Chapel Hill High School - Hill Life Yearbook (Chapel Hill, NC)

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The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning ' s altar vanish from the plain . El lery Channing 14

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Dr. Thompson puzzles over equipment for the new high school . All Eyes Turn Toward Facilities of 1966 Planning the construction of our future high school has occupied the majority of Superintendent Howard Thompson ' s time during his third year as chief adminis- trator for Chapel Hill CitySchools. Schedu led for completion in the summer of 1 966, the spacious new school, which is patterned after Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro, will have an eighty acre campus and a capacity for 1200 students. Last fa 1 1 stra ins of H e II o Howard hera Ided Dr . Thompson at a banquet held in his honor by the local unit of NECA and CTA . Furthermore, even though he owes his sou I to the whole school board, m e I o d i o u s members of our CHHS faculty considered him worthy of their crooning . Voted Tarheel of the Week in November for her de- voted service to CHHS, our principal Miss May Marshbanks is the only woman to serve asa publ ic high school principal in North Carolina . Aside from her regu lar duties in direct- ing ouradministration, she frequently dons her green coat and squishy shoes to trudge up to CHHS in order to pep up the furnace. She is also eagerly looking forward to a wider field of opportunities for her c h i I d r e n in our future school . As part of her job. Miss Marshbanks reviews transcripts for seniors ' appl ications to college. 16