Covington High School - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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Mr. W. R. Beazley, Superintendent, portrays the role of supervisor, executive, orgonzier, and community leader. His duties are many: to discover educational needs and to see how fully the school system ministers to the needs, to advise the board intelligently and to distribute responsibility, to educate the people as to the larger needs of their school, and to supervise and improve instruction within the schools. V. P. I. University of Virginia LEADING TONES The School Board of the City of Covington is selected primarily os a board of school control, to determine type of schools to be provided, to adopt rules and regulations governing the board in its transactions of school business, and all employees of the school department, to adopt a salary sched- ule for the school system, to determine the annual budget, and to present properly to the people the work and needs of the schools, and the policies of the school department. Ralph Stettner, Harold Love, Superintendent Beazley, Chairman A. L. Blankenship, Clerk Charlotte Wright, Norwood Tingler, and Jack Persinger.

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Mr. Wolter R. Curfman, A.B. Principal St, John ' s College University of Maryland Teachers often seek Mr. Curfman ' s advice. Here, Mr. Robertson and Mr. Steele hold a hall dissertation with him. Mr. John S. Heretick, B.A., M.A. Assistant Principal St. Charles College University of Virginia One of the busiest denizens of CHS is Mr. Heretick, our Assistant Principal, dealer in moneys, athletics, languages, and counseling. One of his many responsibilities is exemplified as he faithfully opens the safe every morning. )8

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Lois Drewry B.S., Madison College, English. Nancy B. Hicks Mo rie Lawless A.B., Erskine College, English. B.S., M.A., Radford College, Uni- versity of Virginia, English. DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH Virginia Martin A.B., M.A., Concord College, West Virginia University, Eng- lish. Paul Steele B.A., Beaver Falls College, Eng- lish, Student Council Advisor. Diction and poise ore two major problems attacked by senior English this year. Mrs. Lawless uses a tape recorder to help Sue Hodges and students ocquire these traits. GUIDANCE One of the most anxious times of the year is the return of Col- lege Board Scores. Here students discuss scores with Miss Thomas, and perhaps they wonder if anticipation were not better than fact. Helen Thomas B.S., M.A., Longwood College, University of Virginia, Columbia Uni- versity, Counselor, Stu- dent Council Advisor.