Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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to Perfect Useful Skills MRS. TOM MOODY times her class in a 5-minute exercise for speed and accuracy. Mrs. Moody attended Georgia Southern College where she received her B.S. in education. She teaches typing I and II. Gene Tucker puts his DE training into practice as he sells school supplies to David Bennett in the Southern Stationery and Printing Company's retail department. Typing students Tommy Dove, Joy Smith, Barbara Loeb, and Faye O'Quinn catch up on their homework before school one morning. 27

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Business Classes Strive Practice makes perfect! That is the fond hope of teachers and students in the commercial department. Typing classes learn the mechanics of the typewriter and the fine points of letter and manuscript typing. They work for speedy, accurate transcriptions. Speed is also an important factor to shorthand students as they take dicta- tion and then transcribe what they have written into good English. Business English is required of those choosing the complete commercial pro- gram. Many also elect business arith- metic and bookkeeping. In distributive co-operative training and distributive education, two on-the- job programs, students learn about the actual production and marketing of products. These students leave for their jobs at the end of fourth period. Typing I and Shorthand I instructor, MISS SARAH DEAN ADAMS, earned her A.B. in English from VSC and her M.Ed. at the University of Georgia. MR. W. E. GLENN and MR. JAMES P. HORN take a coffee- break during their free period. Mr. Glenn received his B.S. Ed. and M.S.Ed. in distributive education from the Univer- sity of Georgia. He later attended Georgia Southern and Penn State. Mr. Horn received his B.S. in social studies from Troy State College and his M.S. in school administration from Auburn University. Mr. Horn teaches DCT classes. 26

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Rhythm, Melody Add Tuneful MISS JANE MEEKS plays the melody to Hi Ho, Nobody Home for a chorus class. Miss Meeks received her B.A. in humanities, with emphasis in music, from VSC. She teaches fifth and sixth period choral classes. Every school day the VHS band building re- sounds with throbbing rhythms and melodic voic- es as the band and choral classes practice. In these two music programs, musically gifted students find outlets for their talents. Miss Jarte Meeks guides the two choral groups in the study of part singing and theory and in singing for personal enjoyment. Chapel programs and two concerts give the choruses opportunities to perform before audiences. Band classes learn a varied repertory of classi- cal and marching music. They play at football games, parades, and special concerts. As an innovation this year, a pep band added life to winter basketball games. Judy Powell and Barbara Burch, sixth period glee club librarians, sort and file new musical scores. 28