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

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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

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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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and grammar are stressed in English classes MISS CAROL LEE LUCAS Junior English Senior English All junior class members tried their writing ability and creativity when they became amateur authors of short stories. Miss Carol Lucas and Mr. Bob Newton, who taught junior English this year, included in their course a thorough study of American literature. While studying Melville’s Moby Dick, one of the greatest American novels, the “white whale” was pursued not only by Captain Ahab, but by every junior. Poetry, es¬ says, and short stories were the three fields of literature stressed, and the giants in each field were studied. With the guidance of Mrs. Olive Betts, and Miss Carol Carson, the sophomores achieved a knowledge of great literature from all parts of the world. The highlights were George Eliot’s Silas Marner, a novel set in nine¬ teenth century England, and Julius Caesar, one of Shake¬ speare’s greatest works. The phonograph became very useful when “The King and I” was studied. MR. ROBERT A. NEWTON Junior English Canterbury Pilgrims” from Mrs. Gar¬ rett’s honors English 7 class feast at Tabard Inn. Voices blend in a Geoffrey Chaucer adaption of Davey Crockett” in Miss Lucas’ English 7 class. “All the perfumes of Arabia will not swee¬ ten this little hand.” Carolyn Crooke enacts the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth in Mrs. Hunsinger’s class. 13