Farmer High School - Far Echoes Yearbook (Asheboro, NC)

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LIBRARY The library is the information center of the school, providing materials needed to supplement textbooks and to supply recreational reading. The goals of the library areto help students use the resources of the library confidently and effectively, to give students a rich environment for learning, and to encourage a love of reading. THE BUSINESS EDUCATION DEPARTMENT Our Business Education Department is concerned with both the vocational and college-preparatory student. In Typewriting I our students learn the keyboard and mechanisms of the typewriter, and Typing II deals with more com- plex typing applications. General Business is a basic course designed to help students understand, as well as function in, our free enter- prise system. Business math strengthens the basic fundamentals of math and applies them to everyday business situations. Business communications stresses the need for more effective business correspondence. Shorthand I and Office Practice are primarily vocational. Shorthand I is concerned with learning the theory of shorthand outlines, acquiring the skill to lake rapid dictation, and transcribing accurately. Office Practice incorporates an entire office situation.

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BRICKLAYING Since this is our second year of masonry training, we feel far more qualified in meeting its requirements over our first year. We have discovered our bricklaying instructor, Mr. Hedrick, to be a highly skilled teacher. After several days of school, he had us working in our books and practicing the studied techniques. We, as his pupils, work well under his guidance. The community of Farmer is receiving our work as a beneficial part of our training. WE ARE ' ’ ‘ PHYSICAL EDUCATION Physical education is a phase of the'total education program, and as such should have the same goal that gives purpose to all other learning experiences--the well-rounded development of all students as individuals and as respon- sible citizens in our democratic society. Physical education should be thought of as a way of education . The se- lection and conduct of physical education activities are selected in full consideration to values in human growth, de- velopment, and behavior. i 1ft ■ ' i ' 3 r

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MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Our Mathematics Department offers a variety of math courses to take care of the needs of students taking the general course, as well as those students taking college-preparatory. The freshman, who are taking the general course and not preparing for college, are offered General Modern Mathematics - a review of all fundamental operations in arithmetic. In their sophomore year, they usually take Busi- ness Arithmetic. Students taking the college preparatory courses take algebra I their freshman year, followed by Geometry their sophomore year. Algebra II is offered the third year for students wishing to continue their math in preparation for college. GUIDANCE The guidance program provides counseling for pupils who have special problems which interfere with their success in school. The program also provides means by which all pupils may obtain help in planning the work which they will do or the higher education which they will seek. Our ultimate goal is to have each pupil choose for himself that which will utilize his interests and abilities to the fullest.