Dublin High School - Maple Leaves Yearbook (Dublin, VA)

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Dublin Has Growing Pains Mr. and Mrs. John Campbell are surrounded by houses under construction in Fair Acres. Fair Acres adds two new houses per week. lew apartments rise in Dublin. Poff Construction, Inc. erects this sub-division in the outskirts of ublin. Manufacturers and businessmen are moving into Southwest Virginia. Both Pulaski and Radford will soon have complete new shopping cen- ters. Housing subdivisions in the Dublin school district rise in a mat- ter of weeks. In 1973 Dublin citizens re- elected Mayor Leo Jackson, and the Town Council hired another police officer. The Board of Super- visors and Town Council built Dublin ' s first tennis courts located on the old Elementary School property. Our area offers an expanding range of educational opportunities. In 1972-73, nearby Radford Col- lege, formerly an all-girls school, opened its doors to men and be- came a co-educational institution. Blacksburg ' s Virginia Tech incorpo- rated over 18,000 students in its centennial year. New River Com- munity College, located in Dublin, completed the construction of sev- eral new educational and recrea- tional facilities including six lighted tennis courts. The new Pulaski County High School is still in construction stages, and until it is completed, our over-population problem can only become more acute. Pu- laski County is swelling with people— it ' s no wonder Dublin High School has GROWING PAINS! Some of the New Housing Developments in the Dublin School District ORCHARD HILLS FAIR ACRES HUDSON TERRACE ROLLING HILLS VISTA SUBDIVISION CLOVD COURT HIGHLAND PARK WALNUT SUBDIVISION WOOD SUBDIVISION SKY VIEW SUBDIVISION

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The Hudson Terrace Subdivision is built around the New Dublin Elementary School. Highland Park is rising behind Route 11 outside of Dublin. Hudson Terrace adds many new families each month. 6

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Members of the Senior Chorus sing in spite of crowded conditions. In 1973, Dublin High School en- compassed fifty-five faculty mem- bers and over forty extra-curricular clubs, sports, and activities. The conception of a five-hour school- marm is gone— a teacher ' s work is never done. In addition to those late-night hours of grading papers and planning lessons, most D.H.S. teachers sponsored after school activities on their own time. Extra-curricular activities are a vi- tal part of the learning process, and an educator is called upon to be- come involved with many commu- nity as well as school projects. This year, plans for the new Pu- laski County High School and inter- mediate schools had to be com- pleted. Many teachers spent hours writing and rewriting course de- scriptions, listing skills to be taught, and finding materials relevant to new classes and subjects. To cope with this problem, English, Math, and Social Science Department heads utilized two planning peri- ods, occupying offices in the Guid- ance Annex. Our faculty, in coop- eration with Pulaski High, operated as one unit in order to offer the,, best possible opportunities to stu- dents who will attend the new schools. Our growing pains were most evident in the classroom— affecting both the teacher and student. Student teacher Miss Linda Houser explains factoring to her algebra class. 8 The Duke Band nears the school in the 1972 Homecoming parade.