Northampton High School - Torch Yearbook (Eastville, VA)

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PREPARE FOR VOCATIONS Jim Wood demonstrates the art of selling to the customer sentation to DE III class. Larry Crosley applies his DE in a sales demonstration. Albert Mason gives a sales pre- classroom instruction to on-the-job” training. MR. CHARLES HARRIS Sponsor of Distributive Educa tion Club, Coordinator of Dis¬ tributive Education Distributive Education offers students opportuni¬ ties for classroom instruction and on-the-job” train¬ ing. A three-year sequence of courses is offered, starting in the tenth grad e. One-the-job” training is included in the eleventh and twelfth grades. Maggie Badger shows the finer points of cos¬ metics to Dorotha Culver in a sales demonstration for DE II class. Geraldine Mears, Patricia Tankard, and Cindy Mathewson re¬ view merchandise manual entries for the DECA District Con¬ test. 23

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BUSINESS AND DE STUDENTS Studying tax forms interests Steve McCready, Phil Turner, and Peggy Ames in Bookkeeping I. MRS. MARY N. KELLAM Business Department MR. BERKLEY E. ASHBY Business Department Spon¬ sor of Eleventh Grade Sponsor of Jr. Tri-Hi-Y Sponsor of Torch With the recent emphasis placed on vocational education by our Federal government, NHS offers to its students, courses in typing, shorthand, book¬ keeping, and general business. Many of the courses can be applied either in a job employment situation or for personal use. Mrs. Kellam dictates a letter to Barbara Oakley and Ann Boole for transcription. Dan White, Dixon Leatherbury, Hubert Doughty, Kathleen Turner, Janey Nottingham, and Jo Gregory are taught tabula¬ tion by Hr. Ashby as part of the requirements for Typing I. 22

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ART AND MUSIC FOSTER SELF EXPRESSION Steve Lewis and Diane Hope paint the ceramics they made in art class. Tony Partin and George Metz find perspective drawing has its problems. Mrs. Ellen Camden teaches art and Mr. Jay Meek teaches music at Northampton High and at Cheriton, Birdsnest, and Exmore-Willis Wharf elementary schools. The Music Department, with Mr. Meek as its director, has 47 members, who are from all five grades. During a school year the band is engaged in various activities both as a class and as an organi¬ zation. As a class, the band learns the fundamentals of expression and the techniques to be used in per¬ formance. As an organization, it uses talent and labor in performing for school functions, football games, pep rallies, and at public events, such as Armed Forces Day and the Exmore Chamber of Com¬ merce Christmas program. The Band also gives an annual spring concert in connection with the school chorus. Art students have opportunities for creative expression and development of techniques. The Art Department displays its work on attractive bulletin boards in the hall at regular intervals. Students have the opportunity of electing four years of art train¬ ing. Johnny Downing rolls his clay while Bill Valos uses the potter’s wheel. 24