Menchville High School - Crown Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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Along with directing Student Activities at MHS, Mr. Thomas Marvin was also head of the Distributive Education Depart- ment. He explained that the only new course offered in the department during this school year was Fashion Merchan- dising with emphasis on the In- dividualized instruction on each student. Mr. Marvin attended V.P.I. where he received his B A. in D E and he has taught for eight years. He felt that MHS was the best school on the Peninsula during this school year and would rank it in the top ten in the state However. Mr. Mar- vin would like to see more par- ticipation in school activities and better attendance at sporting events, school plays, and the like. He praised MHS by saying, I think that the faculty and student body are working to make it the best all-around school there is. Mrs. Frances C. Nettles, a graduate of the College of William and Mary, where she received the B.A. degree, was Science Department Head, as well as Science Club Sponsor for the 1972-73 school year. Mrs. Nettles stated that students may hope to see some advanced science classes in the very near future. Mr. William Robinson, Chair- man, Industrial Arts Department. The women ' s athletic department is coming along slowly but surely, said Mrs. Mary Ann Rounds. Menchville ' s athletic department joined the Virginia High School League and has grown noticeably because of this association. Mrs. Rounds, department chairman and a graduate of Ithaca College with a B.S. degree and the College of William and Mary with a M.Ed., said that future plans include coed classes and a program for handicapped children within the athletic department. Mrs. Franklin Seney graduated from the University of Northern Iowa with a B.S. in English. She has been teaching for fifteen years and has been department chairman at MHS for three years. She said. The biggest change in our program this year comes through what we ' re doing for our students who have trouble in keeping up with the majority of others in communication skills, and com- munications skills are what English is all about. Mrs. Seney believes that English is com- munication and this involves the interrelationships of all parts of the school. We feel it ' s necessary for the English department to become involved in school life and set an example for others. We want the students to know that we care. Her teachers proved that they cared, spon- soring perhaps more clubs and organizations than those of any other department in the school. twenty department chairmen

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Horace Fauntleroy, head of the MHS Custodial staff, found this year that things were look- ing up at Menchville. He praised both his staff and the students. The staff, he said, was efficient and alert. He said that students were on the ball and courteous to him. Things,” he stated con- cerning beat up chairs and desks, are getting better year by year. Kids look like they ' d rather learn than play. As head of the Guidance Department, Mrs. Clara Hines ' duties this year were to organize the department, and to ad- ministrate, coordinate and supervise its activities. Mrs. Hines said that the biggest problem in counselling students is trying to help them to realize that they should not get out of a course that they need, just because they don ' t like the teacher. When asked if her responsibilities were challeng- ing, Mrs. Hines replied, yes, I find them very challenging, but I enjoy working with students. After attending North Carolina University and Hampton Institute, receiving the B.A. and M.A. respectively, she began teaching and has taught for eleven years. She expressed a desire to have a closer relationship with the students, saying, I think it would improve our working relationship with the students and I think this is our purpose for being counselors and as for being here:to do what we can to help the students. Mrs. Thelma Kiser, a graduate of Elizabeth Buxton School of Nursing and co-Sponsor of the Senior Class, has been working in the public schools for eight years. She came to Menchville from NNHS in 1970. Mrs. Kiser enjoys MHS very much and was greatly pleased with the student body; however, she resented the fact that many students tried to take advantage of her position. The students that misuse the clinic, Mrs. Kiser stated, are not only exploiting their own rights, but also the rights of those students around them. Outside of school, she is very ac- tive in her church as Superinten- dent and Youth Coordinator of the Sunday School. Mrs. Kiser also has four young men living at her house to whom she devotes the remainder of her time. Mr. David Lawrence, Chair- man, Foreign Language Depart- ment. Math courses were more popular this year at MHS. A great number of students were even taking the more advanced Math offerings. For the first time, Probability, Matrix and Elemen- tary Functions were offered, each as a one semester course. The highlight of the year was the Math contest with MHS proving itself to be a very mathematical- minded school. The man behind the department was Mr. Al Lebold, who had seven years of teaching experience. After receiving his B.S. degree from W M, Mr. Lebold continued on to get a M.Ed. from the same school. In his evaluation of Menchville, he stated, I think Menchville has a very good stu- dent body and I know that it has some very, very good math students. department chairmen nineteen

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Mr. Guy Smith, Director of Custodial Services. Mr. James Snow, as head of the Physical Education Department, felt that the facilities were outstanding here at MHS. He also felt that everyone seemed more at home this year than last year. Coach Snow received an A.B. degree from Elon College and has been teaching for twenty- one years. He was athletic direc- tor, head baseball coach and assistant football coach at MHS during the 72-73 school year. The Mighty Monarch Band, under the direction of Mr. David C. Solomon, gave three perfor- mances for outside organizations during the 1972- 73 school year. Among other ex- citing plans, the band was mak- ing money in an attempt to take a trip to take part in an Inter- national Music Festival in the Netherlands in June and July of 1973. Mr. Solomon received a B.M.E. degree from the Shenan- doah Conservatory of Music and the American University. He is head of the Instrumental Music Department at Menchville. ICT (Industrial Cooperative Training) was under the leadership of Mr. Charles Tuel, a graduate of West Virginia University, where he received his B.S. in Secondary Education. The ICT program provided several juniors and seniors with the opportunity to gain training and work experience and to gain entry level skills into occupations of health and personal service. Mr. Tuel felt that this was a better year for ICT at MHS because the students showed more interest in classes as well as in clubs. Mrs. Bernice West began her third year at MHS in September of 1972, previously having been at Newport News and Denbigh High Schools. After seventeen years of cafeteria managing, Mrs. West found that the most challenging part of her job was satisfying the students. According to Mrs. West, the cafeteria in the public schools are not profit making businesses; in fact, each lunch costs seven cents more than the students pay. In evaluating Menchville ' s cafeteria, Mrs. West felt that the student behavior was really very good. One thing students should do is to accept the responsibility of carrying up their own trays. She said that the purpose of the cafeteria was not to compete with McDonalds for lunch business but rather to provide a well-balanced, type A lunch for every student in the school. department chairmen twenty-one