Lubbock High School - Westerner Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Miss Aline McCarty

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ndividual Work! Systematic Work! Strange orders for a time when emphasis is on group effort and social mixing. Yet the popular and successful teacher to Whom this Westerner is dedicated prescribes large doses of just such medicine to her classes. During her twenty-three years at Lubbock High School, she has held fast to these traditional instruc- tional canons, at the same time en- riching her stern yet amicable teach- ing techniques with advancements in educational methods. Working with an opaque pro- jector and using spheres, cones, and blocks to illustrate geometric prin- ciples, she illuminates the most com- plex problems in the minds of her students. Do it yourself, she says. You know as much as the person next to you. And this lady practices what she preaches. The shutters in the den of her home-assembled, fin- M W --.. -I-. ii rf wfcw f ,. -- is-Ween xx W, . me esysigxag X ,viififpt ii f fs- 21 1+ gi' ished, and mounted entirely by her- self-exemplify her own theme of individual endeavor. Ironically enough, although she holds both bachelor's and master's degrees in science, in thirty-three years she has taught nothing but mathematics. With our dedicatee there is more to being a good teacher than just pounding facts into heads. In writing references for former students, tele- phoning reluctant pupils urging them to continue school, or keeping an eye on graduates, she constantly demonstrates her deep and abiding interest in those she has had in class. Recognizing the fact that she epitomizes the best of old educa- tional ideals and Westerner tradi- tions, even as she implements recent teaching innovations and adjusts to changes in the school and its spirit, We respectfully dedicate the 1962 Westerner to Miss Aline McCarty. ll