland, English 10 and 11 teacher. Lower right: Robert E. Martin, English 11, 12, and Advanced English teacher. 15