Radford High School - Oak Leaf Yearbook (Radford, VA)

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More cj Memories In the largest Spanish Class in the history of the school—we find Jack Wray in deep concentration on his favorite subject—we wonder if it is the Spanish language he finds so interesting and absorbing or the Spanish women. Remember the mad trips to the library the day before book reports were due and the way we poured over re¬ search material for special reports? These are incidents we connect with our school iibrary. Amid the turmoil surrounding the life of a librarian, Miss Phillips still finds time to answer questions on all possible topics. Something new has been added! Yes, something new has been added in R. H. S. and if you have been in the lower hall third, fourth, fifth or sixth periods you have probably heard the clicking that accompanies the type¬ writers in Room 5. They are something we have been trying to get for a long time and now that they are here, the students are taking advantage of the opportunity offered them. The teachers, who are students from the Business Education Department of the College, are in¬ structing the boys and girls in how to become good typists without “hunting and pecking.” For those of us who dare to explore the field of higher mathematics, the one semester Solid Geometry class offers a welcome opening. Here the boys learn all the secrets of solid figures. They resort to polyhedrons, prisms, cones, and spheres as means of practical applica¬ tions to life situations in estimating areas and volumes of figures. This course is acceptable in any college and is emphatically advocated for future engineering students. David Branch and Bobby Foster with their instructor, Miss Fithel Roberts, seem to be able to hold the interest of all the senior boys. Where could all the girls be while this interesting subject is being presented? We wonder. [ 10 ]

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Faculty Mr. H. H. Hobgood Physical Education Miss Roberta Ingles English , Social Studies Miss Lois Jackson English , Science , Social Studies Miss Edna Reid English , General Language , Science , Social Studies Miss Ethel Roberts English , Solid Geometry , Algebra II, Social Studies Miss Farah Rust Home Economics Miss Beth Jordon Home Economics Mrs. Daphne Wall Chemistry, Physics Mrs. Opal S. Keffer Algebra I and II Miss Juanita Phillips Librarian Miss Ruth Weaver Religious Education Mrs. Glenn Young Biology Not Shown in Picture Mr. Lawrence Luzenski Industrial Arts [ 9 ]

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(Pan Happen Our Bible course has added a note of spirituality to our school environment. Under the directing hand of Miss Weaver, Margie Sue Divers finds it an easy task to give her report on the city of Palestine for .the benefit of her interested classmates. The type of study offered covers a wide range, and is attractively varied from day to day. In only two years’existence at R. H. S. the course has become one of the school’s most popular ones. High prices will not find these Home Economists unprepared, for they have learned wisely to make their own clothes. Appreciation of color harmony, correct dress lines and “when to wear what,” parallel the study of the basic principles of sewing in Miss Rust’s sewing classes. Here we see Mildred O’Neal having her skirt fitted by Betty Brooks. Not only do students of this course learn the funda¬ mentals of salesmanship but they also become familiar with correct business grooming and “counter-personality.” By holding part-time positions in down-town industries, these students practice each afternoon what Mr. Hatcher preaches every morning. Such terms as dry-cell batteries, density and mass may be bewildering to most of us, but are a part of the regular vocabulary of the students in Mrs. Wall’s Physics classes. They also learn that Ohm’s and Lenz’s laws do not apply to reckless driving, but are purely scientific. Judging from the number of girls enrolled in this class it appears that few dare to brave this rather manly course, and we still wonder why. t 11 ]