Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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Mr. Shelton and Mr. Taylor relax in the teachers’ lounge. Mrs. Gentry, Mr. Kier and Mr. Lynch enjoy a moment of conversation in the cafeteria. Mrs, Kuokka serves Mr. Westbrook, Mr. Kier and Mr. Lynch at the Art Honor Society Tea. The Yorktown student body is very fortunate to have such learned and inspiring men and women on their faculty. They came to Yorktown from near and afar ready to work hard, not only in the task of teaching, but also in helping the student body to organize various vital activities necessary for individual and school growth. Truly, they have started the most important task of fashioning young lives in the development of better character traits, the ability to work with others, the desire for knowledge, and the challenge for achieving higher goals. However, their most important task is to lead the student body in its search for knowledge. For this they are well endowed for they represent a total of forty-six different colleges and universities throughout the United States and Europe. Their combined teaching experience totals three hundred and twenty years. Ably led by their Principal, Mr. W. Ralph Kier, and the administrative staff, the Yorktown faculty give their time in leadership as well as instruction, realizing that what they do will be written indelibly upon their students for all to see and judge. Friends . . . Teachers . . . Advisors 13

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Classes offer new and exciting experiences realization that he must know how to think, write, and discuss in WJ?f new class opens into a specific field of knowledge as teachers lecture, drnl, and assign outside projects. Every student wel- comes a period or study m ike library. Here is an opportunity to broaden the knowledge gamed in class though the use of the fine Lllection of fiction, reference books, biographies, and magazines. Each quarter proceeds the same way with just enough variety so that come out and a new quarter begins, every studen,. makes new resolves to keep up on assigned work take thorough notes, study every night. As the grading riod proce d StIdS e side, Id the whiriwind forgotten assignments begins anew. These are the things which make Hfe at Yorktown enjoyable and every class period and assembly a new and interesting experience. Susan Watson learns the art of balance while working on the rider scale in chemistry class. ft: “S’il vous plait, repetez.” ' s. Hamilton leads her stu- its in a French drill in the guage lab. mry Bradford works on a project in wood shop. ' O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel the dint of pity. A student reads from Julitis Caesar as Mrs. Armstronc’ ? elnw lUfonc as Mrs. Armstrong’s class listens. Carol Merhling adds a dab of color to her impressionistic painting in art class.