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

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For Future Leaders Jeanette Bledsoe and Benjamin Brown, top, do practice work on the new office equipment, the dictaphone. Mrs. Howard McCall, bottom, instructs students Shirley Whit- lock, Duane Dibble, Linda Guinn, and Betty Hitt on the use of the different ledgers in bookkeeping. The commercial cou rse was planned for stu- dents desiring to do secretarial or commercial work. Boys and girls who enroll in this course must have the ability to think clearly, and to do careful, accurate, and speedy work. Some Cul- peper High School graduates begin their full- time office work immediately after completing their high school commercial course; others prefer to further their skill by additional train- ing in a secretarial school or college. A student taking the commercial course must meet the basic graduation requirements common to all courses, he must have two units of mathematics including business arithmetic, and one of science, and he must complete the following commercial subjects: general busi- ness, office practice. Shorthand I and II, Typ- ing I and II, bookkeeping, and office practice. Many who take the commercial course do part-time work in various businesses during their last year of high school. This work pro- gram, designed to help students “learn by doing” is a part of the office practice class and is supervised by the office practice instructor. • ■{ 18 )■

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Various Fields of Learning Mr. Charles Stringfellow, top, shows Mr. John Long, ' incent Haught, and Ralph Atkins the newest tractor on the market. Miss Nancy Giles, practice teacher from Madison College, bottom, helps Edna Carroll, homemaking student, baste her dress. Culpeper High School offers three courses: general, college preparatory, and commercial. Basic graduation requirements common to all three courses are four units of English, one of United States history, and one of senior civics. For students not planning to attend college the general course is the most valuable of the courses offered. Before completing the general course, a student must have two units of math- ematics, and one of science, in addition to the basic subjects required of all. For the remain- der of the sixteen necessary units he may choose from a wide variety of electives includ- ing home economics, agriculture, shop, art, music, Latin, Spanish, chemistry, physics, journalism, biology, algebra, geometry, trigo- nometry, world history, DE, DO, and com- mercial subjects — business arithmetic, short- hand, bookkeeping, and typing — provided there is sufficient room in these classes. Boys and girls electing DE and DO, which may be taken during the junior and senior years only, come to school each morning and take a class in distributive education or diver- sified occupations in addition to their required subjects and then work in town in the afternoon.

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Of America Miss Laura Thornhill, top, shows Latin students Sarah Willis, Donna Callahan, Virginia Parker, Cherry Gorham, and Ann Rawlings, the picture of Venus de Milo which was presented to the school. Algebra students, bottom, Alexan- der Swan, Sarah Willis, Joyce Tutwiler, Jacquelin Coff- man, and Frederic Brault listen with attentive interest as Miss Margaret Brown explains the problem. Students planning to attend college follow the course of study known as the college pre- paratory course. Culpeper High School’s offering in this course is sufficiently broad to enable its gradu- ates to meet the entrance requirements of any college. Since entrance requirements for the various colleges differ somewhat, it is well for a college-bound student to decide upon a college as early as his sophomore year so that he can choose those subjects which will prepare him to enter the specific school of his choice. Only those students making “A”, “B”, or “C” grades are recommended for college. The college preparatory student must take the English, United States history, and civics required of all. fie must also have two units of algebra, one of plane geometry, and two of science. To complete his sixteen units for grad- uation he should choose from the following list of courses: Latin, Spanish, chemistry, physics, world history, solid geometry, trigonometry, and typing. In choosing he should be guided by the entrance requirements of the college he plans to attend. 19