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

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Art Service Committee Makes Posters The latest addition to the art department was the art service committee. Seventeen members, headed by Mrs. Richard Jones, sponsor, and Ruth Blanks, chairman, provided any needed posters for school clubs or town organizations. The group charged at least 25 cents, in addition to the materials used, for each work. Proceeds accrued went into the fund to finance the purchase of a reproduction of a masterpiece for the school. To aid homeroom teachers art students were assigned specific bulletin boards. As a year-round project the pupils maintained attractive, tasteful displays. Classes prepared and devised original creations in glass-work, mosaics, ceramics, potato prints, metal enamel- ing, tempra, oil, water colors, pastel chalk, and charcoal. Band classes, in addition to learning more about the various instruments, studied the life and style of Ferde Grofe, composer of the Mississippi Suite. Student musicians were responsible for the definitions of terms and for learning the keys and key signatures. During the spring each class member took his turn directing the band unit in music from Mississippi Suite Overture — Richard Forbes on bass clarinet practices the opening bars of new music in class. popular Broadway plays. Students had to identify the various times, rhythms, and types of music. Amateur Artists — Josephine Jeffries applies finishing touches on an original art class mosaic as Dewey Duncan surveys his oriental glass mobile to be shown in P-TA Arts and Crafts display, April 9. 21

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Travels of Aeneas — Virgil students, Collier Cropp and while John Davies and Phyllis Cothran trace the wander- joy White, right, play the new album of The Aeneid, ings on a classical map of Mediterranean area. Language Pupils Use Vocalette, Records The language department with aid from the National Defense Education Act acquired new educational equipment. The $1,300 vocalette for Spanish classes consisted of a teacher’s Spanish III — Robert Tipton, adjusting his headset, Mary Robson, and Sarah Witten await the flick of switch on vocalette control panel at the start of another oral exercise. master panel and twelve individual headsets, each with its own microphone, volume control, and built-in amplifier. Each pupil could hear and correct his own answers to tape drills as he spoke. With the switches on the control panel the teacher could tune in any student during an exercise. Classical students used records narrating the campaigns of Caesar and travels of Aeneas in English and in Latin to supplement their studies. Housed in new quarters, the Spanish sector added an advanced third-year class. Concen- trating on conversation and comprehension, the course included vocalette tape work, grammar instruction, aural understanding, and translation of Spanish stories from Reader ' s Digest and other magazines. The new class’s classical counterpart, Latin IV (poetry), included detailed study of myth- ology and the important figures of the Augustan Age. Intensive examination of construction, scansion, and vocabulary com- plemented the translation of The Aeneid. Each member of the class had to develop a term paper concerning some facet of the epic; studies of the travels, religious faith, animals, plants, and place names composed the list of projects. 20

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“I Object!” — Jerry Burton, defense attorney, rises to Stanley listen to the business law class rendition of the argue a point with district attorney, Ranee Spellman, ahl vs. Strous case during study of principals and agents. standing. Judge Michael Jenkins and witness Joseph Diamond Jubilee Revises Gregg Method With their largest enrollment in several years, shorthand classes adopted the Diamond F-F-F-SPACE — Second-year typists improve technique and speed by following directions flashed on front screen by new Skill-Builder, a controlled reading devise. Jubilee method, a revision of the standard Gregg. Eliminating many of the more con- fusing points of theory, Jubilee enabled stu- dents to master the fundamentals and to concentrate on dictation speed in a shorter period. Jubilee Discussion ' — Natasha Rixey and Janet Miller observe Faye Burke’s explanation of the changes in Gregg shorthand’s fundamental characters.