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

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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.

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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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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS First row, left to right: Jean Pierce, Betty Lou Burke. Secord rov : Mr. Floyd Binns, Thomas Colvin, Stanley Brown. { 16 F