Andrew Lewis High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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EFFECTIVE RELATIONS STRENGTHENED . . . as students and teachers found that they could learn from one another. It was much easier for the faculty and students alike to let down their bar¬ riers and relate to the other side. Once opposing views were in the open, sound judgement and coopera¬ tion rendered possible solutions. 14

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He strides down the halls attached to a record-player or a film projector stopping to get a student ' s opinion of a recent class discussion or just to smile, wave, and hurry on. He special¬ izes in telling not so funny twenty- year old jokes over and over until they actually become funny. And if anyone speaks of religion, he expounds on Plato. Christmas brings out the Scrooge” in him as he answers every greeting with Bah, Humbug!”, and finds time in every class to explain why Christmas should be done away with. His good-natured affection is returned by the students; they line up by his desk during his free minutes, and with ruffled hair and coat slung across the back of his chair he speaks to a worried English student and gives encourage¬ ment to a young poet. How do you really describe a man who lives by Aristotle, swears by Plato, contemplates Huxley, and adores Egyp¬ tian and Classical art all at the same time? Perhaps the best way to describe one of the true humanitarians among us is to say he is a man of the times . . . past . . . present . . . and future The Yearbook Staff takes great pride in dedicating the 1972 PIONEER to Mr. Carl Colley