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

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First Accelerated Students Graduate Quick Relief — Mary Willis finds rest on the bed in the office as Judy Barfield offers her an aspirin. Climaxing five years of study with honors courses in mathematics, science, and English, members of CCHS’s first accelerated class graduated with their classmates. By taking Algebra I, Science 9, and English 9 in the eighth grade they were able either to graduate Assistants to the Assistant — Office workers Wilson Stallings, Charles Abernethy, and Billy Barron take over the desk and duties of the assistant principal as they check absentee excuses. in four years or to pursue more advanced studies. Vital Equipment — Margie Price, assistant secretary, instructs office workers Mary Backe, Evelyn Jenkins, Katherine Cubbage, Joan Bennett and Patsy Delf in the operation of a duplicating machine. 15

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Bus Drivers Include 11 Adults, 9 Boys Bus Drivers — Front Rote: Roger Suder, Walton Jamison, Robert Hawkins, Thom Fitzhugh, John Stein, Richard Jasper, Kenneth Smith. Second row: Mrs. George Owens, Mrs. Humphries Estes, Mrs. Charlton Heflin, Airs. Gene lager, Mr. Kenneth Brown, Mr. Eugene Clatterbuck, Mr. Charles Harlow. Third row. Mr. Norman Wilbur, Mr. Curtis Weaver, Mrs. William Singleton, Mr. John Thorpe. Missing from picture: Powell O’Bannon, David Carter. Cafeteria Workers — Mrs. Gabriel Hoffman, Mrs. Mahlon McAllister, Mrs. Hugh Foster, and Mrs. Gene lager prepare lunch for hungry stu- dents. They also prepare the food for the Colonnade, Pepergram, and other banquets. Today’s menu is the “C”day — chili, cole slaw, cheese biscuits, cherry cobbler, and cow’s milk. Students, as well as adults drive school buses. They all must be good disciplinarians and qualified drivers. Student bus drivers are excused at 3:05 each afternoon to bring the buses to the front of the school. Two custodians clean all rooms and halls and empty the trash cans every afternoon. Both cheerfully repair any breakdowns in class- room or school equipment during the day. If one becomes disabled, students clean up their sixth period classrooms and empty trash cans. Custodians — Ollie Robinson and Chaplain Wright. 14

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New Course Combines Plane and Solid Construction — John Rothgeb instructs Peter Gyory and Leta Fitzhugh on the construction of a triangle in Math 8 class. Spheres and Circles — Contemporary geometry students Boyd Carpenter and Bernard Cook demonstrate to Joyce Brown the similarity between fundamental principles of circles and spheres. The standard year of plane geometry and single semester of solid geometry were com- bined into a one-year contemporary course for the first time. Slide Rule Confusion — Mary W illis, right, thinks she understands as she tries to explain to Judy Pugh and Henry Weaver how to calculate with the slide rule. 16