George Washington High School - Compass Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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MRS. BLANCHE MEADOWS English. Junior Class Sponsor MR. JOHN MURDAUGH English, Senior Class Co-Sponsor. Dance Club Sponsor, Senior Play MISS MARITA SMITH English. Latin, Bible Club Sponsor, Spelling Club Sponsor, Faculty Council HMMM, I WONDER—thinks Mike Ross as he completes a complicated chemical experiment. MRS. MARY SNIDER English. Senior Class Co-Sponsor, Commencement Awards Comm., Ass’t. Director of A.E.A. Pageant MISS SYLVIA SOMERS English. Dance Club Sponsor, Reading Coach for Forensic Contest MISS UNIS WOODWARD English, Remembrance Comm. Chairman ENGLISH DEPARTMENT To develop facility in all media of communication was the defined purpose of the English Department’s curriculum. Mr. Deucalion Gregory supervised a staff of approximately fifteen English teachers, including one dramatics teacher and one journalism teacher. Students were encouraged to improve their reading habits and given opportunity to gain assurance before an audience and to enlarge their writing skills. The department, through the efforts of approximately one hundred students, sponsored the publication of the school newspaper, magazine and annual. The drama classes produced two three-act and several one-act plays. YOU SURPRISED ME —said Miss Snyder, glancing up from her papers. 13

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Reading and Witing MRS. ANITA ALLEN French. English MISS GERALDINE JOHNSON English. Speech. Dramatics. Thespians Sponsor, Dramatics Club MISS ELEANOR CURRIN English, Freshman Class Sponsor MISS HELEN JOHNSON English, Poetry Reading MR. DEUCALION GREGORY English, Head of English Department, Compass Sponsor, Senior Class Co-Sponsor, Chairman Assembly Comm., Guidance Advisory Council MRS. LUELLA KESSENER Journalism. English, Lillie HaUhel Sponsor. Sun eyor Sponsor, Quill Be Scroll Sponsor MISS EUNICE GUILL English. Junior Class Co-Sponsor MISS MARY McKinney English, Sophomore Class Sponsor A HARD-EARNED BREAK—as teachers lunch in their own SMILE. YOU'RE ON STAGE —says Terry Walz as he formally dining room. installs Mr. Gregory into the Thespian Honor Society. 12

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Check and recheck MRS. MRS. MRS. ELIZABETH KATHERINE ELIZABETH ALLPORT APPERSON GENUNG Mathematics Mathematics, Mathematics. Compsu Chairman Cap Business Staff and Gown Sponsor Comm. MRS. WAPELLA MISS HELEN MR. IRVING HOLCHINS 1DDINGS LINDSEY Mathematics Mathematics. Mathematics. Student Council Head of Sponsor. Math Dept., Principal s Comfissf Advisory Council, Business Sponsor Chairman Superintendent's Advisory Council CHINESE PUZZLE—Tom Morrison wonder what could have ftone wrong as Mr. Lindsey watches him. SAY AH-H —command Mrs. Carr, the clinic nurse, to Sandy Seward as Pat Hobbs checks her pulse. MISS THELMA MADDOX Mathematic . Assembly Comm. MRS. EVELYN MONROE Mathematics MRS. LILI.ION SANGF.R Mathematics. School Store MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT Mr. Irving Lindsey was supervisor of the Mathematics Department. He gave guidance and advice to those students who requested it of him. He was also in charge of setting up a standard method of teaching mathematics to the students. This standard method was followed by all the mathematics teachers at GW. The Math Department offered a variety of courses in mathematics. Included in these courses were: a year of general mathematics, a half year of business arithmetic, a half year of refresher math, two years of algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry and trigonometry. These courses helped to prepare students for college mathematics courses. However, only one year of math was required for graduation. 14