Wakefield High School - Starstone Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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Mr. Campbell and Ethelyn Abbott discuss college choices. Bill Bawcombe and Bruce Harting check their College Board ratings with Mrs. Stout, Bursar. Guidance The Guidance Department assists students in getting the most from their experience at Wakefield by helping them understand themselves in relation to the school. Counselors are assigned to each sophomore class as it enters school and remain with the class until its grad- uation. The present counselors for the senior class are Miss Wilson and Mr. Winkler; for the juniors, Mrs. Algor and Mr. Neal; and Mrs. Davis and Mr. Lynch for the sophomores. Mr. Campbell is Director of Guidance at Wakefield. Both students and their parents are encouraged to bring their problems to the Guidance Department. The counselors try to help students understand and solve their academic and personal problems and hold confer- ences with parents, teachers, and other persons con- cerned with the pupil. The Guidance Department also collects material on colleges and vocational choices to help students plan their future. Every year the Guid- ance Department sponsors College Night in which rep- resentatives from leading colleges attend and speak to parents and students about the requirements and ful- fillment of a college program. MRS. ELIZABETH ALGOR Eleventh Grade Counselor MR S. RAE EDYTHE DAVIS Tenth Grade Counselor MR. JAMES LYNCH Tenth Grade Counselor MR. RICHARD NEAL Eleventh Grade Counselor MISS EVELYN MR. LAWRENCE WILSON WINKLER Senior Counselor and Senior Counselor College Counselor Keyettes 19

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Directors MR. MILO W. SONEN Mr. Francis Campbell has been Wakefield ' s Director of Guidance since the school opened in 1953. His chief responsibility is assign- ing teachers and students to classes in planning the year. Each student’s schedule must fit his individual needs, interests, and abilities, and the master schedule hanging behind Mr. Campbell’s desk represents the complexity of finding a room for every class and its teacher. Junior high and high school students, coming to Wakefield for the first time, receive assistance from Mr. Campbell in planning their high school program. Mr. Campbell supervises the cumulative records of all the students and maintains com- munication between the Administration and the Guidance Depart- ment. Our Director of Health, Physical Education, and Athletics is Mr. Milo Sonen, a Wakefield resident for seven years. Mr. Sonen is in charge of co-ordinating the Health and Physical Education instruc- tional program at the school and, with regard to athletic activities, takes care of ticket sales in the cafeteria. He also is partially re- sponsible for overseeing the behavior of Wakefield crowds at ath- letic games and often makes announcements over the school pub- lic address regarding this behavior and reminding students and faculty of important future games. At Wakefield, Mr. Sonen has the very important function of heading the instructional program in civil defense. Thus he is in charge of classroom civil defense training and takes part in the planning of school disaster drills throughout the year. A former football official for fifteen years and an alumnus of the University of Maryland, Mr. Sonen has participated in activities outside of school related to his admin- istrative duties. Among these outside activities are the Virginia Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development and the National Conference on Fitness for Secondary School Youth. MR. FRANCIS M. CAMPBELL 18

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Students in Mrs. Armstrong’s English II class present the as- sassination scene from Julius Caesar as part of their classroom experience in interpretation of drama. 10th Grade English The English Department, whose head is Mrs. Olive Pawley, is the largest department in the school with 32 teachers. In English II classes, Sophomores begin de- veloping their language skills and take a serious look at world literature. They study the different writing forms — the short story, the novel, essays, and plays,— learn the format of a research paper, and begin to de- velop the techniques of expository writing. Every sophomore English class spends two weeks in the read- ing clinic with Mrs. Minor. MRS. DICIE ARMSTRONG English II MISS CELIA BURROWS English II Solis Tri-Hi-Y MRS. MARY HANCOCK English II Alpha Tri-Hi-Y MRS. MARY KENDRICK English II Psi Tri-Hi-Y EDWINA MRS. STELLA KNIPLING MATALAS English II English II MRS GLORIA MISNER English II Iota Tri-Hi-Y MISS BEVERLY PERKINS English II Psi Tri-Hi-Y MRS. HELENA POWELL English II MISS ANN SULLIVAN English n Ultra Tri-Hi-Y MRS. MARY TOIVANEN Journalism English H, III Signal Adviser MRS. ROLENE WELLS English II 20