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

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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

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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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While the library’s main objective is to foster intense coverage of classroom studies and current events, it also caters to student interests. Besides the shelved materials, it provides for student pur¬ chases of paper back books not available on the shelves but often suggested by instructors. Too, it devotes space to vocational and professional in¬ formation pamphlets and college catalogues prof- ferred by the guidance office. Yes, the library is a room of the mind and for the mind, a world where the dreamer may retreat to a realm of fancy or where the realist may es¬ cape the tediousness of his routine for a vicarious sojourn in the land of romance. ' Finally, the library, Riverheads’ most indispensable facility, is a haven where romanticist and realist alike chase dreams and mold a reality unscathed by the veil of ignorance. the Learning Process Gary Shuey and Dennis Link work intently on world geography while their fellow students enjoy an enriching research hour, poring over atlases, discovering the height of Mt. Everest and the length of the Nile River. 13