Fieldale High School - Fieldcrest Yearbook (Fieldale, VA)

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CHANGE IS MADE IN GRADUATICN REQUIREMENTS With Mrs. Eanes, Teresa Moore and Jerry Mabry learn more about the care and feeding of fish in science class. Requirements for those students gradu- ating in 1961 and 1962 are 18 credits. When these graduates were eighth graders, credit was not given for eighth grade courses. In 1958, a revision was made of the required credits for graduationg the major change In chemistry, Mrs. Taylor explains to Rebecca Prillaman and Terry Britton the combining capacity of chemicals. made was that credit would be given for eighth grade subjects and that students graduating in 1963 and after would be re- quiredto have 22 1X2 credits. This require- ment fulfills those of the State Department of Education and those of Henry County. Mrs. Taylor points out the parts ofthe human brain to Bobbie Martin and Reece Haynes during a biology lesson.

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SELECTED FEW MAY TAKE ADVANCED SUBJECTS A The principle of percentages is demonstrated by Shirley Bryant and Penny Whitlock as Mr. Smith looks on. A few students in the eighth grade are permitted with parental consent to take al- gebra 9 or math 9 instead of eighth grade arithmetic or take the first year of a foreign language rather than history 8. The selection of students who are per- mitted to take this advanced work is based Two intersecting planes are drawn by B. J. Carter in solid geometry. upon such factors as intelligence test scores, reading t e s t scores, achievement t e s t scores, and academic standing. The reason for allowing certain students to take advanced courses in the eighth grade is to make it possible for them to take certain advanced subjects in the twelfth grade. ' Mr. Smith explains how to plot a graph to Frankie Barker and Connie Shelton in algebra class.

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CLASS STATUS DEPENDS UPON CREDITS EARNED Jackie Palmer shows his architectural drawing MY- Merritt aids CCY Via iii the C0ml9iefi0ii Of hiS project to Mr. Merritt while Kenneth Whitlow watches. mechanical drawing Pfoject- Under the new requirement system, in Under the old system, for those stu- order to be classed as a Freshman, a stu- dents who were classed as eighth graders dent must have 3 1X2 creditsg as a Sopho- before 1958, it is necessary to have 3 1X2 mo re, 8g as a Junior, 12 U25 and as a credits to be classed as a Sophomoreg 8 as Senior, 16 1f2. a Juniorg and 12 as a Senior. As the sound of busy activity drifts over the shop, students work diligently to complete their tasks. 23