Murphy High School - Mohian Yearbook (Mobile, AL)

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I he I hree R’± In the little red school house, where one teacher did all the work, pioneer children learned their readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic. Today, modern students are still sent to school to learn these same fundamentals—readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic—with numerous variations, of course. Instead of one teacher, however, Murphy employs a faculty numbering 103. Pictured on these pages are classes typical of the fundamentals, with their varia- tions. An English student, Jackie Botta, struggles manfully with a difficult grammar lesson of nominative absolutes. In Mr. Vaughan's trigonometry class, Lida Swafford solves isosceles triangles, using logarithms. In Miss Hope's world literature class, a popu- lar new course offered for the first time this year, Margie Swift and Mac McLeod locate Spain, the land of Calderon and Cervantes. Unification of England is the sub- ject pursued in maps and reference books by world history students Jimmie Pierce, Frances Davis, and Carolyn Holland. Ed Crenshaw studies in physics the refraction of light passing through a lens. Jack Gentry scrutinizes his biology drawing—a cross section of a leaf. In glee club, a second-year French student, Joyce Bean, teaches the French words to La Seguidilla from the opera, Carmen . During the year, the glee club also learned a Latin hymn.

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And I ; x, y, A Reading 'ritin', and 'rithmetic are undeniably the fundamentals of learning, but at Murphy, many other courses are offered. Fine arts courses in instrumental and vocal music and art; commercial courses, like typing and bookkeeping; vocational courses, including drafting, radio, and small engines; and vocational courses in diversified occupations—these are just a few. In the Commercial department, Carolyn Freeman displays her skill in reaching the mark of 100 wpm on a one-minute write. Against a background of azaleas Carolyn Merrill, Barbara Willard, Odessa Aldridge, and Ed Cox make outdoor sketches of Murphy buildings in water color and charcoal. Diversified Occupations workers, Frances Beard and Mary Berg, entertain their bosses at the Azalea Banquet held in a local hotel. As part of the home economics course, Kay Wall, Janet Walley, and Joy Wade gain homemaking experience by setting a table, using a mixer, and baking a cake. A course offered for the first time this year is small engines, where Tommy Mitchell and George Weiss tinker with engines and make the wheels go 'round. Eugene Broadus and Floyd Wilson hover over the drafting board. In the crafts class, Roy Bixler tools leather, while Douglas Peavy studies a catalog, from which he will order his own materials.