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

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Departments Initiate Group Instruction Gulliver’s Travels? — Marvin Capano applies finishing touches to his history project, Spirit of St. Louis, before its first flight. All 109 pupils of the second period study hall took the same three courses — Mr. Andrew Puckett’s Science 8; Miss Joan Mowry’s English 8; and Mr. Roland Clement’s U. S. and Virginia History 8 — the teachers were Famous Virginia Soldiers — Richard Forbes speaks to DAR Chapter on General Edward Stevens, one of the town’s Revolutionary War leaders. able to swap class periods and study hall. By this plan they could present film strips, lec- tures, or administer tests once, instead of three times. Student Lawmakers — Junior Town Council members, Sarah Witten, Walton Jeffress, Rita Haught, Randolph Young, Faye Gulas, Robert Armstrong, Pamela Foan, Collier Cropp, Jane Furgiuele, discuss nominees for chief of police during government class. 17

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Participants Receive Credit for Forensics Term Paper Research — Lana West helps George Colvin, right, collect information in library workroom while Mary Kinzer looks in Readers ' Guide for source material. Poetry Booklet — Judith Painter, Mary Robson, Elaine Haught, Susan Beard, and Katherine Topham, English 1 1 students, compile and illustrate an original poetry manu- script. Last year’s lack of interest in forensic participation prompted English classes to give credit to pupils competing in any of the four areas. Students received grades for their spelling, prose or poetry reading, or public speaking. Honoring the Bard of Avon’s 400th birthday, English 12 pupils celebrated Shakespeare Day April 23. Students selected and presented their own projects. Cheshire Cheese Clique — Members of Samuel Johnson’s literary group, Ann Reaugh, John Hill, William Bryant, Collier Cropp, Emily Button, discuss problems of the era in senior English coffee house. 16

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Class Assembles New Experiment Kits Silicon Slab for Solar Cell — Honors science students Ernest Logemann and Shirley Xorris, right, direct Robert Armstrong as he grinds a sliver of silicon. Three Bottles are Enough — Michael Viar and Waugh Crigler collect oxygen for experimentation purposes during chemistry lab. Supplementing the three weeks’ study of advanced physics were the new Bell Telephone experiment kits for honors science class. Sep- arated into three levels of difficulty, these projects explored fields of oscillator construc- tion, silicon solar cell development, and build- ing a synthetic speech apparatus. 18