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By ROBIN COOPER
and RUSTY SETTLE
Mr. Janies Wood has been teaching biology at Rappahannock County High School for five years. He chose Rappahannock because his wife’s parents moved out here the same year that he did and it made visiting more convenient.
He says he actually enjoys teaching the wild students of today and selected teaching as a profession because he thought he could do as good a job of teaching as the teachers he had heard of. I think it is safe to say that most students consider Mr. Wood to be a good teacher. .i«k»ddiii<HL tOv biology, he is mmlifted* tn, f erh.jrhwinry and pre-algebra.
We also discovered that Mr. Wood has some musical talent and played the organ at a church for four years before he began teaching school. He felt that playing the church organ was not what he wanted to make his living doing. He can also play the French horn.
His present interest is the computer that we have at the high school, which he says is a big help in printing tests. He would like to program the computer to do population studies and feels it would be helpful in studying evolution, the formation of mountains and how different species evolved. He would also like to use it as a simulated organ ism to see how it would react to a given environment. Mr. Wood said that a class in computer science would be nice, but these things take time and money.
He presently uses his spare time working on his house, a passive solar house. Though it will not be completed for five years, it will be livable this summer. Many of the windows face southeast for solar heating. Mr. Wood maintains that low iron glass is best for distributing heat, but very expensive, and that fiberglass is good but you
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