William Byrd High School - Black Swan Yearbook (Vinton, VA)

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The students who enter Into WIllIam Byrd are gIven In theIr freshman year choIce as to WhlCh of the programs they wIll follow Some plannIng ahead to theIr college careers choose the College Preparatory course ln thIs course students VSCEIVE a fIrm ground work In EnglIsh dIscover bIology and chemIstry and are Instructed In the complexItIes of algebra and geometry For other students who plan a future In the fuelcl of secretarIal or clerIcal work the Com mercIal course IS Ideally suIted StudyIng In these fIelds commercIal students learn typIng shorthand bookkeepmg and sImIlar arts whIch prepare them for theIr futures MusIcIans practIce darly In band class under the guIdance of Mr SIms P 'l'1 A thIrd group of students IS sametImes un clecIded about theIr futures or plans ThIs group takes the General course whIch QIVGS students a broad general background In the fundamental sublects as well as much free dom to choose electIve subjects accordIng to IndIvIdual Interest WIllIam Byrd IS a small school and In the correspondingly small class groups much stress IS placed upon IndIvIdual actIon and Independent thInkIng The Instructors have tume to devote to each students IndIvIdual Interest or need and by thIs system a superror type of InstructIon IS accomplIshed A student who has graduated from Byrd IS well prepared for whatever he deslres to do In lIfe Future cItIzens l arn about our natIon In Mr RIchards government class I I l I I ' 1 , . . . . - I ' I - ' I I I I ' I I . , WX - E ' 1 , . I . ,.7 1' 'Y X I , tl A 5 -. I A I I2

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2 JN! f There as one member of the faculty of Wrllxam Byrd Hugh School who has played an Integral part an the twenty flve volumes of the Black Swan By her selfless devotnon to her work as sponsor of the staff for many of these twenty five years she has made an nmportant contrlbutnon to the school Also as lnbraruan she has gunded and dlrected the students In their search for knowledge To repay In part our nnexpressable debt to her we dedicate this the twenty flfth volume of the Black Swan to Mrs lrma T Moseley f!2cyfl-JQ1,zp,ZgA7 Zi? , 5 ' 0-.1 ' f Q 1 l N l T , l wwf