Churchland High School - Trucker Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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Happiness is a winning football season. The tension generated by the Marshal Assembly exploded amidst bursts of laughter as Dick Weatherford fumblingly pinned new Chief Marshal Linnea Woodling.

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Individuals Pool Talent For Homecoming Success A modern Prince Charming seeks his shoeless Cinder- ella at the SCA Homecoming Dance. Nearly $300 was netted from this dance for the foreign exchange stu- dent fund. The first holiday of the school year, Octo- ber 11, proved to be a perfect day to celebrate homecoming. It climaxed a week of sleepless nights, flower-making, primping, little study, and other frantic preparations which called on every individual’s talent and time. A homecoming first this year was the afternoo ' n parade through the Churchland business area. Different, too, was the method of choosing the homecoming court. After the football team’s nominations, the faculty narrowed the group down and then popular vote determined the Queen and Maid of Honor. Nearly equal in importance to the home- coming game was the contest with rival Wil- son, held for the first time in the CHS sta- dium. Preceding this was “School Spirit Week” with the JV Apple Bowl on Thursday night and School Color Day and Quiet Day on Friday. The day’s silence ended in a thun- derous pep rally. Besides the football fanfare, experiences of receiving first report cards and choosing new Marshals helped each individual realize his value and the rewards of accomplishing trying tasks. Adorned in frilly bonnets and curlers, Martha Tier- ney and Donna Wells add the final “flowers” to their float. 10 student Life

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Senior Play Provides Means Of Self-expression Linda Holland, prompting Bill Proffitt and Wayne Luehrs, reflects intense interest in the Senior Class Play. Make-up is one of woman’s tools of deception. Here, Linda Lemasters adds “time” to the youth- ful face of Hortense Mitchell. Constant and trying rehearsals marked the weeks of November for many seniors. It was the production of the comedy, “The Mouse That Roared,” that called upon each individ- ual’s talent to express himself and communi- cate. The results were quite pleasing and those involved seemed to have acquired a dra- matic flair. It was a profitable venture, too, for $225 was raised for the Senior Class gift to the school. But this happy mood at CHS changed ab- ruptly to one of sorrow and grief with the assassination of President Kennedy. He was the only recent President with whom the youth of America had identified themselves. The loss of this young leader affected notice- able changes in the too-often superficial man- ner of many individuals. Churchland observed Thanksgiving with a two-day rest that was sparked by the annual Turkey Trot. Then the emphasis swung to the basketball season, which opened victoriously on Friday, December the 13th. Seniors will also remember this as a time of College Boards, so very important in college admit- tance. In such eventful days, many individuals paused to contemplate the mysteries of life and to separate the great from the small. 12 Student Life