Fieldale High School - Fieldcrest Yearbook (Fieldale, VA)

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FACULTY MEETINGS ARE HELD TWICE A MONTH Faculty meetings are held in the library. Waiting for the meeting to begin are, reading from front to back, first row: Mr. Iler, Mr. Merritt, Mr. Cassady, Miss Elrod, Mrs. Frazier: second row: Miss Thomp- For a number of years, we knew Mr. Hubert Smith as Office Manager at Field- crest Mills. Now, as a member of our faculty, he teaches algebra I and II general mathematics, and sponsors a tenth grade homeroom. He received his A. B.Degree from Randolph Macon College and has pre- viously taught several years at the University of North Carolina. I Mr. Hubert Smith Agraduate of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia with aB.S. Degree, Miss Nan Thompson now teaches one class each of shorthandl and II, typing I and II, and bookkeeping. She is spon- sor of the FIELDCREST, co-sponsor of the Senior Class, and is on the Public Relations Committee of the Henry County Education Association. Miss Nan Thompson son, Mrs. Robertson, Miss Knight, Mr. Slaughter, Mr Zimmerman, Mr. Smith, third row: Mr. Pully, Mrs Mitchell, Mrs. Fuller, fourth row: Mrs. Rives, Mrs Poston, Mrs. Taylor. Mr. Ernest Bowman, a new teacher at F.H.S., re- ceived his B. S. Degree at Madison College. He teaches math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and sponsors a ninth grade homeroom. He has done extension work at Bridgewater C o lle g e , Columbia University, and Duke University. Mr. Ernest Bowman I5

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ACADEMIC PRGGRAM IS COLLEGE PREPARATORY Mildred Thawley, Jerry Purcell, Audrea Turner, and R. B. Hundley look on attentively as Mary Jane Pickup, Eddie Gibson, Violet Hubbard, David Ader- The Academic program includes those courses essential as preparation for pur- suing work in a college. College entrance requirements Vary at different institutions. Each student must determine as soon as possible what college he expects to attend so that his high school courses will meet these requirements. Required courses for the Academic program are: five units in English, two in hold, and Joretta Nester display their projects from Chaucer's England. lab science, two in mathematics, one in U. S. history, one in government, one in world history, andthree years of health and physi- cal education. If a student plans to go into engineering, one year of mechanical draw- ing is required. He must take five addition- al courses selected from math, science, and foreign languages. Then he must take four other electives which may be any of the courses offered in the curriculum. As a part of their study of Western literature, the junior English class enjoys singing Sweet Betsy from Pike.