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

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Library and Guidance Extend Helping Hands Mrs. Helen M. Peacock, AB, BS Library Mrs. Rebecca M. Shepard, AB, MEd Guidance Coun- seling Lurking behind the e v e r y d a y problems of overdue books, unpaid fines, and noise are the major difficulties ofour library — lackof shelf space and enrollment increase which lowers our books per capita. In spite of these problems, Mrs. Helen Peacock sti 1 1 strives to maintain the long-established standard of twenty books per pupil. In an effort to provide a balanced collection, the library has recently ocquired eight hundred books which expand our collection to 13,000 volumes. As in previous years, memorial funds enable the library to buy new materials and equipment. To the serious student at CHHS, our library provides essential references to supplement classroom work. Mrs. Peacock continues to offer the rigorous library orientation course as part of the sophomore English curriculum . Moreover, student assistants facilitate the many activities of the library and enable it to function efficiently and effectively. Atone time oranother, Mrs. Rebecca Shepard chides, consoles, or chats with every student at CHHS. Rising sophomores turn to the guidance counselor for assistance in outlining a tentative three-year course of study . Apprehensive seniors look to her to locate the ideal col lege campus and to pol ish up dozens oftranscripts which will persuade Harvard to offer the applicants nothing less than full scholarships. Students eyeing a bank account immediately after graduation seek heradvice on employment, often making use of a new occupational file in her office . Her waiting room is a Iways c ro w d e d; her office is always in use; Mrs. Shepard is always in demand. Last summer she extended her invaluable services beyond the high school as Director of Student Personnel at the Governor ' s School . Mrs. Peacock inspects a flood of returned books. A student seeks information about college early-decision programs from Mrs. Shepard. 17

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Dr. Thompson puzzles over equipment for the new high school . All Eyes Turn Toward Facilities of 1966 Planning the construction of our future high school has occupied the majority of Superintendent Howard Thompson ' s time during his third year as chief adminis- trator for Chapel Hill CitySchools. Schedu led for completion in the summer of 1 966, the spacious new school, which is patterned after Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro, will have an eighty acre campus and a capacity for 1200 students. Last fa 1 1 stra ins of H e II o Howard hera Ided Dr . Thompson at a banquet held in his honor by the local unit of NECA and CTA . Furthermore, even though he owes his sou I to the whole school board, m e I o d i o u s members of our CHHS faculty considered him worthy of their crooning . Voted Tarheel of the Week in November for her de- voted service to CHHS, our principal Miss May Marshbanks is the only woman to serve asa publ ic high school principal in North Carolina . Aside from her regu lar duties in direct- ing ouradministration, she frequently dons her green coat and squishy shoes to trudge up to CHHS in order to pep up the furnace. She is also eagerly looking forward to a wider field of opportunities for her c h i I d r e n in our future school . As part of her job. Miss Marshbanks reviews transcripts for seniors ' appl ications to college. 16

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Secretary Mrs. Tripp records a discussion on school policies by school board members Reverend J. R. Manley, Dr . Fred Ellis, Mrs . Ross E . Scroggs, Mr. GrayCulbreath, Mr. Edwin W . Tenney, Dr . Howard E. Thompson, and Mr. Ben E. Perry. School and Community Combine Elected representatives of both Chapel Hill and Carrboro serve as members of the school board. They are responsible for al I policy decisions pertaining to the Chapel Hill City School System— those concerning C HHS include curriculum changes, general regulations, and, currently, outlining of facilities for the new high school. As part of the PTSA, the faculty, students, and their parents work together for the welfare of the school and pupils. With the construction of the new high school, they postponed all major projects. Nevertheless, the association donated last fall to CHHS two activity buses which transport students to many of the games out of town . As in other years, the PTA Thrift Shop f i nances many of the association ' s projects. Student office assistants perform a variety of tasks: running errands, taking telephone messages, checking attendance cards and excuses, as well as sorting mail, depositing money, and acting as receptionists. In supervising this group. Ginger Kinney handles general secretarial work . Bookkeeping in addition to the typing of transcripfsand letters, are also part of her duties . Seniors Mary Mac Gregg, Jan Scroggs, Patti Terrill, and Marybeth El lis wonder if the bus will survive its next trip. Office workers Judy Johnson, Carolyn Davis, Jean Douglas, and Barbara Hearn busy themselves while Linda Honeycutt answers the telephone. 18