Henrico High School - Totem Pole Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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J ake’ Note. Freshmen pay atte as eir English class while a cles gives an oral report. NEW FACES You’ve got to start somewhere, so why not as a Freshman? New faces are seen everywhere in the fall as ninth graders are oriented to high school life. It takes a few weeks for freshmen to be accepted in leadership roles in classes, clubs and elsewhere on campus. By spring, freshmen have completely adjusted and are no longer the new kids on the block. Freshmen 93

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Twenty. years meant different things to different people. To the teachers who had been at Henrico since its opening, it meant thousands of students and millions of grad- ed papers. The campus, altered and added to over the years, had seen changes in numbers of students enrolled each year. During the twenty years, the curriculum had been through a hundred additions, and revisions, like the addition of driver’s educa- tion and co-ed gym classes. Some classes had to be dropped because of a lack of in- terest and others because of new trends in education and the back-to-the-basics movement. | But despite the addition of new classes or the deletion of old ones, traditions remained in the curriculum. The flurry in the library during research paper time, the buzzing of saws in a woodworking class, the heated iscussions of mock trials in government lasses, and the sound of the bass drums emitting from the band room were welcome ins that some spiige never changed. 1 cram tor ani” fever, most real- nportance of buckling down to Exams were cancelled, but axation of academic stand- nl inued to bone up for the an sophomores began a concen- d ulary study to prepare for the walking the last mile tion, hit the books with ination and purpose. The udents singled out for $s was proof that students in pursuit of academic “HENRICO WARRIORS | ACADEMICS | mune ARES cos RMA LEE See nnat od 95