Groveton High School - Tigerama Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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. . . while Social Studies Encourages Citizenship. What happened at Waterloo? Where is Timbuctu? What is Congress doing today? Since Groveton is located in the middle of history, both fnade and in the making, 840 students are taking advantage ' of a better-than-average opportunity of training in social studies. Every graduate of Groveton is required to complete three social studies programs—one each of United States and Virginia History and Government and another of either civics, World Geography, or World History. In-the-classroom projects are boosted by means of a movie projector, film-strip projector, maps, globes, charts, bulletin boards, and, new this year, an opaque projector. Field trips were also taken. Forty members of the American History classes traveled to Williamsburg for a view of that city and reconstructed Jamestown. Another day was spent by representatives of the government classes in visiting Congress in Washington. Carol Twig, Robert O’Mara, and Emily Leonard read current events for their Social Studies classes. wewsweeies . WMOt-fHI-MOVttl i.«- JIM MU 1 1 ' .!! THE 86th CONGRESS Mtn ukjkti « m awn Minnie Lou Davis, Chuck Mullaly, and Margaret Leahy lead their U. S. History class in a group discussion concerning the War Between the States. Bob Nichols points out his home state on an election map of the 86th Congress. Shelly Smith and Patti Moore remember the days of Rome’s glory in their World History class. MtTt STKXCTH Of mPStSDrtUHb Page Eleven

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English Aids Development in Self Expression . . . The Shakespearian Theatre seems to interest Bill Pickering and A1 Pasquali as they examine a Senior bulletin board. Amy Degan calls out the spelling words and Susan Bradley and Jan Brown concentrate on getting them right. Mrs. Dolozik demonstrates the power of expression to her Dramatics class. Ever since one general said to the other, “Do you say the enemy is coming or the enemy are coming?”, stu¬ dents have been studying English. Every member of Grove- ton’s student body is required to take English each year. Beginning with English I and continuing through Eng¬ lish IV, Grovetonites explore English grammar, practice creative writing, read the works of literary masters from all over the world, and gain a good speaking vocabulary in their home language. Perhaps the theaters of the world will be recruiting their players from members of our dramatic and public speaking classes of our English Department. Students in the dramatic groups learn the ropes of the theatrical world; the public speaking classes discuss the world situation and often try to solve it—in flag-waving speeches of course. Pat Taylor diagrams a difficult sentence. Page Ten

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Students Study Facts and Figures . . . It takes both Bob McPherson and Becky Turner to put this Geometric figure on the board. Ray Nigh solves his math problems with the use of a slide rule. ack Page and Lori Jones look into the future at possible careers in the field of Mathematics. X = a broadening field of concentration and Y = 1263 Groveton students. X -f- Y = Groveton’s Math Department. Math is studied in its various forms all four years of high school beginning with the simplest eighth grade arithmetic, all the way up to the most complicated analysis problems. This year the Math Department was the proud possessor of two hundred and fifty-two eager students studying Eighth Grade Math, one hundred and thirty-seven busy freshmen taking Math I and three hundred and ninety covering Alge¬ bra I, forty-four bright sophomores taking Math II, two hundred and thirty-one studying Algebra II, sixty-two students pouring over Business Math, one hundred and eight work¬ ing hard on Plane Geometry and also seventy- nine brave seniors concentrating on Solid Geometry, Trigonometry, and Advanced Al¬ gebra. Math students were inspired by the many interesting speakers who gave talks during Career Week. Toward the close of the first semester, a physicist, Mr. Murray treated Mrs. Stine’s trig students to a concise ex¬ planation of the slide rule. This problem in Advanced Algebra seems to puzzle even Tom Davies and Bruce Bensettler. Page Twelve