Annandale High School - Antenna Yearbook (Annandale, VA)

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Mr. and Mrs. Gareth M. Neville were not fully aware of the con- tribution they had made on that day, October 26,1951, when Fair- fax County purchased from them twenty-two acres on Ravensworth Road for 322,196.50 A pooling of Fairfax County provisions and Federal allocations provided a sum total of iB1,661,418.64 to con- struct what was to become, without qualm, a leader of high schools. This was Annandale. On a cool September morning in 1954 the doors of Fairfax County's fifth and mostmodern high school were opened and students formerly of Fairfax and Mt. Vernon High Schools entered somewhat hesitantly but many with a vision of a high school which would in years to come be an example of excellence. From the start it was evident that the crowded conditions would seriously impede the development of A.H.S. and on December 2, 1954 plans were made with the Wayne Construction Co. to erect a twelve room addition. Upon completion, Annandale was fully operational. Time passed, however, and A.H.S. could not sit back on' what it had. The school had to grow. Throughout the years additions were constructed, a second library, more classrooms, then offices, and still a newer library. However, Annandale grew in more than one manner. After the Class of '57, A.H.S. never had another losing football season, and a later It's Academic team established an all- time scoring record for area schools. The vision of excellence which those first students carried with them was being fulfilled. But times continued lo change and we had to work to stay on top. New methods of supplementary enrichment for classrooms were provided for all teachers. Formats of education were improved and varied, and in 1966 thirty classrooms, the present library and a new cafeteria were included on the already enormous list of im- provements and Annandaleis student capacity rose above the 2000 mark. The most recent additions were the M and R Shop and the .Media Center. ' Annandale, now the oldest Fairfax County school on its original site, did not want only structural improvements, however, and the student bodies and faculty grew and changed with the structure. Students have become ever increasingly involved with the issues of governing their own school and the advent of a new and innovative era of concern has risen into sight. It is not spoken of and little dis- course pertains to it, but the pulsation of the new spirit is fell every school day and the response and cognizance is consistent and strong. Annandale, with its heritage of two decades of service to the com- munity, can look hack and be proud of the goals it has attained. And yet, even now, the old Alma Mater can not, must not, sit still on its laurels. The very school can feel within itself the life-giving strength drawn from growth and knows that without growth perish it will and that quickly. For time is still passing, it halts and waits for no one. We must march with it, to whatever rhythm we choose, but with it we must march. 0