Riverheads High School - Dimensions / Colosseum Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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Susan Young, Mrs. Ramsey, Kenneth Mason, and Joe Lotts meet to examine new guidance information, fresh from the mail. The guidance offices are well-equipped with college catalogues, brochures and information concerning all facets of life’s labor opportunities. The Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and various guidance and testing services cooperate with Riverhead’s guidance office by supplying information material. Is to Guide a Mind Mr. Clayton B. Phillips and Mr. Harry Rickard discuss the joys and difficulties involved in guidance. Could their looks of sly amusement be about forthcoming STEP and SCAT tests?

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Mrs. Ramsey, the upperclass guidance counselor discusses sequential aptitude test scores with Eddie Ellinger, a senior. By analyzing Eddie’s scores, Mrs. Ramsey will be better able to guide him into the profession or vocation for which he is qualified. To Lend a Hand High school guidance is founded on the reputed premise that no two persons are alike. The River- heads guidance office approaches it from the angle of helping students to choose intelligently their day by day living. Too, guidance centers around the . three tracts of education offered at Riverheads: academic, for col¬ lege bound pupils; vocational, for agriculture, busi¬ ness, and home economics students; and general, for students who do not intend to continue theii studies. Mrs. Mollie Ramsey, who works with eleventh and twelfth graders, Mr. Clayton Phillips, who works with eighth and ninth grade girls, and Mr. Harry Rickard, who works with ninth grade boys and tenth graders, besides their routine guidance work, share the love affairs, home, economic, fi¬ nancial, social, and emotional problems of the ado¬ lescents who seek their assistance. However, planning academic schedules in ac¬ cordance with individual pupils future occupies a large portion of the counselors’ day. Mrs. Ramsey, in her work with upperclassmen, mainly concerns herself with preparing transcripts and recommenda¬ tions for college-bound students, business school as¬ pirants, and technical school candidates. Thus, guidance may be summed up as the process by which the counselors open students’ eyes to life’s expansive and challenging panorama of opportunity. 10

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Mrs. Augusta Patterson prepares to check out books, but smi les as two girls try to (decide between Faith Baldwin’s latest love story and the profound, awe-inspiring works of Dickens, Hugo, and Tolstoy suggested by English instructors. Research Enhances On the second floor at Riverheads exists a room of the mind and for the mind. Under the main¬ tenance of Mrs. Augusta Patterson, who holds an A.B. degree from Mary Baldwin College and has studied library science at Madison College, the school library expands its material for mental en¬ richment and cultural refinement. Complete with the latest periodicals and modern publications, the library also contains novels, short stories, drama essays, and poetry by the masters such as Maugham, Kipling, Shakespeare, Emerson, and Longfellow. Up-to-date encyclopedias and reference sources provide pupils with appropriate material for re¬ search papers and term projects in any class of¬ fered at Riverheads. Teachers, as well as students, frequent the library, digging for that extra morsel to - challenge young minds or searching for film strips and records to clarify seemingly incompre¬ hensible subject matter. Not only is the library a scene of independent study, for it houses several study halls. Perhaps the study halls violate the rooms customary sacred silence, but the effect is warmly human. 12