Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

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CURRICULUM All tenth graders take psychology. This course helps them to solve their problems of career choosing, personality adjustments, how to study, how to get along with people, and how to become better citizens. William Hayes is explaining his career poster to the class. This year Hueytown High School's home economics department is one of the best equipped in the state. These girls, Mildred Killough, Mary Jane Parker, Twynette Hall Carol Teague, and Jeanette McDonald, are demonstrating the new sewing machines received. The department is divided into rooms such as, living room, dining room, kitchen, and laundry. All the duties necessary for good homemaking are taught here. Young men and women need special training for specialized jobs. Intensive instruction in drafting is provided for those who plan to enter college for engineering courses and for those who go into local industry for on the job training. Mr. Norton teaches this course in Ivy Hall. In the girls physical education classes, there are many varied activities such as calisthenics, tumbling, dancing, and basketball, which tend to give the participants an all-around personality as well as to keep them physically fit. Shown here is a group from Mrs. Gillespie's and Miss Wooten's physical education classes.

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CURRICULUM The future of this country will depend to a great extent upon the success or failure of American mathematicians. Since this is true our school offers classes in the essentials of moth, along with more advanced subjects such as solid geometry and trigonometry. Leon Shirley is explaining a geometrical figure to Miss Reese's group as William Johnson and Wayne Jones discuss a model. Hueytown High's well constructed college preparatory program includes two courses in the study of foreign language. Classic and romance languages ore offered to encourage interest in European culture as well as to give basic understanding of our own language. The study of language promotes the essential precepts of international understanding. Royce Bailey. Carol Ruth DeVore. Ann Stewart. Charlotte Austin, and Mark Argo are discussing some French proverbs written in Mrs. McKinney's class. One of the most important functions of Hueytown High School is to prepare students to take jobs in the business world immediately after graduation. Two year courses in shorthand, typing, and bookkeeping are offered to those who choose business education. These students may also take record keeping and business law which give them an excellent background for secretarial or managerial jobs. The girls shown are Joyce Thompson. May Sanders. Glenda Mason. Ruth Ann Kirkpatrick, Marilyn Pir-kins. Linda Summerville, Wanda Kendrix, Sandra Elrod, Jeanette Hendrix, and Gloria Adams. SCEWES OE Ff?RWC£

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CURRICULUM People are often like icebergs. Only ono-ninth of their personality shows above the surface. Speech explores and helps to bring out the other eight-ninths, which is often the most interesting and worthwhile part of a person's make-up. Ceil Rounsa-ville is pictured here giving one of the many public speeches required in Mrs. Jones' speech classes. to Pictures, easels, still life, flower arrangements. and industrious high school art students make Miss Gunnels' room a bee hive of activity every day. Art students hard at work here are Jane Miles. Joan Jordan. Anne Thompson. Sue Lenning, Barbora Russell, and Jimmy Leslie. Guidance is an important phase of our school program. It gives the students a person to confide in and through the many tests offered it shows them their best capabilities. The guidance counselor helps them to improve their grades and select their choice of a vocation as well as a college. These students pictured are being given one of the many guidance tests offered to help them select their vocation. r ■ i S r Physical education plays a major part in creating a well rounded personality. This year because of our new facilities we were able to expand and intensify our sports program. The boys perform daily workouts and enjoy participating in the various sports offered.