Brunswick Academy - Viking Yearbook (Lawrenceville, VA)

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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

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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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Fall Festival, Stew, Sports Dinners The cameraman receives a defiant look from Mrs. Jones as she holds on to her hard-earned possessions at the 1975 Fall Festival. Mr. Jim Woodruff awards the Outstanding Sports Commentator plaque to Rich Clary of WLES, who has handled BA football play-by-play for several years. Above: As guest speaker Frank Soden looks on, athletic club president Pete Proctor presents plaques honoring the 1975 varsi- ty football and girls’ basketball players to athletic director Jim Woodruff. Left: In the sports corner at the Fall Festival are sports buffs Bill Young, Kell Fleshood, and Mr. Dave Newsom. 30 - Athletic Club and PTO