New Bern High School - Bruin Yearbook (New Bern, NC)

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f eelafg info fde page of foclay in-iv: fre? The ever-absorbing mystery of the work- ing of their own minds kept the psychology class at work while the unquestionable impor- tance of learning how the other half of the world lives was foremost in the consideration of the world history classes where they re- viewed the strange, combat-flavored history of foreign countries. After all, the students told themselves, the right of citizenship can assume no real significance to those ignorant of history, nor can we recognize our place and responsibility among the nations of the world. In the field of social studies a New Bern boy or girl may choose from the following courses: world history, U. S. history frequired, of coursel, civics, problems of democracy, sociology, economics and psychology, each course carrying a credit of one unit. - 'en x 1 Top: Using working models, diagrams. and pictures, Billy jarrel and john Heath discussed the history of man's weapons. Center: Jean Earl XVorthington, Janeth Hill, jimmy Ross and Charles Carraway plotted the course of western develop- ment. Bottom: Tracing the boundaries im- posed by the Monroe Doctrine: Gwen Hargett, Eloise Nelson, Harry Bowen, and Gary Brooks. 15

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SA., F if lp? 4662 In the picture at the top of this page are shown members of the class in United States history as they gathered in anticipation of a film on the life of Benjamin Franklin. just below is de- picted a regular meeting of the psycho- logy class. Janice Messer and Sarah Hansen directed the attention of the class to the fact that the brain is more than the seat of the intellect. At right is shown just one means Qdebateb by which the Problems of Democracy group solved the nation's problems. Just wait, they said, till we get hold of the govern- ment. 12 1 ,-. We, the students . .in order to assure per- petual classroom tranquility, promote the general knowledge, and maintain respectable grades for ourselves and our classmates, did therefore submit, though often reluctantly, to the sometimes arduous task of acquainting ourselves with the achievements of the world. Everything from the policies of the fabulous Nero to the height of the Paraima Falls was covered by the courses offered in the social studies field. In fact, few events of significance slipped by unnoticed, as affairs of the world, both past and present, were thoroughly ex- amined and expounded. Pages packed with earthy matters in- trigued the inhabitants of the physical geogra- phy class, while other inquiring minds delved deep into intranational and international strug- gles from earliest time to the more recent cold war with Russia. ie of fda laaaf Cub

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MSA? WOPJ 5461! Ina 0 cmsnuw glgllf 4 7' ' , ' . ::,z:i!5'-as AJ., 7 f-- , - ' . Q., . Stop giggling, girls! A business letter is a serious matter! Sonia Godwin and Judy Coburn dictate to Alice Dunn-all are members of the class in business English. Who me? just drawing a picture of a sentence! Lindy Dail is the artistg her critic-Lindsey Stokes. you fLinA anal fAe fAougAf The English language is a beautiful instru- ment of communication, and as such should be used with pleasure and cherished with pride. Such is the philosophy of the New Bern High School English Department. The teaching program, designed and executed with the hope of inducing students to subscribe to this philosophy, divides itself naturally into four fields-grammar, composition, vocabulary, and literature-each year's work being built upon a foundation from the preceding year. Thus, in the beginning, just as a doctor to understand the human body must in the course of his study dissect one, so do we English students take apart certain sentences and pile the words neatly aside to be studied in detail. It is in this process of dissecting a sentence that we learn parts of speech and syntax, becoming familiar with terms ranging from subject and predicate in the ninth grade to objective complement and retained objectsv in the twelfth grade-not to mention the unmentionable complement-of-a- linking-infinitive-having-a-subject. In the work of assembling sentences-com- position-we not only learn to think straight and to express ourselves logically and effectively, but we also learn the traffic signals of writing. Traf- fic signals? Certainly, a period says stop. An apostrophe signals a short cutg parentheses indi- cate a detour, and on through the punctuation symbols. Ill THF. 5- 6 an The colonial period of American literature lends itself to interesting bulletin boards for this group of juniors.