Floyd County High School - Bison Yearbook (Floyd, VA)

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Foreign affairs attract language study Randy Hallman uses flash technique in testing students in Spanish vocabulary during a Spanish I class. Latin II students write letters to the Great Pumpkin and then post them on the bulletin board. Foreign language at Floyd County High School includes Latin I, Latin II, Spanish I and Spanish II. These are college preparatory sub- jects but are not required for graduation. Miss Catherine Dobyns teaches Latin and Mrs. Ruth Harman teaches Spanish. Journalism students prepare and edit the newspaper, THE COUNTY CRIER. Mrs. Ruth Hallman, sponsor of the newspaper, teaches journalism. Speech, an elective course, is taught by Miss Marie Boothe. Interpretation and poise are goals for speech scholars. Nancy Mitchell and Kay Simpson proofread the COUNTY CRIER, the school ' s newspaper. Members of speech class find that experience is the easiest way to learn the points of debating. 21

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Inspiration ... an English theme ingredient The English Department sponsored an artmobile from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for study and en- iovment hv cfiidpnts Jeanette Conner gains rhetoric ex- perience by giving her book report to an English III class. English courses foster the expression of man ' s thoughts. They prepare students for college with a varied background in the dif- ferent fields of English and help all students to derive pleasure from all phases of communication. Students are grouped in sections of A, B, or C, according to their ability. Five credits in English are required for graduation. Teachers in this department are Mrs. Dorothy Casteel, Mrs. Thelma Houchins, Mrs. Dorothy Vest, Mrs. Ruth Hallman, Mrs. Ruth Harman, Miss Beatrice Dickerson, Mrs. Roberta Hewett, and Mrs. Sue Lee Yeatts. Susan Moore acts as student teacher of her English IV-A class. 20

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Math meets some of modern life’s demands Algebra I students explain their homework problems on the board for the class. Cathy Falls explains a problem for a general math class. Eighth grade math, general math, trigonometry, Algebra I, Algebra II, plane geometry and solid geometry are the seven courses offered by the Math Department. Two credits of math are required for graduation. The teachers in the Math Department are Mr. Bob Statzer, Mrs. Virginia Altizer, Mrs. Alice Howard, Mr. William Davis, and Mrs. Lynda Leedy. I Si nil The general math class uses the black- board often in explaining problems. Roger Bower proves a problem by use of a geometrical figure. 22