Waynesboro High School - Skyline Yearbook (Waynesboro, VA)

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Assigning timed writings, discovers Mrs. Reba Brooks, creates better typists. New lab equipment constmcts a better atmosphere for shorthand students of Miss Carol Critzer. The clackety-clack of man¬ ual typewriters mingles with the hum of new electric type¬ writers and the mechanical voice of a dictation in a second floor hall. These are the sounds that issue from the classrooms of business in¬ structors Mr. John Gilbert, Miss Gwynn Pullen, Miss Carol Critzer, and Mrs. Reba Brooks. Typing drills, shorthand practices, bookkeeping exer¬ cises, the requirements of a business course at Waynesboro High School, have been made more interesting with the addi¬ tion of laboratory equipment to the business department. Commercial world Miss Gwendolyn Pullen practices typing. Machines play a big part in our lives, and business de¬ partment head John Gilbert shows Gary Robertson their value to the business world.

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Providing oral work creates a more knowledgeable French student is a theory put in practice by foreign lan¬ guage department head, Mr. Nat Forbes. to develop listening, speaking skills. Carrying on entire class conversations in Spanish can sometimes lend suprising results, Mrs. Martha Bell has proven. Overlooking an occasional remark of Oh, yon know what I mean! , Mrs. Bell ' s third year Spanish was conducted entirely in Spanish. In addition to the new third year Spanish class, the language department initi¬ ated a third year of Latin and offered five years of French. Headphones and microphones became customary sights in French and Spanish classes, as the language laboratory was used extensively to reinforce oral comprehension and pro¬ nunciation . 27

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Mr. Bruce Robinette and Mrs. Lucy Parker create exhibits which provide DE students with a lively classroom atmosphere. is previewed in business courses. Sophomores in 1965-66 were offered a course in retailing by the distributive education de- ' partment for the first time. A proving ground for prospec¬ tive DE students, this course gives a student an opportunity to discover if retailing is the field he wishes to enter. Part-time employment in the retailing field combined with classroom instruction under Mr. Bruce Robinette and Mrs. Lucy Parker to provide invaluable DE experience for interested juniors and seniors.