George Washington High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Danville, VA)

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Inquisitive Students Find Stimulating Challenges Channel GWHS previews the science scene of 1968-69. Looking to increased college requirements, the GWHS Science department augmented the program. Test tubes, microscopes, and slide rules are a few of the items which the science department utilized. This year the Quantitative Physical Science program for the ninth grade level was continued. Despite the closing of the contract with Duke University which supplemented the course of QPS, the GW science department took over the entire program with good results. Progressing to the next level, biology was offered in two levels. Chemistry 5 and 6 functioned as regular Chemistry classes. Two Chem Study classes received a comprehensive study of chemistry ' by means of intensive lab work and stu- dent research. After an experimental trial last year, Science 9 and 10 (or Research Lab) was continued with good results. By- limiting the classes to five or six people for each class, the students were provided with more individual instruction. Each student who was enrolled in Science 9 and 10 worked on a project for the duration of the year. The department throughout the year has given time and consideration to improving the science programs. Teachers planned more demonstrations and lab work to supplement the regular course of study offered. CONFIDENT THAT AN earth-shattering discovery is near, amateur chemists Jeff Tilghman and Anna Blair observe the cataclysmic ef- fects of high temperature on a secret monster-creating formula. Miss Betty Lou Jefferson Mrs. Joyce Gregg Lewis Mr. John H. Fesperman Mrs. Johnnie Fullerwinder Mr. Charles Stephenson Miss Faye L. Walker FIVE-MINUTE BREAKS between classes allow Mr. William Perger- son to catch his favorite program on channel GWHS! The cleverly inventive physics teacher shuns conventional television and gets his kicks from viewing an oscilloscope. 23

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Mr. Roger E. Bailey Mrs. Phyllis J. Brown DISSECTING A FISH adds to the list of ex- periences that GW ' s sophomore biologists enjoy. Ruth Petty seems fascinated with Mrs. Coral Hurt’s explanations, but Louise Young avoids get- ting “that horrible odor” all over her hands. LET ME SEE, now. The right wire’s connected to the left post; freshman scientists experiment with the flow of electrical power in the left wire’s connected to the right post.” Mr. Marshall Pender’s their study of matter and energy. 22

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Recordings, Parallel Reading in Paperback Bring Insight, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,” all English students will be reading those nine hundred volumes of parallel reading materials supplied by the English Depart- ment for the first time this year. This was effected through the cooperation of the textbook rental system. The gradual introduction of new textbooks was continued as juniors received new grammar books. Freshmen, sopho- mores, and seniors adopted new and better illustrated liter- ature books. Two television programs (“Poetry,” used primarily on the 10th grade level, and “Franklin to Frost”) supplemented the American Literature course of the 11th grade. Sounds of Poe, Thoreau, and Frost reverberated through the halls, thanks to the three additional record players and forty recordings, newly acquired! This equipment imple- mented the teaching of literature as well as speech. Plans are also under way to secure several overhead proj- ectors and a copying machine to make transparencies for these projectors. This will make it possible to reproduce for classroom use many types of visual material. In the making are plans for an honors course of the sem- inar type for accelerated students. The purpose will be to teach intelligent, mature students, capable of self-direction, how to read works of various literary giants. WARM SUNSHINE AND FRESH AIR diffuse through Mrs. Beverly Bedsole’s English 73 class, producing drowsiness in some and laughter in others. Enjoying the dark coolness of the shaded half of the class- room, Randy Richardson, Beverly Turner, and Laura Thompson let heads droop. On the sunny side, Kay Oliver and Joe Giles arise and shine to Mrs. Bedsole’s challenge to write poetry. Mrs. Caroline Doyle Miss Josephine Estes Miss Betty Lou Giles Miss Crystal Green Mrs. Carlene Jackson 24