Pineville High School - Kepi Yearbook (Pineville, LA)

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Enlarged and improved facilities for science instruction have been among top priority construction projects at Pine-ville High during the last five years. Because of increased emphasis upon scientific instruction and augmented requirements for graduation by the State Department of Education, the availability of new labs and classrooms has become doubly important. All students must now complete two credits in science instead of the single credit required in past years. To earn these credits each person enrolled at the school has a choice of biology, physics, or chemistry. Also, every year the science department holds a science fair in which each pupil is encouraged to enter a project. Many of these projects are judged good enough to be entered in both district and state science fairs where they often have rated top honors. Science and art belong to the whole world, and the barriers of nationality vanish before them. Goethe

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jfito basis ofr M QjMtAMAMQ To provide books, magazines, articles, pamphlets, film strips, recordings, and other materials that facilitate each student's education is the purpose of the library. It is important that ti e understand the language tie speak. In our English department emphasis is placed on improving diction, vocabulary, literary appreciation, and creative writing. Each student is required to take at least three full years of English. since it is important that all people fully understand the language they speak, and that they learn to speak and write it correctly. Students increase their vocabularies through reading and orthographic exercises. Besides vocabulary development, intensive study of grammar is required of students. This includes emphasis on sentence structure and the most effective ways to use words to state or write ideas clearly. Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely imbedded and preserved.” R. C. Trench The Study of Words Skits provide acting experience for speech students. 37

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£cie tc oW oji of tw G uv t ciuiofo y Mathematics studies demaud careful thinking and insight. Those who have completed any math course are quite aware of this fact. Successful study of math requires more than mere rote or memorization. Cognizant of this, the mathematics faculty at Pineville High demand that each student labor earnestly to achieve real success. The degree to which they have succeeded is reflected in an increasing number of our graduates who plan careers in fields such as engineering. Included in math offerings at our school are beginning, intermediate, and advanced algebra; plane geometry; trigonometry; and senior arithmetic. This variety of courses enables each pupil to select studies appropriate to his inidivdual needs. One course available at PHS which offers valuable training toward worthwhile employment is electronics. This is an accelerated course in fundamentals with more emphasis upon technical information and less on the manipulative aspects of the work. Instead of specifically training radio and television servicemen as in past years, the objective is to give a broad background in fundamentals which will prepare the student to be able to enter any one of several specialized fields in electronics. 39