Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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In indescribable confusion, students cram into the narrow stairway enroute to classes. Learning continues in cramped classrooms as Mrs. Rae Lantor lectures to her third period Negro history class. Theme 7

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Combing hair can be quite a task during a busy lunch period or a change of classes. Sharing the same facilities, Lavonia Simon and West Fuller go about their separate duties. This one room is used by both the SCA and the Journalism Department. The learning continues. Amidst the cries of an anguished community, pro and con on the matter, the learning continues. While HCSH heaves and sighs under the weight of too many students in its too few facilities, the learning continues. Classes taught in the stadium, on the stage, in makeshift classrooms—the learning continues. Nowhere to sit in the cafeteria, nowhere to walk in the halls, nowhere to teach irj the classroom— learning continues. In a school that was made for 1400 which enrolls 2000, the learning continues. Rubbing shoulders with your neighbor at lunch, stepping on someone ' s foot in the hall, kneeing someone in the back in the classroom— the learning continues. And it has been like that for years. And it gets worse every year. They say there will be 2200 students in here in 73. Where will they put them? Will there be enough education to go around? How will they get it to all those cramped students? Will they inject it with a hypodermic needle? One cannot actually judge its quality, or its quantity, but the learning, nevertheless, continues. 6 Theme

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The whole and the part—a story of society and of a student body. There is everyone—the cafeteria at lunch, a ballgame crowd, the lobby before school. And there is the one—a boy and girl together, a small clique in the corner, cheering groups at ball- games. It is all part of discovering oneself, others and, at times, race. One drifts away from the crowd and finds himself; or he closes himself in around a friend and discovers him; or he blankets himself with members of his own race and finds common grounds, culture and identity. Indications of more emphasis being placed on such social grouping appeared with the formation of the Birthday Club, S.B.D., eight more Negro history classes and many others. There was the whole of HCSH, but there were also its parts. Whether this new shift is causing a lack of school spirit still remains to be seen. Many felt it already has. StucIents arrive as one qROup In quiet contemplation, Tricia Moore withdraws into her own private world. Cheering in their own distinct styles, separate groups of students view a basketball game. 8 Theme