Brunswick Academy - Viking Yearbook (Lawrenceville, VA)

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YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT WE HAVE TO LEARN! ... In order to get his test papers back earlier, Mr. Blick often works before the bell rings for math classes. 1 he mathematics department at B.A. is full of courses available to stu- dents. Beginning with Pre-Algebra in the eighth grade, through Advanced Mathe- matics in the twelfth, the years are full of everything from simple addition to com- plicated trigonometry. Mrs. Lee Warren now teaches pre-alge- bra, which she hasn’t done in the past at this school. She must provide eighth grad- ers with their first contact with the sub- ject, as well as the principles of algebra. In the ninth grade, Mr. Fred Creasy takes over with Algebra I. In this year, the students continue in their basic work, As an Algebra II student, Pier Ferguson is familiar with the “do your homework in class” method. Many students begin their assignments early. and learn more techniques to aid them. In the third year (or the tenth grade), students begin the first of their three years under Mr. T. E. Blick, Jr. This first year is geometry, which is quite new to the stqdents. Previously, only in the seventh grade have they studied this. Not rust they learn methods of solving they must know their theorems to use in the proofs, and in various ways on tests. As a junior, the student takes up alge- bra again, this time in Algebra II. Some- how, this year is quite different from the previous year of algebra. Finally there is advanced math in the final year. This year is quite different from all of the four years before. 28 - Mathematics

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A SCHOOL FULL OF SONG T ■ he yearly achievements in the fine arts department at Brunswick Acad- emy vary, but the students always receive something to remember. In the music department, the highlight was their introduction of the new school alma mater. Mrs. Bette Milam, who teach- es in the middle school, wrote the lyrics to the song, and her mother, Mrs. R. L. Saffelle of Emporia, wrote the music. Mrs. Wood originally asked the two if such a task would be possible, and the result was a new song, which was pre- sented to the choral club. They practiced it with Mrs. Saffelle, and finally it was presented to the school at an assembly. Now it seems as though the words are on everyone’s tongue, and it is hoped that it will be used at all of the assemblies. In the other half of the fine arts de- partment, the art classes came up with another theme for their annual projects for the art room at Christmas. The stu- dents went home one night and watched a CBS — Television special, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Soon they were back in the classroom working with papier-mache and other materials to as- semble models and likenesses of the major characters in the show. These in- cluded the host, Burl Ives. As a student or parent entered the completed art room, he was greated by Burl Ives as the snow- man-host. Then he saw Rudolph himself. There was the Island of Misfit Toys, Santa Claus, the goldminer, elves, and replicas of the toys themselves. All of this was done by the art classes this year, except Santa Claus, who was a holdover from last year, but with a new nose-job. The choral club has presented some- thing that will last hopefully as long as the school does, and the art club has built a set of figures that will disappear from school, but they will hopefully convert the room into “Christmas” again next year. Choral music continues to be a popu- lar course here, and perhaps in the future there will be boys in the chorus as well as the girls. Art is popular with both boy and girl students, and both seem to be equally creative. In the land of “Rudolph,” in the art room, the King of the Misfit Toys is enthroned. One of the characters from the “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” special was a goldminer as represented by the art classes in their room at Christmas. FINE ARTS... Fine Arts - 27

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. . . EVERYBODY ' S DOING IT! Above: For typing class, sometimes students write Below: Before class begins, Treva Carter catches out papers in longhand before typing them. up on some obviously surprising latebreaking news. Above: During the last fleeting moments of lunch break, Mrs. Tuck cleans up a classroom. Because of its practicality, the voca- tional department is one of the most popu- lar with students. The skills they learn in this department usually come into use after schooling, especially for those who go into secretarial work. The main course in the department is typing, a skill that most people say “every- body needs to know.” One student re- marked that everybody needed to know it who had a hand-writing like his. In bookkeeping, students find their workbooks helpful in using the fundamen- tals they have learned. Shorthand is the third of the courses. It is like “another language,” or a separate way of writing which is strictly for secre- taries and business workers. The other courses are drafting, two levels of “one of the most wide open fields,” Business Math, which is now taught as a mixture of business math and Math 8, and Business English, in which students learn business letter writing, and other similar things. With the department still growing, there could be a time in the future when every- one in the high school is taking some kind of vocational course. . . .VOCATIONAL. . Vocational - 29