York High School - Falcon Yearbook (Yorktown, VA)

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Decade at York — for Building Citizens After ten years only four teachers remain at York from those who were here when the school opened: Mr. Lewis Simpson, Mrs. Helen Holben. Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, Mrs. Thelma Hansford. Nancy Kara is congratulated for winning a scholarship on Class Day. Molly Laird, class chaplain, held the devotions on Senior Class Day. 7

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FOREWORD 1964 is York High School’s tenth birthday. During the ten years, many graduates have passed through York’s portals, going out to make a place and a name for themselves in the world beyond. There has been almost a sameness in all graduating classes, as each from the first on has maintained the high standards and ideals that York instills in all her graduates. The members of each senior class have all left their imprint, too, upon the life at York, whether the class had forty members — as the first one did — or two hundred — as the class of ’64 does. Through the years they have initiated and fashioned the activities that now have become a pattern at York, for it is the senior class in any school that leads the way. Thus, the 1964 Falcon staff has tried to picture the happenings at York which have become traditional by showing you this the tenth year. Yet while each year and each class may seem the same, they can not be. There are always some events which make a particular time more distinctive than other times. Therefore, as yo.u enjoy the 1964 FALCON, it is the hope of the staff that you will see York’s tradition, as well as York’s pres- ent, and that you will recall with fondness those who, while preparing to leave York, were also making their footprints upon the sands of time. 6

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A Tradition at York Has Been the Emphasis The University of Virginia School of Engi- neering and Applied Science sponsored the first Junior Science, Humanities, and Engineering Symposium for outstanding science students on April 16 of this year. Nancy Kara, the valedic- torian of the Senior class, was chosen to repre- sent York in Charlottesville. Because her project on comparative intelligence tests was so out- standing, Nancy was selected as a student speak- er and finalist. As a finalist, Nancy was nomi- nated to attend the Second National U. S. Army Junior Science and Humanities Sympos- ium, which was held at Fort Leslie J. McNair, Washington, D. C., on April 22-24, 1964. Here, along with top science students from fifty states, Nancy attended a series of lectures and panel discussions. For representing York so well in this and other science projects, Nancy was chosen as the recipient of the York High Senior Science Award for outstanding work in science. Each year the DAR awards a citi- zenship award to a senior girl. The 1964 winner was Peggy Diehl, se- lected by faculty and classmates. The faculty of York High also ea ' ch year selects the best all-around boy and girl in the senior class to have their names engraved on plaques at the school. Doug Kanney and Ann Strong were the ’64 winners. Doug also won the Richard Bryant Me- morial Award. Doug Kanney Ann Strong Peggy Diehl 8