Chapel Hill High School - Hill Life Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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i i it 3 M 'A S. MARTHA GILL We dedicate the 1962 HILLIFE to a teacher who has shown special concern for us both in and out of school and has been an inspiration to us through her teaching. In appreciation for this time and talent that she has shared with us, we honor, through this HILLIFE dedication, Mrs. Martha Gill. Recognition of her

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Spirited class discussions and enthusiasm characterize English III classes. Mrs. Gill has devoted many class and after- school hours to the PROCONIAN, Chapel Hill High School's award-winning, bi-weekly news- paper. Under her direction it has continued to be an excellent newspaper and has won several awards including the SIPA first place award and NSPA first place award. She has seen the PRO- CONIAN through such crises as impending bankt ruptcy, late stories, wrong- size pictures, the paper back too late to be delivered to the stu- dents, and the daily schedule disrupted by snow. This year to further publicize CHHSers' activ- ities, she has instigated a weekly radio program, In's and Out's, devoted to the news of CHI-IS. Mrs. Gill uses a chart in explaining PLATQ'S REPUBLIC to a group of interested seniors. In the classroom Mrs. Gill has imparted to us her enthusiasm for her subject and has mo- tivated us to have a real interest in everything from Hemingway to Ben Franklin. Her comic dramatizations of vocabulary words and figures ofspeech and her sparkling accounts of movies, television programs, and short stories have add- ed much to the interest of her classes. Her own love for poetry has inspired many students to have a greater appreciation and enthusiasm for poetry. In the newly formed Creative Writing class she has encouraged her students to seek per- fection in their writing style and at the same time to experiment with many different forms. Many hours are spent after school working on the PROCONIAN under the direction ofMrs. Gill. Very generous with her time, Mrs. Gill has spent manyfhours after school and on week-ends working with us on all sorts of activities. Her original ideas and plain hard labor have been an integral part of Junior fund- raising projects and Junior- Seniors of the past two years. Typical ofthis imagination were her impromptu singing to amuse the children at the cartoon show when the movie projector broke down, her arranging to transport the stranded donkeys to the carniv al, and her last-minute suggesting of a way to decor- ate the unexpectedly bare gym wall for the Junior- Senior. In addition to these Junior ac- tivities she has spent one evening every two weeks with a Senior discussion group. , Enthusiasm And Interest, 'E l l 1 I ,N in I ...gd