Durham High School - Messenger Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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The F acult There are forty-five members of the Durham High School faculty, under whose direction and guidance eleven hundred pupils have studied this year. The administrative unit consists of a principal, two deans and thirteen heads of the various departments: English, History and Social Science, Mathematics, Languages, Commerce, Science, Home Economics, Physical Education, Music, Art, lndustrial Arts, Library Science and Cooperative Vllork. In addition to teaching schedules, averaging thirty periods a week, Durham High School teachers are advisers of numerous extracurricular activities that are scheduled to meet periodically: some, once a week, others, twice a month. They are also enthusiastic participants in the class picnics and socials that occur on the schedule of the year's calendar. The teachers are also affiliated with such organizations of professional interest as the Parent-Teacher Association, Durham Teachers Association, Class Room Teachers Association, North Carolina Education Association, National Education Association, and The National Council of Teachers of English. On April 22-24. Durham teachers were hosts of the State Teach- ers Convention. Members of D. H. S. faculty took active parts cn pro- grams and in helping in the presentation of the Centennial Pageant held at Duke University Stadium, Friday evening, April 23. ln community activities many teachers are found singing in church ch girs, teaching Sunday School classes, actively engaged in club work, rec- reation projects, and in every constructive community enterprise. During the year three new teachers, Miss Lucile VVelborn, Mr. G. Wlayne Scott and Mr. C. K. Baucom, were employed to H11 vacancies that resulted from the resignations of lNflrs. C. Holloway and Mr. A. K. Don- nelly of the Commercial Department, and Mrs. Eleanor Adams of the French Department. Mr. B. L. deBruyne, head of the Mathematics Department, was absent the second semester cn account of a long serious illness. ln February, Mr. L. A. Bruton was appointed to fill this temporary vacancy. Now that the school year is over these faithful men and women of the D. H. S. faculty will scatter in all directions-some will travel abroad even-to study, rest, or work during the summer. more 1 9