Cumberland High School - Duke Yearbook (Cumberland, VA)

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Various Projects and Activities Make we gate eee haamws| ye mad Oe i cS ’ fn — Doing some last minute studying for the Latin tournament are Anne Ayers (SEATED), Janice Jones, Lee Garrett, and Rodney Wise. Caesar couldn't possibly have done that! With this statement Latin students flew to atlases to check Caesar's veracity. Campaigns came alive as students read for meaning as well as skill in using the language. Four students represented the two Latin classes in the state-wide Latin Tournament. Debating was a popular activity for eleventh and twelfth grade English stu- dents, and writing research papers gave them a preview of college work. In all English classes recordings were used to enhance the enjoyment of literature, and Skill in writing was stressed. As they tried to find space to shelve 200 new books, ten student librarians dreamed of the ample space which the new library will afford. In preparation for its removal to the new building, the marble slab on the bar'' was cleaned and polished. Carol Harlan admires sketches which Carolyn Single - tary made in the twelfth grade English class to illustrate characters from Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. SEATED at the library desk are student librarians William Garnett and Alice Putney. The other librarians are Claudia Seay, G eraldine Stimpson, Anne Ayers, Alma Bryant, Sylvia Asal, Aline Ownby, Sandy Judy, and Mary Ann Bryant. 10

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Cumberland Builds Through the CURRICULUM It is in the classroom that the stu- dent must be especially careful to lay a solid foundation in order that his academic structure will be strong and true. Here the habits of learning, thinking, and investigating are cemented; here the bits of accumulated knowledge become building blocks of future structures. To encourage the student to build well, a large library is being constructed, thus freeing space in the main building for an extra class- room. Another large classroom is be- ing provided in the gymnasium, a well equipped audio-visual center is being planned, and the lighting of all rooms will be improved. In such an environ- ment, each student will find a greater incentive to lay his academic foundation soundly. Large windows will fill the gaping spaces in this building which will house the library. Julie Midkiff and Geraldine Stimpson select books for parallel reading.

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Classwork More Meaningful for Students Nancy Agee, Nancy Simanske, Mary Frances Allen, and Michele Jones work on a model of the Parthenon for their world history class. In a scene from the one act play, ''The Perfect Gentle- man, G. A. Higgins watches Janice Jones, Pat Lane, Alice Putney, and Kris Frayser pick up spilled olives. Proper enunciation received major emphasis as the dramatics class perfected three one act plays: ''The Perfect Gentle- mane balcony scene, -and Rich Man- Poor Man. In the latter, dialects were spoken, and the play was such a success that it was presented before two civic groups. Mrs. Judy Whittermore, a student teacher from Longwood College, worked Elliott Irving shows interest in an issue of for eight weeks in the social science American Heritage which Mrs. Judy Whitter- classes. Current events were stressed in more, a student teacher from Longwood College, these classes, and special studies were PRS RAN Severe Ace MERRES ABSA g Ay, made of communism and of Virginia's history and government. Term papers were required of U.S. history students. In business education classes, students le arned to take dictation at the rate of 100 words a minute, to keep accurate records, and to type 65 words a minute. In their study of automation, they found data pro- cessing machines and punch cards in- teresting. Marie Barr attempts to balance a profit and loss statement in bookkeeping class. 11