Hueytown High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Hueytown, AL)

Page 9 text:

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.

Page 8 text:

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.

Page 10 text:

FOREWORD THE SPACE AGE—a new age—a beginning:—for many ideas—for many people— for many things. In the future perhaps many people will look back and say:— that was the year we shot a rocket to the moon — That was the year we put a man into outer space. For the students of Hueytown High School, 1958-59 will be the year we moved to the new campus — the year we began a new curriculum. In this yearbook the staff of the Retrospect hopes to leave a record of our age: a new curriculum on a new campus. A new campus type school, (Hueytown High School), built in units at a cost of $850,000, is the first of its kind in the Southeast and functions as one of the most recent educational innovations of the decade. The new school, located on a plot of land, 3 1.6 acres in size, serves the largest unincorporated community in Alabama. A census made in 1957 estimated the population of Hueytown at 12,000. The school has an enrollment of over I 100 students and is staffed by 44 faculty members.