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

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Even the Faculty Is Evaluated Esther A. Burch; B.A . U of Washington; English; Debate and Forensics; 7 years Richard S. Carter; B S East Carolina U; Social Studies; Interact Club; 4 years Frances T. Casson; A B Madison College, M A. William and Mary; English; 20 years Wilma J. Chambliss; B S M A. Hamp Inst.; Science; 10 years Bobby J. Cropper; B A Nor- folk State, M A Hamp Inst ; Social Studies; Black Humanities; 5 years Marva J. Cummings; B A Xavier University, Foreign Language; French Club; 4 years Walter E. Davenport; B S Va State; Ind Arts; 27 years Geneva M. Davis; B A U of Nebraska Wm and Mary, Math; 27 years Theodore B. DeGroat; B B Hamp Inst ; B S Va State; Business; 22 years Carole B. DeRuiter; B A Radford; Foreign Language; 5 years Minerva B. Douglas; B S M A Hamp. Inst ; Math; 1 year Patricia A. Edison; B S Madison College; Social Studies; Debate; 8 years faculty twenty-three

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Judith S. Anderson; BA M A VPI English, Scepter; 2 years Mayme E. BaCote; A B Va Union U M A Hamp Inst M A Dartmouth College; Social Studies AFS sponsor. 1 O years Margaret I. Baker; B S Hamp Inst; Guidance; 12 years Henry P. Barney; B S Old Dominion University, Social Studies; sponsor, Sop Class, 2 years Pamela E. Behrens; B A Old Dominion University. Foreign Language; 2 years Margareta G. Blanchard; A B in Ed U of Mo Foreign Language; German Club; 3 years Frederick D. Boyd; B S Va State College, Instrumental Music; String Concert Orchestra; 5 years Joseph A. Buggs; B S EliEabeth City State U; PE; 1 1 years Even teachers were evaluated. They spent long hours in departmental and committee meetings; instead of the usual three, teachers ' meetings were increased to more than half a dozen by the end of the first semester. They not only evaluated themselves as a group, but each teacher also analyzed himself. Completing twenty-page booklets, they answered countless questions about their purposes and goals in teaching and the results they expected from their efforts. For two thirds of the school year, teachers sweated over these, often nit-picking” questionnaires. And then, in a blitz of strangers, visits, questions and other related non- sense, a group of nearly forty evaluators from near and far in- vaded the quiet halls of Menchville, leaving as quickly as they had come. When the dust settled, all of the questionnaires, so diligently prepared during the long months of fall and winter, were gone, and in their short, one-week stay, this visiting team had evaluated MHS and deemed it worthy of the adjective ACCREDITED. Was it worth the effort and trouble to have this word at- tached to the name of the school. One MHS teacher replied, ' Tis but foolery. Another compared the process to a government feasability study costing much money and producing no results. Yet another concluded that the evaluation contained too many variables and was therefore too superficial. The feelings, pro and con, perhaps may justly be summed up in this teacher ' s reaction. I have ambivalent feelings about self-evaluation. Generally, however, my feelings are negative. It seems to be a case of reality versus ideals. As it is, most of our work will probably be shelved somewhere in Rich- mond and forgotten. twenty-two faculty

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Mrs. Hannum does her best to serve two balls at one time Leading class dis- cussions are all a part of the days ac- tivities for Mrs Gravely. ssST: rrVi Alice Fasce; B A of Universi- ty of Southwestern La ; Art; Art Club, 6 years Julie Ferrell; B.S. Radford College; English; Courier Staff, 1 year Jacqueline Fidler; BA Wilson College for Women M S University of Virginia; Biology; AFS; 1 semester Judith Gallimore; B S. Hampton Institute; Business; Keyettes VOT; 3 years James Galloway, Jr.; B A Hampden-Sydney, English: SCA Crown; 10 years Lenora Gant; B S Florida A M University: Business Educa- tion; 3 years Sharon George; B A Longwood College; English; 2 years Nancy Gloss; B.S Radford College M A VPI State University; English; 6 years Abbie Grant; M A B.S Hampton Institute. Business. 2 years Patricia Gravely; B A Westhampton, English; Drill Team; 4 years twenty-four faculty fHkm