Patrick Henry High School - Patriot Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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Bill Fleshman and Bobby Dillard help Millie Zaech, our foreign drawl. Actually their speech cla student, lose her Swiss accent and acquire a Virginia southern dialects. 16

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iv 55 sv N W YW 5 -1 i v4 Q 'Z if Courtesy: Kathy Thornton ACADEMIC LIFE l i i ln spite of the hinrd work involved, students and teachers alike ,respond tai tlgeghallenging and ex- panded curriculum. New and more inclusive courses are being developed in modern languages, English, mathematics, history, science, the arts, and physical education. An exciting innovation this year was the class reading of Our Town in the amphitheatre and later the Fine Arts presentation, Serata.

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Last year teachers and Patrick Henry students participated in a new English program. During the summer of l962, area teachers meeting in curriculum revision workshops planned a system in which junior high students con- centrate their efforts on the learn- ing and usage of grammar. Such a system left the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grades free for an in- crease of reading, writing, and listening experiences. During the first six weeks all students were given diagnostic tests which indicated their weak- nesses and strengths in grammar. Thus teachers knew what emphasis to make in academic, general, and special English classes. Use of the Reading Improve- ment Lab was made available to any pupil who felt he would bene- fit. Six classes a day were taught. This was a non-credit course sub- stituted for study hall and taken only as long as the student needed instruction. Mrs. Elizabeth M. Drewry, A.B., Roan- oke College, M.A., Columbia University, Chairman of English Department, Advisor yearbook, Quill and Scroll. James L. Ayers, Eng- lish, Speech, Stage Craft, B.A., Roanoke College, Advisor The Thespian Society, The Drarnatics Club. Pupils Tackle New Rea ing BS a ford College. Mrs Sadie Daher Cote En lush B . Dimensions ln English iw--Ortega. Mrs. Ruth Dorsey, English, A.B., Ran- dolph Macon Wo- rnan's College, M,A. Columbia University G. A. McClearn, Eng llsh, B.S., M.A., Aus tin Peay State Col lege, Assistant Foot ball Coach tLineJ, Head Golf Coach. we nt my virgin in if-Kew? 'te' .. iqtawe A -ru. ft .. 5 a . .. '-ms-5 V . fi-sn tritevteiir' -. ir YM' 2 15' - .. . . ya -gtg-'W ,Q , it -in .tyst1r7i, 5i' .ff L my it rl l ' i 'WM1 itmiikilxfif . t ' t. Q + Em igwgeigtysi ,X itz .te -f .A . 'gift si Q -wsges'-tyre -f ,Q Y r :X 512 v ti ww yi , i za QQ ,J i ,wr Mrs. Mary H. Rich- ardson, English, B.A., Randolph Macon Wo- man's College, Advi- sor National Honor Society. .5 . J V. .g- ' Mrs. Mildred S. Sad- ler, Engish, B.A., Beaver College, M.- Ed., University of Virginia, Advisor Quill Magazine, Quill and Scroll. mum sin we Vs .fn.f.a. . . .. .. t ., ,gs .te ,, , .,. .. -...iefe.3':z? ft 'l f Mrs. Lecy H. Smith, English, E.A., West Virginia Tech., M.A., West Virginia Uni- versity. Mr. Beniamin L. Tay- lor, Jr., Dean, Per- singer Hall, English, General Science, 8.5. Hampden Sydney Calf lege, M.Ed., V, P. I. Mrs. Lottie W. Tice, Miss Jean L. Umber- Mrs. Elizabeth Q. English, B.A., Uni- ger, English, B.A., Ward, English, Gui- versity of Alabama, Roanoke College, M.- dance, B.S., Mary Advisor Red Cross, Ed., University of Washington College. Missouri, Advisor Y- Teen lnterclub Coun- cll. Mrs. Virginia D. Wood, English, B.A,, Roanoke College, Ad- visor The Statesman newspaper, Quill and Scroll. I7