Shepard High School - Lion Yearbook (Zebulon, NC)

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Guidamz' Guidance services have always been a part of Shepard's history. Even when the faculty was small and individual responsibilities extensive, there were those on the staff to offer help whenever the students' personal decisions and crises required attention. 'I'hen, as now, the guidance-minded persons recognized the worth and dignity of each person and sought to always help each pupil become all that he could, Since 1961 a full-time professional counselor has been a part of the staff. The three per- sons who have served in this capacity are Frank L. Tumer, Benjamin F. Merritt, and Mrs, Verna L, Lee, Today 's guidance services are specifically designed to offer professional assistance in every phase of the students' development: personal, social, educational and vocational. To this end the guidance services are involved in the following activities: ,individual and group counseling, testing, assimilating and distributing educational and vocational information, orientation, placement and follow up, i

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Zrauspvrfafivu I 930-I 970 'I ri? Transportation services have been the key to the development of Shepard High School over the four, decades. Until 1930, neither Wake County nor the State of North Carolina had as- sumed responsibility for the transportation of black children. To meet the critical need, one second-hand Model T Ford school bus was provided as a gift of the incumbent principal, Such a method of meeting the challenge to provide transpor- tation for high school pupils from all areas of eastem Wake County to this union school was without parallel in this adminisuative unit, This bus served Wilder's Grove, Knightdale, Shot- well, Riley Hill, Wendell, White Oak, and Pilot communities, traveling approximately eighty miles daily. An example of the zeal and dedication of parents in the 1930's was that Mr, Arthur R. Perry, first bus driver for the high school transportation effort, served without monetary com- pensation forthe full year. Mr, Perry had the distinction of driving a school bus to Shepard for twenty years, longer than any other individual in Wake County, and of driving without acci- dent or traffic citation, Shepard High, today, 1970, is served by twenty-one buses in the Zebulon attendance area: in addition, five transfer buses operating outside the Zebulon attendance area transfer high school children from the Eagle Rock, Wendell, Rolesville areas to attend Shepard High. CHUUL BUS 'fill-'-

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U16 Wading Uzfwrairfry The Reading Laboratory at Shepard is one of the most important services made avail- able to our children, It is one of the ser- vices made available with ESEA funds that have been allotted to Title I. The need for the service is reflected in pupil per- formance from day to day as they are con- fronted with the tasks relating to the com- municative skills, The Reading Laboratoy is different from the traditional classroom. Seating arrange- ment, furniture, and equipment are different so that the children find new incentives to aspire to their levels of achievement. We are fortunate to have a wealth of material and equipment to help the teacher help the pupils to read more effectively. Equipment and material are adequate for group instruction, but special emphasis has . WIA 'ww-n '.i N. - ' K V- been placed on equipment and material for individual instruction. The pupils' experiences are both dif- ferently new and difficult enough to chal- lenge the enthusiasm and best efforts of the children, Intimate contact is made with each pu- pil since the maximum number per class is ten pupils. 3I