Central High School - Sword and Shield Yearbook (Victoria, VA)

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JUNIORS JUNIORS BUSINESS BREAKDOWN Did you ever feel like throwing your typewriter out the window? This feeling aroused on those Mon- day mornings following a long weekend when the teacher tested you with three 5-minute timed writ- ings. Remember in steno. I trying to form one short- hand symbol differently from another or trying to read them after your little brother colored what he thought was just a page of pretty designs? And never forget the impossible task of hiding those incorrect- able errors from Mr. Arvin Hawk Eyes Bell. What was it like using a calculator? Well, usually it wasn ' t bad, but recall the Friday afternoon that your teacher was in a terrible mood and your elbow knocked the calculator onto the floor. Hoping that no one was looking, you quietly gathered up the pieces and wondered if working an office compared to the hassles of high school business classes. Once again Ray Gallion finds himself at the mercy of his accounting book. Business person ' s attire? On ' Tie ' Em Up Day ' Linda Covington models journal and adding machine, as he concentrates on making the correct entries informal example of what she hopes will become the casual business into his machine. person ' s look of the future. 98 Business Education

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DR. JEKYLL AND MR. FROG Do you have rocks in your head? Probably so if you took science. Rocks aren ' t all you ' ve got in your head, though. There are also rivers, stars, chemicals, and even frogs. In the beginning you discovered Earth-Space science. Here you saw the formation of the earth, stars, and far-away planets. The next step was life: Biology. Students, shocked by the arguments over the evolution of man, began falling off their stools; but they picked themselves up in time to see open-heart surgery performed on a frog. Student volunteers pricked their fingers and gave a little blood, not to the poor dying frog, but to Mrs. Potts to determine their blood types. Students were on their own as they moved up to Chemistry, now on the work at your own rate contract system. Students performed experiments to observe physical and chemical changes, but the most obvious change was in the students themselves. With the simple addition of goggles and aprons they transformed from normal students into bug-eyed Dr. Jekylls. Despite popping nitro- gen and smelly gasses, the worst task for the young chemists was washing dishes. The final science available was Physics. Since the students couldn ' t charter a rocket ship and blast off into outerspace, they settled for the next best thing, a visit to Morehead Planetarium. One night as they huddled out on the football field searching the heavens through the trusty telescope, they zoomed in on Jupiter and five of its moons, as well as our own moon. Another night this group gathered on Mrs. Barnes ' s farm to photograph star trails. This class had really put their energy into motion. Bernard Tisdale measures to discover how much weight and force it takes for Jo-Jeen Rusak to move an object in Physics. See Anything? Mrs. Potts focuses the microscope and scans for organisms while Jeanette Davis watches in Biology. Sublimation, the process of a solid changing directly to a gas, is observed in Chemistry class by George Clark and Donnie Kendrick. Earth-Space science students search for materials to help them finish their modules. Science 97

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Sandra Ragsdale Clarence Reese Daryl Rich Shirley Robertson Ginger Robinette Theresa Ryals Frances Seaborn Randolph Seward Danny Slaughter Madeline Smith Evelyn Smithson David Strange Frank Tanner Beulah Thomas Collins Thomas Brenda Thompson Kent Thompson Barbara Tisdale Jeff Wadford Glinda Watson Lynette Watson Lynne Watson Rosa Webb Michael Whitehead Mrs. Winn explains to Goldie Marker how to change typewriter ribbon, a must Hup, two, three, four: Paula Conyers discovers that learning to carry for the future typist. herself well will be an asset to her businesslike manner as she completes her demonstration, the old ' balance a book on your head ' routine. Juniors 99