Searcy High School - Lion Yearbook (Searcy, AR)

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SPANISH As months pass into years, our once large, uncharted world gradually is growing smaller and more populated as its inhabitants become closer and more intimate. In striving for world- wide unity and peace we must attempt to under- stand our newly acquired neighbors . Therefore, by offering first and second year courses in Spanish, we at Searcy High School may obtain a basis for this understanding of our closest neighbors, South of the Border . Mrs. Helen Sutherlin Spanish

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SPEECH and DRAMATICS Gone is the time in which only those with great talent were trained in speech. Because of the wide spread media, radio and television, oral communication is additionally important for every person. The Speech Department endeavors to meet this need by offering classes in speech funda- mentals, public speaking, drama, and speech- drama. Voice improvement, correct pronun- ciation, debate and oratory, and theater arts are all covered in the courses. Mrs. Robert Bell Speech Dramatics Speech students study the quality of the voice by listening to themselves by means of a tape recorder.

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Mrs. Eloise Scroggins Math Mr. Pat Fox Math MATHEMATICS Geometric figures, mathematical applications, algebraic operations, and trigonometric functions spill forth from the brains of the math stu- dents of Searcy High School everyday. Though sometimes discouraged and frightened by the seemingly impossibility to understand the course, math students who have taken these courses never forget the class, be- cause the math department is constantly striving to enlighten students in fundamental concepts of mathematics, needed more and more as the years pass by. Many different aids are used to help mathematics students better understand their course.