Walter Hines Page High School - Buccaneer Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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Fred Birdsong, “acting assistant teacher,” uses the compass to prove a theorem in honor geometry. search for a good education As William Bennett explains the use of the slide rule, Ken Vaughn, in deep thought, seems to be thinking, “I’ll master this yet.” Geometry V and VI were taught by Mr. S. R. Deans and Mr. H. L. Chadwick. Their students used the many theorems, postulates, and corollaries they learned in working with loci, inequalities, geo¬ metric reasoning, and coordinate geometry. An honors geometry course taught by Mr. Will Bennett was begun at Page this year as a part of a nation-wide program. Sophomores who were a part of the program last year continued their study of specialized mathematics. Solid Geometry VII taught by Mr. Bennett dealt j with lines and planes, polyhedrons, cylinders and cones, and the sphere. In Trigometry VIII, taught by | Mr. Deans, students learned to work with rectangular I and polar coordinates, trigonometric functions, graphs j of trigonometric functions, logarithms, reduction I formulas, fundamental identities, and trigonometric I equations. Many of the students who wanted to pursue a | career in the science and engineering fields took the I course of College Algebra IX taught by Mr. Deans. ! Some of the most important things which the stu- i dents worked with were linear equations, progres- I sions, mathematical induction, and the binomial the¬ orem, logarithms, inequalities, determinants, and I; partial fractions. MRS. MARGARET F. VADEN Algebra General Math 11

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MR. H. L. CHADWICK Algebra Geometry For students who seem dubious about a trig problem, Mr. Deans uses constructions to help solve it. Mathematics proves vital part in the Algebra III students, Anne Douglas and Joe Santen, con¬ centrate on working problems at the board. Theorems . . . cosine . . . logarithms . . . these are just a few of the odd sounding terms that one could hear Page math students muttering this year. Six fields of mathematics were offered at Page this year: General Math III and IV, Algebra I through IV, Plane Geometry V and VI, Solid Geom¬ etry VII, Trigonometry VIII, and College Algebra IX. Mrs. Margaret Vaden’s General Math III and IV students worked problems using decimal fractions, lines and angles, common fractions, ratio, and graphs. The fundamentals of first year algebra were taught in Algebra I and II by Mrs. Vaden. Algebra I dealt mostly with formulas, simple equations, signed num¬ bers, and computing with polynomials. Algebra I students also learned to work with first degree equa¬ tions, containing one unknown, and systems of linear equations. Algebra II was a little more difficult for the students. They used fractions and fractional equations, square roots, quadratic equations, and ra¬ tios in this course. Algebra III students taught by Mr. Harold Evans and Mr. H. L. Chadwick used their first year fundamentals in solving more difficult problems. These problems included algebraic frac¬ tions, functional relations, systems of first degree equations, and the theory of quadratic equations. Under the direction of Mr. Will Bennett, Algebra IV students worked with quadratic equations having two unknowns, exponents, powers and roots, loga¬ rithms, and sequences of progressions. The course included an extensive study of various fields of ge¬ ometry, including congruences, planes in space, equalities, inequalities, and parallel lines. 10

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MRS. OLIVE M. BETTS Sophomore English MISS CAROL JOYCE CARSON Sophomore English Reading, writing, listening, speaking, and think ing— these are the five fields of communication. Since a per¬ son is judged by his ability to use his native language, a strong emphasis is placed on English as a required phase of the curriculum. English students were kept busy at Page this year writing compositions, building their vocabulary, memor¬ izing poetry, making outlines, and reading books for parallel reports. Seniors, under the instruction of Mrs. Iris Hunsinger, Mrs. Margaret Garrett, and Miss Carol Lucas, probed deep into their pasts for material to make their autobio¬ graphies interesting. They participated in skits and dem¬ onstrations of medieval times, as they portrayed Chau¬ cer’s Canterbury Pilgrims. Then members of the Class of 1961 became actors of the Elizabethan Age as they played scenes from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The final as¬ signment of the year was to write a “college level” term paper. Extensive studies in literature MRS. MARGARET O. GARRETT Senior English MRS. IRIS D. HUNSINGER Senior English Ideas that may shake the world go down on papers as students take a test in Mr. Newton’s class. 12