Clover Hill High School - Ducemus Yearbook (Midlothian, VA)

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Polyglots’ Show Foreign Language Week is always a major event of the school year in every foreign language department. This year Foreign Language Week was celebrated with an assembly, bons mots over the PA system, and a culminating banquet. One of the highlights of the assembly was the French Club’s version of “Cinde- rella” featuring Ron Mancini as the fairy god-mother. Ron’s portrayal was unique. He wore a tu-tu and rode a skateboard. The Latin Club, dressed in traditional Roman togas, held a mock debate on Women’s Lib which generated such pas- sion that the “Fonz” had to eventually settle the debate down. “Love Will Keep us Together” sung in Spanish finished the Spanish Club’s skit- : —— ’ a, “typical” classroom scene, in which “Flave no fear, your fairy god-mot re, loud smacking of enormous wads of says Ron Mansini.as he participates in th : : - French Class’ production during Foreign Lan- gum and the throwing of spitballs were guage Week. If the shoe fits ... Carol Farrand prominently featured. plays Cinderella in the French Class’ produc- The week’s celebration ended with a tion. Welcome back, Rickman? Mr. Rickman is for rcuident A ti instructs his Spanish Class in a demonstration anique nS AIS il OCS OLE he EMMA during Foreign Language Week. : dishes being served to parents. The bon mot for that day was “bon appetit.” Foreign Language 13

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Jericho in Reverse When the 1975-76 school year began, the library’s appearance had not changed from the previous year. It was still that colossal open space in the middle of the upper level of the school. But in October boxes began to arrive, and after these, the workmen invaded our halls, disturbing classes with their hammering and drilling. The walls went up and so did the students’ tempera- Library Assistants (top—front row): Sharri Harris, Felicia Cummings, Paula Wright, Judy Watson, Beverly Wright, Cindy Crafton, Tammy Clark, An- nette Atkinson, Helen Wilson, (back row) Barry Driver, Tommy Rutledge, Mark Trimmer. Minding the store (above) Felicia Cummings and Annette Atkinson stamp due dates in Angela and Cathy Harris’ books. All eyes and ears (above right) Miss Kathy Bozart and Mrs. Janice Temple closely observe an audio-visual presentation being given in the IMC. “There she blows!” (right) Mark Tri- mmer, Barry Driver, and Tommy Rutledge keep the AV equipment in ship-shape order. Here they change a bulb in an overhead projector. 12 IMC tures. They had become accustomed to the open space and considered the walls a threat to Clover Hill’s uniqueness. Why the sudden enclosure? In 1974- 75, over 600 books were stolen from the library. The walls were put up as a secu- rity measure against the thefts. Whether or not the walls served their purpose re- mains to be seen, but the walls are there to stay.

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Look Over There! (right) Mrs. Jo Armstrong’s ninth grade English class spells out words in the air to help them learn spelling words more easily. Dam- erel Wingfield for the prosecution. (middle right) Prosecution lawyers Buddy Damerel and Gina Wingfield present their case in the mock trial in which they prosecuted the Cavalier Review for libal against teacher Mrs. Beverly Lacy. -Hippie mocks mom-— (bottom right) Ron Mansini, Charlie McBride, Mark White and Mike Farrand act out vo- cabulary words in Mrs. Mary Jo Lux’s English class. Cyborgs Turned On This year the English department dis- covered a key to turn on the cyborgs of Clover Hill High School—elective courses. Elective courses held so much appeal that students took extra English courses for elective credits in addition to those taken for required English credits. “American Folklore, Psychology of Self, Cowboys and Indians, Perspectives on Death, Bible as Literature, Futuristics, et cetera, et cetera—l won't be in school long enough to take all the English | want. Can | take a postgraduate course?” said one frustrated Cavalier. Not only did the subject matter hold enticement for the Cavaliers but the methods , which were less orthodox, ac- tively involved the students. From mak- Theatre in class (above) The VCU Players perform inprovisations before a capacity crowd of English students in the chorus room. 14 English ing a movie or television tape to holding a mock jury trial of The Cavalier Review, accused of libel and presided over by the Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney, Phillip Daffron, the students enthusi- astically participated in learning more about communications. In Bible and Futuristics, students con- structed and played board games; in vo- caculary classes they made jigsaw puz- zles and dramatized words. Again this year, the Virginia Commonwealth Uni- versity Players presented dramas in- cluding Spoon River Anthology and Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, and the American Folklore class celebrated the bicentennial when they experienced “big recess” with jump-rope, marbles, and group games. Yee