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

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World Geography Added To Curriculum Christmas Fashions by Future Homemakers — Wearing outfits made in home ec class, Anne Hill, Sheila Gulas, Geralding Jenkins, Barbara Spicer, and Claudette Arnold, top picture, decorate the Christmas tree for a party given for pre-schoolers in the home ec living room. Bottom pic- ture, Daniel Kenyon listens to explanation of longitude and latitude by Mr. Joseph Hockman, instructor in world geography, offered for the first time this year. department sponsors a Physical Education Show in the spring. h irst year Spanish students listen to tapes, recorded by native speakers, to drill grammar and expressions, while second year students concentrate on the comprehension of entire Chaucer Comes to Life — Kay Gibbs and Shirley Kuhls, top picture, portray the Xun and the Wife of Bath, char- acters in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, for Chaucer Day n senior English. At a local business Industrial Cooperative Training student Randolph Kinsey, bottom picture, waits on Mr. Shirley Broyles, ICT co-ordinator. which to fire ceramics. An old refrigerator serves as a damp clay bin in the department’s work room. Mrs. Charles Wayland, instructor in Girls’ Physical Education, introduced hockey this year. Both boys’ and girls’ classes participate in volleyball, basketball, tumbling, and danc- ing in season. Each year the physical education 22

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Latin IV Alternates With Latin From Cowhide to Belts and Bags — In industrial arts class Carter Saunders and Eugene Leake sew tooled leather coin holders, as Lester Shaw tools designs on leather which will be made into a belt. have classes in the band room because of lack of space elsewhere. Equipment in the science laboratory ac- commodates biology, chemistry, and physics classes for experiments. All science students enter a project, preferably original, in the annual Science Fair. The art department acquired a new kiln in A Hill of Beans — Samuel Compton, first place winner, shows his 1961 science fair project, the effects of radiation on beans, left picture, to Bobby Abernethy and David Gan- skopp. Patricia Wall and Arline Estes, right picture, use photo-copying machine in the business room during voca- tional office training. 21

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Guidance Committee Schedules Classes B. C. Best Seller — Carol Cobert, top picture, listens to “author” Willard “Vergil” Webb read his Aeneid. Mar- garet Ostrand, Barbara Jenkins, and John Durant, bottom picture, study the internal organs of clams through dis- section in biology class. selections in Spanish. The audio program for Spanish II consists of fifty-two tapes. Business students used a photocopy machine in office practice. Loaned to the department during the year was a dictaphone for combined dictation and transcription and earphones with which seven or eight students can take dictation at the same time. The guidance department comes into con- tact with each student at least once through the scheduling of next year’s classes and many more times for interviews and test interpreta- tions. College catalogs and information on occupations and careers are in the guidance V, office. A guidance committee handles College Boards and transcripts for college. Planning Ahead — M rs. John Kelley, top picture, schedules next year’s classes for Patricia Clatterbuck during her study hall. Randolph Kite and Emily Smith, bottom picture, select books from the fiction section for their monthly book reports. 23