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

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ama 5fre55e5 ,aeecA ana! Sociaf poise x ' I I L I . Q x ,,,.,W-ai Ag 1 The chair recognizes Mr. johnson in a little matter of speech class business. 16 WWW. WJ, .9 The lights dim! Sudden silence prevails! And the curtains roll noiselessly, smoothly back. A sigh whispers softly throughout the auditorium as people settle back to enjoy the play-product of much rehearsal on the part of the cast, of much work and ingenuity on the part of the lighting and stage crews, and of the effective harnessing of the school's most valuable resources-time and energy. Long cognizant of the fact that drama can be a unifying force in a troubled world, Miss Hilda Gordon, director, saw her course as the means of ,promoting artistic discrimination, of developing co- operation, imagination, and ingenuity through group activity. Each year this department offers drama I, drama II, and a course in speech, which emphasizes parliamentary procedure as well as forensic fundamentals. All courses are elective and carry a one- unit credit each. Billy Biddle was coached by Jean Hudson in Mr. Jack- son's lines for The Florin Shop while Betsy Ferebee and J. A. Ipock cut the window glass to fit. Y ,Af Sherry Ann Wooten, Bobby John- , 5 iw., V 15635191 son, and Miss Gordon gave the set .ph I , . -'1-'i for Dear Ruth a complete paint job. ,. L - if l K, A E If S 'M kg. 'V f F Y A bf, , f t f' f I .uafj 55

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77 5411! ma e you hee. Since words are the currency of thought, it is the con- viction of the English department that the more words we master the richer become our thought processes. Only those concepts belong to us for which we possess adequate vo- cabulary. Effort, then is constantly being made to help our boys and girls grow in word knowledge. Sometimes the method used is formal, sometimes it is a word game, but the result is always another deposit in the vocabulary fund. Perhaps one of the most valuable classes of the Eng- lish department is that of journalism. Here it is that the student gets the concentrated experience in writing that the crowded program of a regular class prohibits. This class, under the direction of Miss Lucie Hodges, publishes The Bear Cub, a monthly story of high school activities. Also under the auspices of the English department is The Bruin, New Bern High School's yearbook, a photographic record of school life, planned and published with the help and advice of Mrs. D. A. Roebuck. Approximately half of the English year is spent in the study of literature for the depart- ment staff feels that literature offers, in addition to a school of model composition, such greater values as: personality development, lasting plea- sure, intellectual challenge, a revelation of man's deepest humanity, and spiritual enrichment. ik Marshall Braddy makes a gallant start on his research paper by checking out a few research books. nf' 45. 'U' Writers' tools are words. Janice Messer and Nancy O'Neal are learning to respect them. Freshman English class use small dictionaries to look up big words. I I i 1 V I I 1 . 1 ai

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a nc! Soda! poise Scenes from Dear Ruth, a comedy of XVnrld ar , w osc p ser in motion by luuers wriuun to servicemen by a teen-age girl using her older sister's signature. i r .. 1 l lafim ,yi 1 I 1 .7 . YV? , s til , l r I j wa 6 Mary Frances Ramsey and Charles Hargexr play the leads. IHDJQ one Connie Dennis, Billy Biddle, Bobby Johnson, Georgia Par- 33 ag, V, , rott, and Leon Toler in The Florist Sbap. n... - VCL! E3 I ' . K.F lx A f ,S . . ,ww l , 1 I I-Q ' 1 '- . I N , nv' .inf Y -'f Y. 'P s.,,.- Al top: Craig XVhire, Michael Miller, Margaret Rhodes in Dear Ruth. Al left: Mary Frances Ram- sey, Linda Hardman, Mar- garet Rhodes, and Bobby johnson in another scene from Dear Ruth. ,fp l 11