Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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Students serve faculty and parents at the Art Honor Society tea. Mr. Vanderbilt observes the stage crew work the complicated lighting system backstage. “You say you have fifty cents to spend foolishly?” Mary Rollings helps two stu- dents dispose of their money at the school store.

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Too little time to eat! The short, twenty-five minute lunch period is the center of activity for every student s day. It is all too brief a-time for eating a hasty lunch, conversing with friends, and cramming for afternoon tests. A typical noon-time picture is a student crammed in between piles of books with a set of history notes in one hand and a hamburger in the other telling his neighbor what happened at the basketball game the night before. The lunch period begins with a rush! The lines that quickly form give the appearance that there would be only enough food for the first dozen students who present themselves in the Yorktown kitchen On the contrary, Mrs. Margaret Fadley, Cafeteria Manager, and her eight ladies prepare 140 sandwiches and set out 900 half-pints of milk every day, in addition to the hundreds of plate lunches prepared each week. The rush doesn’t end with the lunch line. After the student secures his food, there is still the problem of finding a seat, eating his lunch, and returning his tray in the few remaining minutes of the lunch period. But even when this is done, the student often leaves the cafeteria think- ing, “Twenty-five minutes just isn’t enough time to eat!” LEFT: “Every man for himself” Ludwig Carrera, Jim Francis, Doug Smarr, Riley Carter, and Cliff Lynch are steady patrons of the plate lunch specialty. Specialty of the house, boys— fried hash!” Students file through the plate lunch line. The transition from the peace of the classroom to frustrated bedlam is made by Ann Hall and Bryan Mc- Ghee as they enter the cafteria. The thundering herd awaits its turn for good home cooking, Good to the last drop, Sabra Hatfield finishes her lunch.

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Activities and clubs lighten Pizza sales enrich club tronsurics and feed hunRi y stomachs. The Student Council Dooksloie provides Patsy Smitli and John Suter with the best in rcadinR matter. the day Penny Dikeman demonstrates her tennis form in after-school intramurals. Rick Gorrell, Randy Stark and Karen Kuntz work with Mr. Mullins to increase their speed- reading skills. On the first day of school this year many clubs were already formed and active. This was largely due to the efforts of Yorktown’s student body during the latter half of the last school term and the summer vaca- tion. Ten clubs were officially recognized by the school at an assembly held October 20, 1960, for chartering the clubs. Charters were given for a period of one year, after which time the club reported to the Activities Committee of the Student Council to inform the school of the club’s yearly progress. The Constitution of the club must agree with the Constitution of the Student Council and the club must be open to all students. The clubs can be broken down into several areas of interest. Among these are: clubs devoted to service within the community; clubs which are formed by students in a field in which they plan to have a career; clubs which are devoted to various facets of physical education; and honor societies comprised of outstanding students in a given subject. As the year has progressed the number of clubs and activities has in- creased. At the end of the school year a total of seventeen clubs and thirty-five activities had been organized for the benefit of Yorktown students.