Caruthersville High School - Cotton Blossom Yearbook (Caruthersville, MO)

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Our Library Helps Prepare Students for Space Age Many C.l-LS. sTudenTs are Turning Their ThoughTs To rockeTs, missiles, Trips To Venus and Mars and To The besT fuels To use Tor pam MRS. ARTIE MOODIE, school librarian, gives helpful as- sisfance To Ann Sewell. The bulletin board display is Typical of The many aTTracTive book displays arranged by Mrs. Moodle throughouT The year. THE REFERENCE CORNER is a busy place and a mighty handy Thing to have around, as Avis, SpeighT, and Dorris seern To know. MRS. GEORGE BROWN, study hall supervisor, smiles ap- provingly as Joyce Adkins checks The sTudy hall roll. L The Trip, according To our librarian, Mrs. ArTie Moodie. And They are very wise Too, Mrs. Moodie commenTs, Tor all These Things are going To play an increasingly imporTanT parT in our lives. Be- cause oT This new inTeresT our library added an impressive collecTion of books on all phases oT space Travel and exploraTion This year. Speaking oT space, we could really use some more in our refer- ence corner -boTh shelf space Tor reference books, and work space Tor The increased number oT sTudenTs using reTerence books. Apparently more and more sTudenTs are learning The wisdom of supplemenTing Their Textbook maTerial. Mrs. Moodie and Mrs. George Brown, sTudy hall supervisor, had a fine corps oT sTudenT librarians This year. They were Helen Mc- Ternan, Rita McNeil, Gene Hayden, Larry Davis, Glenda Speight, Georgia Goodale, .ChrisTine ReicherT, Sandra Hundhausen, Barbara KlinkhardT, Gaye Fisher, anol Judy Corbin. Larry Thrasher, Larry BarneTT, anol John Vick made posTers. MRS. ARTIE MOODIE, school librarian and co-sponsor of The S.A.C., has been with C.H,S. Tor twelve years. She received her BS. degree aT The University of Missouri. Mrs. Moodie's favorite leisure Time ac- Tivities are reading and walking. MRS. GEORGE BROWN, our study hall supervisor, has been at C.H.S. for Ten years. For several of Those years she Taught social studies in C.H.S. Mrs. Brown received her A.B. degree at Oklahoma City Uni- versity. Among her hobbies are sewing and flower growing. 25

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24 Four Social Studies Courses Give Citizenship Training Training for intelligent, active citizenship in our community, nation, and the world is the purpose of our four social studies courses in C.H.S. Civics, taught by Mrs. Parker and Mr. Bruton, World Prob- lems, taught by Mr. Roome, and American History taught by Miss Horner, are required for freshmen, sophomores, and iuniors. A fourth course, American Problems, in which current political, social or economic issues in Amer- ican life are studied is an elective course for iuniors or seniors. In all these classes, class routine was varied this year by films and film strips, recordings, field trips, and numerous outside speakers. MISS HORNER, MR. ROOME, AND MRS. PARKER teach our social studies classes. MISS MARY ELLEN HORNER, who has taught in C.H.S. for twenty- four years, is the instructor in American history and American prob- lems. She is also the major Cotton Blossom advisor and a sophomore class sponsor. Miss Horner received her B.S. from the University of Missouri and her M.A. at Peabody College. Her hobbies are photog- raphy and fishing, and her other outside interests include P.E.O. and working in her church. MR. CHARLES ROOME teaches world problems and is a freshman class sponsor. He graduated from Southeast State College with a B.S. degree. His outside interests are fishing and hunting. He has taught in C.H.S. two years. MRS. LOUISE PARKER teaches English l and civics and co-sponsors the freshman class. She received her B.S. degree at Arkansas State College and M.A. from Memphis State, Her outside interests in- clude music, her church, and working with the boy scouts. This is Mrs. Parker's fifth year in C.H.S. PROUDLY DISPLAYING HER TROPHY won in the l Speak for Democracy Contest is Sandra Southern. Kay Burns and Ronnie Beck were other contestants in C.H.S. in this competition, a proi- ect of the American history classes. MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN PROBLEMS CLASS enioy a trip to the Court House to visit the County Court. These students and the civic classes learned about their community through a number of such field trips.

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