Needham Broughton High School - Latipac Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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Left to right: Ronald Sanders, Mrs. Fonville. Reagan Fox and Mrs. Peacock. Student teacher and Mr. Blakeway. HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS With the exception of the arts department, each of the subject teachers had a chairman to direct the work of classes which they taught. There were seven of these teachers. In having these heads of depart- ments, an agreement was reached as to what was. to be required of the students. For instance there were fifty-nine English classes taught at Broughton. Twenty-two of these were Sopho- more Classes. All the English teachers met at Mrs. Peacock's request and decided on one number of paral- lel books to be required as a minimum, or the number of themes to be written or the selections in literature that were to be a must. Other phases of the work were considered accordingly. There were over twenty courses allied with English that set up standards to be followed. Mathematics embraced everything from general mathematics to solid geometry. These fifty classes included students who excelled in mathematics, and it also included those who were required to get that credit in order to graduate. Mr. Blakeway, the chair- man, had a knowledge of what had to be done to enable the students to meet the demands of mathematics in the scientific age of 1959-60. Many people outside of school complained that high school students did not know history. Perhaps there was some truth in their statement, but if some of those people had visited any of our thirty-three social science classes at NBHS, they would have been amazed. Mrs. Fonville had a hand in the work of every teacher of this group. The classes in European or American history were keys to the past and the present. The work in government, sociology, economics or current history touched on national state and local govern- ment. Khruschev might have been the center of at- tention one dayg it was the local United Fund Drive the next. Everybody stressed science in 1959-60. NBHS was no exception. Biology was required of every sopho- more. The majority of the juniors and seniors con- sidered chemistry a subject they must have. Then there were other sciences: physics and physiology. In all there were forty-two classes in science. Miss Mc- Dearman was the head of the department. In order that students might get in more science, mathematics,

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Mrs. Holyfield, Mr. Walker, Mr. King, Mr. Etheridge, and Mr. Gay. Cheerfulness and happiness prevailed in the classes of Mrs. Kahdy, Miss Freeman, Mrs. Tarlton. Determination was the watchword of Mrs. Stell, Miss Coffey, Mrs. Burton, Miss Satterfield, Mr. Watts, Miss Williams, Mrs. Weddington. Mr. B1akeway's Press on , Mrs. Pea- cock's Are these seniors? g and other expressions are quotes familiar to those who knew them. With all this, the good and the bad, the work and the fun, the group of men and women who ran the classroom had their part in another chapter, another year, in the history of NBHS. PHYSICAL EDUCATION. Left to right: Clyde Walker BA Physical Education, Clyde Etheridge, B.S., Math and Physical Education, Mrs. Dorothy G. Holyfield, B.S., Physical Education Herbert Brantley, B.A., M.A., Biology and Physical Education Mrs. William Smaltz, B.S., Physical Education COMMERCIAL. Left to right: Mrs. Jennie W. Sharp B A Short hand and Secretarial Practice, Mrs. Dixie C. Porter B A Typmg and Shorthand, Mrs. Frances H. Darden, B.S., M A Bookkeeping and Typing, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Weddington, B.S Typing Mrs Myrtle G. Campbell, B.S., Typing. 19

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or history, regular classes were offered during the summer session. Students were aware of the atomic age with its challenges and its problems. Latin, Spanish, French, and German were taught in thirty-two of the classes at NBHS. A foreign lan- guage seemed a necessity. Mrs. Ladu directed the work. For the first time, some sophomores took two languages: Latin and another. NBHS was working towards the goal of enabling students to take three. four or more years in one language while still in high school. lf a girl or boy wanted to obtain training which would enable her or him to get a job along with a diploma, she or he would register in the commercial department. The typewriters never received any rest. Then there was shorthand and bookkeeping. Mrs. Left to right: Mr. King, Emerson Atkin- son and Kay Talton. gf, -sg Mrs. Sharp and Virginia Going. Miss McDearman and Robert Hocutt Sharpe worked with teachers of these twenty-two classes. Students that wished to learn to type could take the course in the summertime. All the able bodied members of the student body were required to be in one of the fifty-eight physical education classes that meet twice a week. Carroll King was the director. For the first time the girls had a gym and the boys had a gym. Sports were stressed that might be played elsewhere-golf, tennis, softball, hockey. Of course, body mechanics was still a part of physical education department. There were fifty-eight classes not included in any of the seven departments. These were the twenty- three classes in industrial arts, eighteen classes in home economics, the nine classes in music, six classes in art, and the two classes in diversified occupations. Some of these classes were core, others interest. They helped to make a well-rounded curriculum. Mrs. Ladu and Susie Simmons.