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

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Subjects Prepare for Modern Living Up and Over — I. Bryson, left picture, vaults the horse in physical education class while D. Price waits her turn. J. C owell, W. Owens, and Miss F. Myers, right picture clockwise, encircle, “birdie in the cage,” B. Hudson. Considered basic to high school instruction, the general course gives a practical education to those students who do not want specialized commercial or pre-college training. Two years of math and one year of science are necessary in the general course as in the commercial course. Electives that general course students take vary according to individual plans for the future. A student in this course may select his electives from the complete list of subjects offered by the high school. Electives most frequently chosen by the general course stu- dents are .Agriculture I, II, III, IV, general art, art appreciation. Home Economics I, II, III, IV, General Shop I, II, III, mechanical drawing, biology, diversified occupations (open Scientists Experiment — J. Vrabel, R. Wood, and A. of the bell and telephone. W. Abernethy and y Mitchell, Estes, left picture, get first-hand knowledge of the operation right picture, prepare iodine in the chemistry lab. 19 p-

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Classes Offer Three R’s and More Macbeth Reigns Again — S. Frazier. D. Wolfrey, and R. Keys, left picture. put finishing touches to bulletin board in Miss G. Lewis’s F.nglish class. Right picture, “.Macbeth,” C. ’ernon, is greeted by “witches,” C. Haught and B. Lipscomb, in scene from Macbeth enacted by senior English students. In the vocational office training program busi- ness students receive special instruction in the use of business machines and apply this know- ledge in afternoon jobs in local business offices. They are supervised on the job by the voca- tional office training co-ordinator, Mrs. William Houck. Those who take office practice receive train- ing in the use of machines in the classroom but Records and Do Re Mi’s — S. Singleton and C. iseman, left picture, listen to Strauss’s Waltzes for music appreci- ation in Mr. R. Crockett’s eighth grade music exploratory do not work outside of the school. The com- mercial course requires one year of science and two of mathematics — general methematics and business arithmetic. Although the CHS commercial training enables the business students to enter their work immediately after graduating, they some- times decide to further their abilities by enter- ing a secretarial school. I course. J. Myers gives P. Hoffman and .M. Parker, right picture, the alto and soprano pitch for one of the songs i practiced during the Glee Club period. • ]{ 18

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Curriculum Offers Other Cultures only to juniors and seniors). In the diversified occupations program stu- dents attend regular classes of the required subjects — English, history, civics, math, and science — and a diversified occupations class in the morning and work in various jobs in the afternoon. Band, an elective open to all students, may be taken all five years with a ] 2 Carnegie unit credit per year for each of the last four years. Physical education, also worth ] 2 Carnegie credit after the eighth grade, is required for the first three years and may be taken the junior and senior year if the student wishes. Projects, Voice Recording Highlight Classes — D. Triplett and T. Rafter, upper left picture, observe United States map in Miss L. Botts’ eighth grade history class. G. Curtis, R. Hawkins, B. Landis, and X. Graves, upper right, exhibit L ' . S. history projects. H. Hitt and B. Payne, loiver left, use card index of library to find the books they need. Spanish student, lo’uter right picture, G. Poulson, center, tests his accent as classmates C. Martin and S. Haught hold mike and work controls of the recording machine. »■( 20 )■•