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BAILEY BUGLE. BAILEY, NORTH CAROLINA, APRIL, 1961 PAGE 12 BAILEY SCHOOL OFFERS SPANISH OI’LY SPANISH CLASS IN COUNTY Soventeen students are enrolled in Nash County's only Spanish class. This xrartiuer includes nine sen iors, AM‘BROCK, MDRA CO- ZiiPtT, BILL BOYKIN, B/iRBA- ?A SUE LAM, SARAH PRIV^ STTE, 1-UJlTH.i RAE BOYKIN, EDDIE RAY CREECH, T/iLM/iDGE VfrllTLEY, arid' BETTY BE/iRD. Mrs, Iris L, Ross, last year's Spanish teacher, x-:as an enthusiastic promo ter of the langxiage. Much of her enthusiasm has been carried over into a second year by her students. This year, Mrs. LORRAINE E, BASS is behind the teach er' s desk. Mrs, Bass com mutes daily from Wilson, "The teaching program is leaning tovrard aural-oral programs which are intend ed to give students exper ience in hearing and speak ing the,language as a na tive," states Mrs. Bass. N. D. E. A. Recently through the N, D,‘E. A. (National Dofenee for Education Act) program in Bailey, the class re ceived many teaching aids which include a transcrip tion record player equip- ed to handle earphones, a now set of records, and seven film strips. Some of the students have made colorful posters, and others have prepared in teracting reports as pro jects. The main objective of the class is. to loarn to communiC'lto with our Spanish-spealcing neighbors south of the border. SENIOR GETS.TASTE OF COLLEGE STUDIES William W, (Bill) Boykin, one of Bailey High's sen iors, has recently coinp- leted by television, a course in solid geometrj’’. Bill realized that solid geometry was required for his college entrance. Since it was not offered at Bailey High, he decided to do something about it. After investigation he learned that the course was offered by television through North Carolina State College. For one whole semester. Bill sat by the television set each Tuesday and Thursday from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. listen ing to Dr. Henry C. Cooke, of North Carolina State College expound the prin ciples of higher mathema tics. One grade, a final exam ination, determined the results of the five months of work, ACCEPTED Bill has been accepted at North Carolina State col lege for the fall semester of 1961, and will enter with solid geometry added to his high sch^'Ol courses. At present, Eddie Ray Cretich, another senior, is taking the course by cor- ‘respondence. The i960 Genus states that the United States population is 179,323,17'?, The North Carolina popu lation is li,556,155. Each of the 25,060 FIlAv*ers in our state iread and enjoy the State FHA Magazine everr/ month. TE/.CHER BECOMES STUDENT Miss’' Edith Farmer,algebra and geometry teacher at Bailey High, hae been at tending classes at. North Carolina State College ^ each Saturday since Sep- ^ tember. During the first semester she studied "Furdam.ental Concepts of Algebra"taught by Dr. E. V. Park, of the N. C. State College fac ulty. Miss Farmer is pres ently taking "Fundamental Concepts of Gaometry" taught by Dr. Arnold Nolstad, also of the State College faculty. The purpose of these courses is to allow teach ers who were trained several years ago, or who were inadequately trained to teach algebra and geometry to catch up with the ne\j ideas of the Space Age. The courses are sponsored by the National Math and Science Foundation, and the In-Service Institute at North, Carolina State College. STUDENTS GET X-Ri\YS All high school students over the age of fourteen had the oppoi-tunity to have a free chest x-ray in November of I96O. This was sponsored by the Nash County Tuberculosis Assoc iation, • The mobile x-ray unit comes to Bailey each year and all eligible people are urged to take . advan tage of this free examd.- nation.
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