Churchland High School - Trucker Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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AT THEIR CHRIST- mas Concert, band solo- ists Craig Smith, David Snyder, and Syd Carroll employ cup mutes in order to enhance the ef- fect of a “blues” section in “Trumpets Wild.” ACTING AS ONE OF THE CHS MARSHAL hostesses for the Christmas band concert, Nancy Brinldey takes a ticket from a patron as part of her evening’s duties. AS DAVID SNYDER LOOKS ON, KENNY LEBOW AND Richard Cloe make the final adjustment on the recording equipment before the choral concert in December. Student Life 13

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Holiday Season Brings Performer s’ Achievement STUDENT STAGE MANAGERS, JIMMY SAUERBIER and Mike Slezak, go over their light and curtain cues during a change of choral groups at the annual Ghoral Christmas Concert. With December came two choral assemblies and College Boards. The choral department entertained the freshman and sophomores on the third of the month and the juniors and seniors on the tenth. For some 140 students the Churchland cafeteria became an all-day center for the Admissions Testing Pro- gram on December 5. The Welfare Drive, which began in early Decem- ber, offered the first hint of the approaching Christ- mas season. Welfare representatives from each home- room collected food and money in order to help extend the season’s joy to some needy families. The holiday spirit was personified through and accomplished by a spirit of competition and chal- lenge. Most of the homerooms tried to construct a door display which best conveyed the true spirit of Christmas to passers-by. During the week before the closing of school, student stage and recording technicians and the CHS Marshals added their services to the skills of the choral groups and the CHS Band in making both of their concerts successes. The only reward for weeks of persistent practice was the intangible achievement which a performer feels when his audi- ence applauds him and thus lets him know that his efforts are not in vain. RUSHING TO MEET the deadline for the Christmas door decora- tion contest, Jenny Creek- more and Rita Cox cut out the background design for the door of Mrs. Davis, who lends moral support for this annual affair. 12 Student Life

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Mid-winter Activities Add To Lively Pace At CHS “GLADYS GROSS,” GHARAGTERIZED BY Ann Hagert, “lights up” in the girls’ basement between classes. This scene is from the Pierette Glub skit on school etiquette. CHS students had just enough time to return from Christmas vacation and to settle dovra in the routine of daily school life when mid-term exams provided another break. As the days of January and the first semester became memories, the second semester brought new challenges and achivements. Signs of early anticipation rose among some seniors as February brought the first activities leading up to graduation. Senior room representatives measured the members of their homerooms for caps and gowns and took orders for calling cards and annoimcements. Members of the Senior Class play cast performed the prologue of their production for juniors and seniors at an assembly. It served as an inducement for the student body to see the play which was held on February 4 and 6 amid an air of King Arthiur’s England. Later in February a second junior-senior assembly was held. The Pierette Club put on a skit in which they satirized the school eitquette of some members of the student body. During the same asembly a vic- tory flag was presented to Chiu ' chland by the mem- bers of the SCA. With this, the school thus had an additional instrument through which individual and team achievement could be recognized. ON BEHALF OF THE student body, Mr. Beck accepts GH’s first victory flag from Joe Braintwain and Bill Spain at a February assembly. The flag, to be flown for all sports and scholastic victories and achieve- ments, was presented to the school by the SCA. 14 Student Life