Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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MUSIC APPRECIATION. GLEE CLUB. BAND MUSIC Hark ! Music is heard in the distance. Could it be coming front the Music Appreciation class ' Probably so. because that’s just what the class is interested in— music. We don’t have to be able to play the piano or even to sing, but what we want to learn is how to appreciate this fine art. We spend a great deal of our time studying both classic . 111(1 popular music is well as the old masters and modern composers. Also we study about orchestras, the various musical instruments, and how to recognize them by their sounds. Identification and recognition of musical compositions as done sometimes by the use of the victrola. We also play many operatic and sym¬ phonic records. Included in the work of the music department are the boys’ and girls’ glee clubs and the newly organized band. If you happen to be a member of the glee club, you spend many hours, both during school time and afterwards, practicing new numbers to be presented on some particular program or working on the opera. In fact, so much work is done in this connection that we receive one credit for participation in these clubs. The band is one of the most interesting features of the music department’s work for this year. Suffolk High School has for sometime been wanting to organize a band, and this year a sufficient number of interested students were found to begin practice. Sixth period found them gathered in the auditorium with their instruments, and under the expert direction of Mr. Beavers they soon passed the Sweet and Low” stage and progressed into more complicated selections. The band made its first public appearance at the Field Day exercises held in May. Mr. Kendall Beavers 1161

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BOOKKEEPING. TYPING. SHORTHAND COMMERCIAL STUDIES A speed of 120 words per minute for five minutes in shorthand, 60 words } er minute for ten minutes in typing--these and a few others are the trials and tribulations of us commercial students at Suffolk High. Probably no other room in school is used more than the typing room. Students can be heard long after school hours pecking away on typewriters in the larger typing room with its seven new typewriters—twenty-four now in all. Also some of us really go in the commercial course in a big way ami take two years of bookkeeping. A new course, business English, added this year, provides a stiff review of grammar, sibling, punctuation and letter writing, which should prepare any white-collar girl to correct all her employer’s mistakes. The Commercial Department is by no means selfish, for it offers a course in personal typing, mainly for those students who are not taking the regular com¬ mercial work, but who would like to know how to type. We know that excellent positions await us upon graduation if we meet all the requirements of this well-equipped department. “Put your fingers on the keys an l let ' s get started.” This new and larger typing mom is quite an improvement over last year ' s.

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REFERENCE, READING LIBRARY Silence! Quiet! How often we see those signs or hear those words in the library! How often we wonder why we have to be so quiet about the whole thing! We know really, though, that talking has no place in the library, that silence is essential for concentration. The library is one of the most popular places in school. It is the place where we go to do reference work, or to get a good novel to read, or to see the latest issue of some popular magazine or newspaper. During the third period so many of us want to go to the library that the number has to be limited to only those who have reference work to do. However, at all other | criods of the day, in the early morning, at lunch time, and after school in the afternoon, the library is o|x n for us to use. And another good feature about our library is the cooperation and help we get from our librarian. Miss Edwards, ami her student assistants, in finding materials on whatever subject we need. Certainly we have learned that this is a place where both teachers ami pupils find valuable materials in their work. Each year the library adds many new Imoks to its list. The teachers select many that they need in their work, ami the librarian chooses other titles that she knows will be popular with the students. The magazine rack is perhaps the most used section of the library, offering peri¬ odicals to satisfy a wide variety of individual interests. In order to have them always available, these magazines are never taken from the library. For hard, concentrative work or for an hour of quiet leisure there is no better place than the library. Mbs Mary Edwards “Qnii t, please! You ' re making loo much noisi !” Quiet is necessary for work ami study. Don’t forget it! H71