Surry Central High School - Aquila Yearbook (Dobson, NC)

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languages complement each other. Evelyn Holyfield, A.B. Meredith College French I, II, III Composition Yearbook Adviser National Honor Society Adviser Three years of French at Surry Central offer students an opportunity to attain a degree of proficiency in both speaking and writing a foreign language. Records, tape recordings, French songs and games, and correspondence with French- speaking boys and girls aid in this program. In French II students begin supplementary reading, usually short stories of simple construction. In French III this reading continues with short biographies of important Frenchmen, geographical selections, excerpts from works of French authors, and a complete play. The play, often by a modern French author, is one that will be presented in French at UNC-G during the year-by Le Treteau de Paris, a group from the famed Comedie Fran aise. Students from the French III class then enjoy the evening performance on the UNC-G campus. Members of the French III class study the play they will see at Aycock Auditorium in Greensboro. 13

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Studies of the English and the French Because it is through the use of English that a person ex¬ presses himself, the English department devotes time to the rules of grammar so that the student may speak and write more clearly. Because the people of the ages have expressed themselves in literature, the English department devotes time to a study of writing so that the student can appreciate his legacy of the written word. Journalism, a new class added in the English department this year, has as its main functions to collect news items, to Students of the journalism prepare and distribute the school paper, and to serve on The Aguila staff. Through this work, students develop alertness, promptness, and responsibility. They become familiar with good journalistic works while learning the vocabulary, style, and purposes of professional writing. Offered to seniors, the course provides the student an opportunity to use his desire to write and to see some of his compositions in print; every student must prepare one article each month for the school paper. In this manner, he gets a firsthand working knowledge of the English language. class survey their finished product, an issue of the Centralette. Virginia C. Cooke, B. S. Appalachian State English II Clara Greene, B. S. Appalachian State English I James McPherson, B. S. East Tennessee State English I, II, Journalism C. Wayne Nance, B. S. Yearbook Adviser Appalachian State Newspaper Adviser English III 12

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Students find math hard, but interesting. Mathematics, a tool used by man throughout centuries of time, has made possible mass production, mechanization, and even space exploration. The mathematics de¬ partment at Central strives to im¬ part to each student a knowledge of the use of this tool which will best fulfill his basic needs, not only in his high school career, but through¬ out his entire life. For many stu¬ dents, this includes a detailed study of the basic principles and concepts of mathematics, as well as the application of mathematics to other subjects. For most, how¬ ever, mathematics gives experi¬ ence in the computations common to the business affairs of daily life. Students prepare to carry out an experiment in physics. Ann B. Patterson, B. S. Appalachian State Geometry Mary Ellen Blevins, B. S. Appalachian State Algebra and Physics Z. Wayne Thompson, B. S. Wingate Appalachian State General Math Business Math 14