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

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Curriculum Adds Higher Latin Class The purpose of Culpeper County High School is to help each student prepare himself for his future years by providing for him prevocational training. There are three programs of education offered — general, busi- ness, and college preparatory. A total of 23 Carnegie units is required for graduation except for the students in the accelerated program. The accelerated program is offered to students who possess special talent in academic courses. In the eighth grade they may take English g, General Science 9, Algebra I, Latin I, or Lmited States History and Geog- raphy 8. Their course also includes Health and Physical Education 8, guidance, and study hall. The students in this group must have maintained high grades throughout Future Homemakers — Mary Halle and Patsy Bragg, top left picture, clean up at the end of fifth period Home Economics. Carole Freed, top right picture, and Amelia Yancey are busy typing in typing class. Richard Bell, bottom left picture, quizzes Linda Queen, Judith Shelhorse, and Kenneth Gassman on angle measurements in plane geometry class. Judith Pugh, bottom right picture, exhibits an illustrated page from her English term paper to the other accelerated students, Linda Queen, Marsha Messick, Sharon Yowell, and Richard Bell.

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Efficient Hands Aid School ' s Program Mr. Edward Weld, left picture , helps Randolph Hash with his mechanical drawing. Miss Shirley Coates, center picture, student teacher from Madison College, finds out what teaching is really like as she conducts Mr. Floyd Binns’ civics class. Miss Barbara Haney, right picture, also a student teacher from Madison College, pre- pares her world history class for the next day. Mr. Edward Weld, found in the agricul- tural building throughout the school day, teaches industrial arts and mechanical draw- ing. During activity periods, he attends to study hall in the cafeteria for all students who do not have a club meeting while their home- room teachers do. In the community, Mr. Weld is a member of the Jaycees. Office Workers — Seated: Charlotte Elliott, Donna Curtis, Shirley Kuhls. Standing: Audrey Mills, Barbara Spicer, Brenda Pote, Rosa Brown. Barbara Wolfrey, Mary Ellington, Robert Jones, Margaret Clatterbuck, Sheila Gulas, Alice Rector. Cafeteria Workers — Mrs. Hugh Foster, Mrs. Gabriel Hoffman, Mrs. Mac McAllister, Mrs. Gene lager. Bus Drivers — Front row: William Walker, Ralph Wilson, Mrs. Humphries Estes, Mrs. Charlton Heflin, Mrs. Gene lager, William Morris. Second row Kenneth Smith, James Greer, James Minnis, Mr. John Tharpe, Mrs. William Singleton, Mr. Kenneth Brown. Third row: Wallace Somerville, Orville Kibler, Mr. Eugene Clatterbuck, David Coyner, Mr. Gregory Smith, Charles Harlow. Janitors — Chaplain Wright and Ollie Robinson.

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Team - Teaching in U. S. History Course Higher Learning — Nancy Saunders, Kathleen Haught, and Kay Gibbs, left picture, inspect the new Latin III books the school purchased. Johnny Summers and William Houck, right picture, help Jane Pote arrange pulleys in physics class. their earlier education and must be in the upper quartile of their seventh grade class. At the end of their junior year, these students may graduate if they have met the require- ments for this program. The United States history course is con- ducted under one of t he newest experiments in education — team teaching. There are two groups taking this course. One is composed of college preparatory students, while the other has general and business students. Mrs. Aubrey Ross lectures on Mondays and on Wednesdays to the business and general group and on Tuesdays and Thursdays to the college preparatory group. On the days that students don’t have lectures they report to a group discussion session led by Mrs. William Colvin or Mr. Edward Thurston. During the lecture period with Mrs. Ross, the students aren’t allowed to ask questions or talk, while in discussion sessions they are required to add their knowledge to the conversation. On Fridays, the entire U. S. history class reports to the lecture hall and views a film, pertaining to the lesson, or filmstrip on up-to-date news of the week. Latin III, taught by Miss Laura Thorn- hill, is a new course offered at CCHS. Through Lecture in the Cafeteria — College Preparatory United by Mrs. Aubrey Ross whose part in the team-teaching States History Students participate in the class conducted program employs the lecture method. 4 20