JEB Stuart High School - Sabre Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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FACULTY □ 22 JohruEjyjJi Spaffoh IIj Spanish Cl Mrs. Antieau conjugates, Myra Bradley French I. II Ona Mae Antieau English I; Latin I, II Latin Club Language Department Head: Mr. Lynn Catherine Condit French I, III: French Club, French National Honor Society Edith Henry Spanish I, II: Spanish Honor Society Mary Barrett Latin II. III. IV: Latin Club. Junior Class FOREIGN LANGUAGES Strange new sounds issued forth from the language department this year as the Russians invaded J.E.B. Stuart in the form of ALM Russian I. Teaching this audio-lingual delight is the effervescent Mr. Lynn, who returned to his post as head of the language department. Bolstered by the return of that Francophile, Mrs. Vivien Sulpice, this department continued to convert typical American teenagers into accomplished linguists. The ALM series is now well established at our school and employed in all of our foreign dialects except Latin. Early criticisms of this method of teaching were that it was tiresome and boring, but Stuart’s students have patterned their brain waves to respond to the silent whirr of a tape recorder. Comments one ALM student, “The course is really very interesting. Nothing is repetitious . . . nothing is repetitious . . . nothing is repetitious . . Francis Lynn French II; Russian I: National Honor Society, Russian Club Margarita Newman Spanish I, II: Spanish Club Vivien Sulpice French II. Ill Anne Sween German I, II, III. IV’: German Club James Ward French II, IV, V: French National Honor Society Shirley Wilson English II; Spanish II: Tri Hi Y

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21 □ ENGLISH aisey Matney English II Julia Tiede English I Rusty Nalls English II, IV Betty Toone Creative Writing; English III Marian Russell English III, IV Marguerite Whitfield English II, III By memorizing Shakespeare, analyzing T. S. Eliot, and interpreting Emerson, the English students have had a new phase of our language opened to them. They have matured not only through literature but also through a better understanding of grammar and word usage. Yvonne Arnold English III, IV Ronald G. Borror Reading james i ,aoriei English III, IV: SABRE, Tennis Helen Garrison English I, II: Junior National Honor Society Mayme Holt English II, IV Betty Keenan English I, III Susan Kristal English I: Forensics Society Gerri Lenvin English IV Harriet Mask English II, IV: Journalism: Balladiers, Quill and Scroll Honor Society, RAIDER’S DIGEST Miss Toone confides in Mrs. Lenvin and Mr. Gabriel. This year, in addition to the regular English classes, there were four levels of advanced classes, English V, and a course in creative writing. Of course these accelerated classes demanded more time from the students but the satisfaction of accomplishment and learning made the course worth the extra effort. Journalism, too, was included in the schedule, acquainting the students with the complexities involved in newspapers. American Civilization, a combination of U.S. History and English III, gave new light to the English department. The combination of these new courses and the addition of Mrs. Holt, Mrs. Tiede, and Miss Kristal provided an interesting and successful year for the English Department. The Open Window:” Miss Arnold’s English Class. FACULTY

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23 □ mathematics Buzz. Swap! Buzz. Swap! With a triumphant smile the executioner adds another victim to the pile of broken bodies and chalks up another minute of released class time. Capt. Rice, leader of the most vicious fly exterminating group in America, gives his Advanced Calculus students another lesson in applied mathematics—counting the number of dead flies, multiplying that number by one minute, and subtracting this from the length of the period. However, this teaching mechanism is not part of the usual “new math” program, which has offered teachers a new method of teaching math. As the SMSG (Student Mathematics Study Group) courses entered their third year at Stuart, the strangeness of this new approach began to wear off. Students no longer blindly memorized formulas and theorems for they began to understand the reasons behind the processes they employed. Students also realized that these courses stressed the information which will be most vital in college mathematics. Now kiddies. Maury Cralle Algebra I: Freshman Class. Ride Club Robert E. Davis Algebra II; Functions Clinton DeVier General Math: Football, Photo Club Janice Garrison Algebra I. II: National Honor Society Algebra I Louise Matney General Math: Hi-Pi Math Club Herbert P. Rice Analysis; Calculus; Functions: Key Club Jean L’phoff Algebra I, II: Pep Club Kenneth Whoolery Functions; General Math Consumer Math: Geometry Elizabeth Harvey Algebra I; Geometry Florence Holdt Algebra I; Geometry Mr. Strutton mathematically inducts. Captain Rice (peasant laborer). FACULTY