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

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N303 + H20 Equals HQSQJ' r Hafer alds Xlgebra H students Students who wlshed to further thelr edu CdIlOIl after graduatlon chose the college preparatory course Subjects taught lI1 thls field met the general entrance requlrements of Class A colleges Boys and g1rls w1th thelr eyes set on college lnfe took the followmg classes four tears of Engllsh two years each of sclence algebra and phy slcal educatlon and one year each of plane geometry, L S hlstorx, 1nd senlor Nllss V ICWIS dlstrlbutes maternal for chem1strx lab CIXICS Ilectnes offered to college preparatorx puplls were world hlstory, L H1 I II III dI1lSl1 I II chenustry tx plng solld ge ometrx and trlgonometrx In order to produce well equlpped gradu ates thls course had hlgh scholastlc requxre ments Only those students who made A superlor B aboxe axerage or C axer age were ehglble for college recommendatlon +cf14fk+ 9 V, 'lf 1 r . 5 Y . . - . v. 4. . v 1 I I 'K v v 'vw , Q , ' l v .rv ,Y 1 ' .Vw . ca Sv , - ' . - . . , , - . . v v v gc ,Q . ' . 1 , ' . , ' ' , L4 M , Y . tc 75 V , . 1 . . , 1 1 ' 7 . . Q V ' Y . . . 7 , T . Y C . fl W

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Reoc:Iin', 'Ri'rin', 'Rithmetic, Taught . . Student presents oral book report 1n Nllss I I-Iaga s Fngllsh I In carrylng out plans made by the hlgh school faculty and County School Board, Culpeper Hlgh School played a dual role III educatlon Its two purposes worked hand m hand, for one dealt w1th the growth and 1m provement of students mental and physlcal ab1l1t1es the other, w1th the development of good c1t1zensh1p qual1t1es Requlrements for graduation consisted of five years of secondary education and at least 16 Carnegie umts These credlts had to be acqulred dur1ng the last four years of hlgh school ln whlch students had a cholce of three courses college preparatory commerc1al and general In the eighth grade the first year of h1gh school each student took Engllsh mathematics, sclence, soclal stud1es, and four nme week exploratory courses whlch alded hlm ln the selectlon of hls program for the other years of hlgh school The faculty set aslde five days at the end of each slx weeks for tests at the close of the thlrd and last slx week perlods students took semester exammatlons Both the exams and tests counted as one thlrd of the pernodlc grades Upon compxlmg these grades, teachers Issued report cards and placed on the honor roll the names of all puplls making no lower than B on academlc work and satnsfactory on conduct To prex ent neglect of scholastic work due to extreme partlclpatlon ln extracurrncular act1v1t1es C H S used a pomt system whlch gave a defimte number of po1nts for member ship or offices 1n school organxzatxons Every student could carry I2 club credlts Junlors wlth A or B averages were allowed I4 po1nts and semors makmg that grade also, I6 po1nts To hold an office ln a school orgamzatlon the admmlstratlon requlred the boy or glrl to have passed all work durmg the precedmg semester and to have made an average of satlsfactory on conduct m each class -mf 1351- . . , . , . . . ' ' ' . ' as ax - - 7 - , . . . . , , . ' ' ll sv as 77 ' 7 1 , S , . .. I

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Asseis 1 Liabilities fs Proprieiorship Agni' Xlrs H XlcC1ll txplams hooltltu pm prohlcm Office practice student dtnionstrfiws thc use of mxmco Students desiring to specn 1l1Le m secretarlal or inx phase of clerlcil xsorlt entered the busmess course The required academic classes in this fleld tx ping and shorthand 'Ind one x ear each of l S lllstorx senior clxlcs husmcss dI'lIhlDCI1C gen cr'1l m lIl1CIH1IlC9 science general husmcss lvooltltee m And x cxtlr nil office tramm g Io complete the essential I6 umts, bots and glrls chose electnes from the college preparatorx graph machine field as well is art band glee club d1NCl'SlflCd occupations, or dlstrlbutlve educatlon other tx pes of mathematics, Journallsm shop and agrlculture and the partlclpants found careful accurate and speedx work a IICCCSSIIX Thus those students xx ho graduated m thls field were readx to enter dxrectlx into the business world, or to further their educ it,1OIl m business schools llvrf' Q V. W- i Z 3 1 . , 15 ,. f ,, . .' . . '. j ':i,- ,- ' z 1' z ' ' .t ' I -' h , x . . . . n 'Y I , 7 . were four years of Iinglishg two years each of Here, too. standards were reasonably high, . . .C 1 gt . .Y - Q I . r I n . , . I, . - ' ., . . 'tt ' ,I - . '7 ' Y ' ' .I J. , . ' ,z 'ozoz . ' 5' .. ' h, .f if