Albemarle High School - Peer Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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ew and interesting activities.. College Day, Dean Hunt talks to a group of interested about the College of William and Mary. ujarman and Sarah Atkeison put the finishing touches Friendship Tree which The Peer staff is sponsoring will gioe to Mr. Cale during the Christmas Assembly. r-NH' MDR SA Mrs, Piggott, are you trying to sell Christmas decorations to Santa Claus?? DeShazo directs the Concert Choir in a Christmas Concert. A highlight of the ioint band and chorus Christmas Concert is the arrival of . . . Santa Claus! V Peter Ossina and Pat Walker add their decorations to the Christmas tree which the members of the art classes are mak- ing, one of several Christmas trees which brighten the rooms of AHS during the Christmas season. W. C. Fields, Mr. Busse, Bo Powell, Billy Ward, and lim Stork have a mock FFA meeting in an assembly commemorat- ing National FFA Week.

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On Band and Chorus Day students come from all over Virginia to play and sing during half-time activities at the University of Virginia football game. The AHS band is especially honored this year by being asked to accompany the combined choruses. 4' The original of this portrait of Dr. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill , the first explorer of Cumberlandfs Gap, is owned by his descendant, Fontaine Maury Watson of Logan , which is part of the original Castle Hill Estate. A . . T .A .A 5 I W h :,- fl 1 . .. ,. , i . V y .1'. . ,., it 2 I K As the inclement winter weather arrives, the buses are fre4 quently late. Charles Strauss, and John Mitchish sign in at the familar office counter. with Christmas come ma Ynffx . , .X , -Q. Nr 1 Aa From repairing books to finding detailed sta- tistics, Mrs. Walton, librarian, is an invaluable help to everyone at AHS. Basketball players Bob Albee, Iohn Cronk, Butch Harlow, and Rockwood are introduced to the student body as Coach Null git pep talk at a pep rally.

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Iesse Lynn and Linda Christensen, Most In- tellectual, and Butch Harlow and Patsy Davis, Best All-Round. Iesse and Butch seem to be trying to explain the use of some old-fashioned household appliances to Linda and Patsy. The brass candlestick, the eighteenth century pine Tavem table, the china soup toureen, and the bread tray can he seen at Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Iefferson. Iesse's and Linda's warm personalities relieve the se'iousness of their excellent scholastic abili- ties and extensive general knowledge. Good grades, sparkling personalities, and active school spirit emphasize the best all-round qualities in Butch and Patsy. Superlafives visl Dwight Andrews and Barbara Iannan, Most Likely to Succeed, and Watts Maupin and Tommy Faulcnner, Most Popular, stand on the upper level of the University of Virginia Rotunda. The four are over-looking the grounds where such diverse geniuses as Edgar Allan Poe and Woodrow Wil- son, among others, have walked. The University was founded in 1819, the year Spain seceded Florida to the United States, by Thomas Jefferson and the rotunda was the first permanent building on one of Americais truly beautiful campuses. The structure, which was designed by Mr. jef- ferson himself, was burned in a tragic fire in 1895 but was restored as nearly as possible to the original plans.