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Tracks of the Richwood Tiger
Classrooms

Richwood High School's classrooms were painted in two shades of institutional green: light above, medium below.

The large windows had shades that could be adjusted to keep out the sun’s glare. Some rooms also had heavy blackout shades so that they could be darkened for showing 16mm films. So did the gymnasium/auditorium.

1963, page 83

Many rooms featured iron-framed wooden seats and desks, most of them including small shelves and old-fashioned inkwells (receptacles for bottles of ink). They were attached to runners to form long rows, with narrow aisles separating each student from those to his left and right. The room above is, I believe, the largest of six classrooms on the second floor, designated as the Study Hall.

PET PEEVES: TOM THOMAS
It was probably at the first meeting of Mrs. Cochran's class in public speaking when 16 of us students took turns introducing ourselves. I made notations of our future plans, favorite things, and pet peeves, many of which you'll find sprinkled among these pictures. My biggest complaint? Noise in Study Hall.

According to one of my notebooks, as a senior I was assigned to Study Hall in the first or second period in the morning. I was also there three days a week in the sixth period, immediately after lunch. On Tuesday and Thursday I sat in the third row from the windows, the fourth desk from the front. On Friday I was in the row adjacent to the interior wall, the second desk from the back. But on Monday and Wednesday my sixth period was spent in the physics lab.

Also on the second floor were Rooms 1 through 5. At least some of them had more modern all-wood individual chairs with writing surfaces attached, as seen below.

1964, page 29

The third floor included Room 6, Room 7, the Music Room, the Commerce & Typing Room, and the Science Laboratory.

1965, page 82

At least one teacher still conducted his classes the old-fashioned way.

Here Ray Griffith has called on a General Math student to stand beside his desk and recite to the instructor.

1965, page 81

But more often, when a student was asked to deliver a report he came to the front of the room and addressed his classmates.

Here the instructor, Frank Zirbel, looks on as Kelly Drake delivers a report, apparently about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

PET PEEVES: CARL MARTIN
Chewing gum under seats

PET PEEVES: DAN RUSH
My alarm clock

1965, page 81

Of course, the teachers did most of the talking. John Hoffman talked about American History (a calendar of Presidents is on the bulletin board), Economics, Psychology, and Geography.

1965, page 83

Mary Cahill also taught American History, along with Sophomore English, General Business, and Social Studies. She wrote a lot on the blackboard.

1965, page 81

And for World History, Phyliss Dillion sometimes moved the desks into other arrangements.

I remember once we gathered our seats into small groups of four or five to discuss a report, which happened to be on the hierarchical organization of government in Nazi Germany. But I kept getting distracted by the sight of an attractive girl in a sweater, part of another group across the room, so I had to turn my desk in a different direction.

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