Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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FUTURE TEACHERS OF AMERICA FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Ida Hove. Correspond¬ ing Secretary; Nancy Laws, Treasurer; Kathleen Living¬ ston, Vice President; Betsy Langeler, President; Anne Burns, Recording Secretary; Virginia Nock, Parliamen- ”Think you want to be a teacher?” The H.C. Byrd Club, Future Teach¬ ers of America, is named for a famous educator, Dr. Harry Clifton Byrd, President of the University of Maryland. This club is affiliated with the Mary¬ land State Teachers Association and the National Education Association. It of¬ fers young people activities through which they can improve themselves and cultivate the qualities of personality and character which are the foundations of tarian: Elizabeth Ellis. Historian SECOND ROW: Bar¬ bara Stockman, Norma Pollitt.Joan Askey.Mrs. Taylor, Faculty Advisor; Mary Mac Dick, Ruth Davis, Alberta Parker, Connie Kilmon. Becky Flurer, Mary Rue Dallas. successful teaching. The members in¬ vestigate the advantages of making teaching a career and find specific in¬ formation about the opportunities in the various fields of education. One of the highlights of the year was a trip to Pemberton School where the club observed the modern elementary school in session. The group benefited from another interesting trip to State Teachers College where they noted the methods of instruction. Some of the other events during the year included installation of officers; theF.T.A. assembly, at which Mr. Wil¬ lis H. White, State Supervisor of High Schools, was guest speaker; an infor¬ mal tea given by the sponsor; several guest speakers during the Wednesday morning club meetings who discussed the problems, opportunities , and re¬ quirements of teaching; and represen¬ tation of the club at the Maryland F. T. A. meeting in Baltimore. 14

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FUTURE HOMEMAKERS OF AMERICA FIRST ROW, LEFT - RIGHT: Joanne Parsons, Mary Frances Ratcliffe, Elizabeth Tull, Historian; Joanne Brown, Treasurer; Shirley Bradley, President; Barbara Malone, Secretary; Mary Evelyn Doepp,Vice President; Lois Trader, Barbara Ruark. SECOND ROW; Wanda Boz- man, Betty Nichols, Sandra Winkelvoss, Dot Jones, Judy Hensley, Naomi Pilkinton, Jean Marshall, Virginia Metz, Deanna Williams, Mrs. Middleton, Faculty Advisor. THIRD ROW; Janet Williams, Carolee Hastings, Rosalie Fields, Loretta Bethard, Patsy Calloway, Phyllis Pusey, Charlotte Murphy, Peggy Ruark. FOURTH ROW; Connie Riggin, Shirley Parsons, Virginia Livingston, Catherine Pope, Phyllis Lowe, Mary Jane Parsons, Nancy Lucy, Barbara filler, Peggy Wilson, Pat Walters. The Future Homemakers of America was organized in Wicomico High School in February, 1950. Since that time member¬ ship has increased to fifty girls who are interested in home economics and who have completed at least eighth grade. This club belongs to a state and national association, whose purpose is to acquaint girls with home economics and make it a valuable part of everyday life. F.H.A. colors are red for courage and determination and white for purity. The flower is the red rose, which is a symbol of good health. Most important is the motto Toward New Horizons, which signifies learning to live better today so that our lives and the lives of others may be better tomor¬ row. F.H.A. activities have included: serving at school banquets, being hostess to all chap¬ ters in our region at the spring business meeting, and planning and serving the annual May Day Tea. Plans for this year also in¬ cluded: filling a Christmas basket for a needy family, holding a Christ¬ mas party, serving as co-hostesses to annual regional and state meetings, sponsoring a Mothe r - Daughter Banquet, and completing work toward Junior and Chapter Homemaker degrees of achievement. --push this and turn that- 13

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FUTURE NURSES OF AMERICA FIRST ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Nona Dean Bonniwell, Sylvia Hastings, Chairman of Hours; Joyce Matthews, Vice President; Jean Small, Secretary; Marie Dixon, President; Ann Lee White, Treasurer; Sue Dana, Eloise Parker. SECOND ROW: Mrs. Samuel Layfield, Nurse Sponsor;Colleen Gordy, Geneva Parsons, Tillie Worth¬ ington, Ellen Tilghman, Joyce Massey, Elvira Mezick, Pat Patterson, Miss Hester Farlow, Faculty Advisor. THIRD ROW: Pat Taylor, Fae McGinnis, Pat Smith, Anne Eagler,Mary Dryden, Verona Moreash, Catherine Kaiser, Virginia Hughes, June Smack. The Future Nurses of America Club was started in the fall of 1951 under the direction of Miss Hester Farlow, with Mrs. Samuel Layfield as Nurse Sponsor. At the first meeting last fall, Marie Dixon was elected President; Joyce Matthews, Vice President; Ann Lee White 7 Treasurer; and Jean Small, Sec¬ retary. It was decided that the members had to have twenty-five points in order to receive their pins. A committee made a list of the things they could do, includ¬ ing club work, interviews, visits to places connected with nursing, and ob¬ servations over at the hospital. At Thanksgiving and Christmas the girls sent baskets of food and clothing to two needy families, and they acquired a wheelchair for the school from the Sal¬ vation Army. After January 1, five girls went to see Mrs. Layfield about their sister nurses. A ,, sister M nurse is usually a Scalpel, please . . . first year student at the hospital who is assigned to one of the girls. Near the end of the year, a tea was given by the girls in honor of their sisters . The last activity of the year was a banquet at which all of the girls who had earned enough points were given their pins. These pins were donated by the Junior Board Auxiliary. 15