Culpeper County High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Culpeper, VA)

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JhsL JIvuul fiX. in. fikiwuL A — Albegra II class of first period is pictured above. Taught by Mrs. J. A. B. Davies, it is one of the classes in the college preparatory course. B — The above picture is of a Civics IV class, taught by Mr. Floyd Binns. Civics is one of the subjects required of all graduates, and is usually taken in the senior year. C — The Spanish class shown above is the only foreign language other than Latin offered here. Spanish and Latin are usually taken by college preparatory students. D — The 8th grade music students pictured above are learning some of the fundamental principles of music. This is an exploratory course of the eighth grade and it runs for a nine-week period. Miss Rebecca Chappell teaches this class. E — Typing is one of the main subjects in the commercial course but is an elective for the other courses. Mrs. Robert Chilton is teaching a class of Typing I students in the picture above. F — Another of the subjects required of all graduates is English IV. Miss Gertrude Lewis teaches this course. This class studies principles of grammar and learns to appreciate English literature-

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{Riiiw and (JULhmsdid A broad field of subjects from which to choose their courses is offered to the students of Culpeper High. Three main courses of instruction are offered: the general course, the commercial course, and the college preparatory course. The general course is the basic high school course. It is designed especially for pupils who wish a practical education rather than the specialized college preparatory or commercial work. The general course equips boys and girls to be good citizens and homemakers and prepares them to enter any one of a number of practical vocations, including retail selling, farming, apprenticeships for mechanics, printers, plumbers, carpenters, and other trades. Some of the subjects required to graduate in the general ccurse are: four years of English, one year of mathemitics, one year of science, and one year each of civics and U. S. History. The commercial course is planned for pupils desiring to specialize for secretarial or commercial posi- tions. The standards in this course are very high so as to give assurance that only those pupils who are sure they wish to enter the secretarial and commercial fields take the course. Pupils taking the commercial course must demonstrate ability to do careful, accurate, and speedy work in the required subjects. The subjects necessary frr graduation under the commercial course are: one unit of senior civics, one of science, two of typing, two of shorthand, one of bookkeeping, and one unit of vocational bookkeeping and office practice. Students taking the commercial course are allowed two electives. The third course in Culpeper High is the college preparatory. This course includes the subjects considered necessary for doing successful scholastic work in a top grade college. The scholastic require- ments for this course are high and only those pupils who average C” or above in the required subjects will be recommended for college entrance. The subjects offered in this course are four units of English, two units of science, one of U. S. History, senior civics, two of algebra, one of plane geometry, and one half unit of solid geometry and trigonometry. Some of th; electives offered to these students are world history, Latin, Spanish, chemistry, physics, and typing. As the eighth grade now stands, it is an integral part of the high school. It serves to bridge the gap between elementary and high school education. Eighth grade pupils are given an opportunity to explore their interest and abilities by try-out courses in art, agriculture, general business, industrial art, home economics, music, and science. The eighth grade course places special emphasis upon the under- standing and practice of good citizenship in a democracy. The school has a program of physical education. In these classes students participate in sports and have health lessons, all of which is for the betterment of the students’ health and physical fitness. These classes are held in the gymnasium during the winter months. To serve the nearly five hundred students of Culpeper High in their school work, there are more than 5,000 volumes in the library. These volumes consist of some of the most up-to-date references, fiction, and non-fiction books. The library subscribes to 5 0 magazines and 3 newspapers. The science work is carried on in a laboratory with modern equipment and a large supply of chemicals. A 13 y

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Drawn from the entire county, students in Culpeper High School travel over historic soil to and from school. Town students walk along the streets where 17-year-old George Washington served as county surveyor, commissioned by the College of William and Mary; where the famed Minute Men gathered before they marched away to take part in the first battle of the Revolution in Virginia; the spot where stood the old court house in which the I 6 Justices of Peace protested the Stamp Act in 1765 and resigned their commissions; and, where during the War Between the States, more than a hundred thousand Federal soldiers were encamped within the limits of Culpeper County with headquarters in the town. Those students who ride one of the twelve buses coming from the various sections of the county likewise ride where some time in the past, history making events took place. Spread over the territory from Brown ' s store on the Madison road, across the Sperryville Pike, the Eldorado road, and as far as Muddy Run on the Rixeyville road, Federal soldiers encamped on the areas crossed by many of the school bus routes. Over what is now the Brandy road near Inlet station, General J. E. B. Stuart ' s whole command passed in review before its commanding general, Robert E. Lee, the day previous to the fierce battle between Federal and Confederate cavalry, in which about I 5,000 cavalrymen were engaged. Buses cross the Cedar Mountain battlefield seven miles south of the town of Culpeper, where Stonewall Jackson met and repulsed the attack of Banks ' corps of Pope ' s army, driving the Union forces through the town. In the following section you will see pictures of the boys and girls who come from the historic territory described in the previous paragraphs, and who constitute the five classes of the high school. In the picture the loaded buses are ready to return the students to their homes in the county.