Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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In the mornings Miss Evans can be found distributing forms from the office to her home base students. Only minutes later she will teach these students BA English literature. Our Teacher, Sponsor, And Friend ■‘A run-on sentence in a caption?” questions Miss Evans as she examines the Missile dummy. During her two free periods, she is always ready and willing to assist the staff in any way she can. 9

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We Salute A Truly Dedicated Educator Miss Evans marvels at the audaci tv of Mr. Alexander to in- terrupt her class while she teaches Hamlet. Helping a student to understand the difficult 7A English course is a task which Miss Evans welcomes. Debbie Barney recites The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales as Miss Evans listens intently. 3 The ability to express one’s self clearly, in speaking and in writing, is perhaps the most use- ful gift anyone can possess. A knowledge and a love of the world’s great literature is an accom- plishment that will always be a source of pride and enjoyment. These are among the things which Miss Frances I. Evans has endowed to her students. To express our extreme gratitude to Miss Evans for her devotion as a teacher and for her dedication as the sponsor of the Missile is almost an impossible task. As a result of her travels to England and other European countries, she has made the settings of English literature come alive for her students. We can say only that her patience and help on this annual have helped to make it what it is today. Miss Evans’s wit, clear and sharp, has bright- ened many lessons. Few junior and senior English students can forget her dramatic interpretations of Poe, the Canterbury Tales, and Hamlet. The vitality and enthusiasm of her recitations have made literature more meaningful. It seems appropriate that as Miss Evans is leaving Petersburg High, the Missile staff should give her a final salute — our thanks for the help she has given us. Miss Evans has given more to her students than knowledge ; she has given them the will to learn, to seek, and to know. So with gratification the 1968 Missile staff proudly dedi- cates this yearbook to Miss Frances I. Evans, our teacher, sponsor, and friend.

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Each year art students work hard for many months for their annual salute to a country. In 1967 the students of this school were given the opportunity to visit Israel at the Art Building. Bo Cameron, Donna Arnold, Danny Davis, and Floyd Noon are illustrating the native dress of that country. The world around which the whole school revolves is the academic world. Many able and skilled teachers using the latest teaching techniques help to instill in the students a knowledge of the world around them, coupled with a practical use of this knowledge. This fiftieth anniversary year marks an era of change at Petersburg High. New courses have helped 1 growing student body to become educated in or field they wish to pursue. Within the last few years all courses have been equipped with the most modern teaching facilities, enabling the faculty to add interest and diversity to the course of study. Some students will fly an airplane or work with com- plicated machinery for the first time in their lives this year, giving them valuable experience in a field in which they may seek a career. With change our school continues to grow and develop, preparing its students for the procedure in a modern world. 10