Pineville High School - Kepi Yearbook (Pineville, LA)

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state-supported and private, in Louisiana and are easily able to compete academically with students from older and larger high schools. Members of the faculty continuously strive to improve teaching skills by attending institutes, summer workshops, and graduate schools. In the ten-year period of our school's existence, the percentage of faculty members holding the Master’s degree has risen from 27 percent to -13 percent. All of our teachers arc fully qualified in their subject-matter fields and are fully certified. Concerning the faculty, it is worthwhile to note that it has supplied the Rapides Parish school system with an assistant superintendent, three supervisors, and two principals. As our school's first decade comes to a close, we look back with pride of accomplishment and gratitude for community support, but we also look ahead to even greater achievements which certainly must be accomplished by those who will be our successors. 5

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Hail to thee, Alma Mater, Fairest of them all. Blithe scenes of happiness Our memories recall; Though o’er the world we roam, In our hearts ever lie— Loyalty, faithfulness To our dear Pineville High. Fon uMnA . . . Schools are rather like people. Obviously this is true because they arc aggregations of human beings. As such they can be successful or mediocre. Occasionally, they may even fail to achieve many of the purposes for which they are created. After ten years of existence, a school should have a set standard of performance, and such is the case with Pineville High School. From the first day of classes at our school the conscious aim of administration, faculty, and student body has been to develop the best school possible. To this end course offerings have been increased from thirty in 1952-1953, our first session, to forty-nine in 1961-1962, our tenth. Physical facilities have increased from eighteen classrooms to thirty-two classrooms plus a modern cafeteria and a completely equipped gymnasium. Presently a commodious stadium and athletic field, which will be completed before the end of the present session, is under construction. In addition to these improvements, guidance services are now available to all students, and a foreign language lab and a large bandroom with practice rooms are included in the school's instructional facilities. Though plant improvements are highly desirable, without a record of scholastic achievement buildings, 4 and such things have little meaning. To match physical improvements in the school's facilities, students from Pineville High have consistently shown that they receive good secondary school training. For eight consecutive years our entrants in the Central Louisiana Literary Rally have taken top honors and have won over all other double-A competitors. In the period 1954 to 1961, the percentage of our graduates who entered college rose from 42 percent to 69 percent. Graduates of our school enter all the institutions of higher learning, both

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LITERARY RALLY Pincvillc High School took first place honors in the Central Louisiana Literary Rally for the eighth consecutive year. Our entrance had competition from 700 students from thirty other Central Louisiana schools. Cenla Rally was again held at Louisiana College where tests were given to students in their respective fields. Out of thirty-one Rebels who were eligible to attend the State Rally, because of their performance in Cenla Rally, fifteen placed first, second, or third. CtM l STATE RALLY WINNERS, FIRST ROW, left to right: Mary Lou del Toro, Mary Ann Wendorf, Carolyn Price, Margaret Wethcrford, Georgia Johnson, Marilyn Jo Humphries, Roxinc Merwin. SECOND ROW: Jack Merwin, Mike Yoist, Thomas Howell, Frank Thibodeaux, Larry Johnson, Harvey I.uttrell, Nclda Nalley, and Kaye Roberts. State Uteta ty Rallies CENLA RALLY WINNERS. FIRST ROW, left to right: Anna Morrison. Judy Williamson, Mary Lou del Toro, Janice Brock, Peggy McGee, Roxine Merwin, Weslyn Sweeny, Paula Jo Leatherman. SECOND ROW: Joseph Burna-man, Bonnie Sowers. Carolyn Price. Mary Ann Wendorf, Kaye Roberts, Marjorie Floyd, Georgia Johnson, Marilyn Jo Humphries, Nelda Nalley. Margaret Weatherford. THIRD ROW: Jimmy Mag-nan. Frank Thibodeaux, Mike Yoist, Thomas Howell, Jerry Meredith. Larry Johnson, Harvey I.uttrell, Sharon Derbonne. Pinky Parker. FOURTH ROW: John Pell. Jack Merwin, Don Howard, and Paul Taylor.