Covington High School - Puffs and Patches Yearbook (Covington, VA)

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Familiar features lose identity. A porch crumbles, a tree comes down. The landscape changes to prepare for the future. Trucks and steam shovels dominate the scene. And mud. Steel girders, bricks, cinder blocks, lumber, workers in helmets with rivets and nails: symbols of progress. And mud. 8

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The beginning of a new year finds several new faculty mem- Mrs. Ives, and Miss Payne indicate interest by their smiles bers who are receiving schedules, class records, and last and intent expressions, minute instruc tions from Mr. Heretick. Mr. Jones, Mr. Rose, Covington High has always been a builder of scholarship, character and individualism. Among its graduates are num- bered lawyers and firemen, ministers and statesmen, doctors and teachers, armed forces colonels and sergeants — as well as a big-league baseball star. And as the 1963 school year begins, the potential business and professional men and women of tomorrow note with enthusiasm important changes in their school. New growth is everywhere. New faces are noticed among the freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors and, for the first time since the initiation of the 12 year system, C.H.S. has four full classes of young people. The faculty also is growing. We find new teachers in the English, math, and social studies departments. The curriculum has grown with the addition of an industrial arts program. The football team wins game after game, their efforts culminating in the winning of the Blue Ridge District champ- ionship. And, in proportion to their team ' s prowess, the spectators display their spirit in the loudest and most exu- berant of voices. It is a year of growth and progress. A year for meeting new friends among the faculty and students. A year for cheering a great football team on to victory. With the well- integrated program of classes and activities, Covington High School continues as the builder of future teachers and scien- tists, of industrialists and secretaries, AND NOW . . . Mechanical drawing is one of the new classes this year. John Casstevens and Jerry Craft freely offer their advice, as John Hall completes his bracket.

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Completed at lost, the addition houses o new gym os well os classrooms for mechanical drawing, home economics, science and business. During the early spring of 1962, the grounds and surrounding buildings of Covington High School began taking on a new look. Sidewalks were dis- lodged, trees uprooted and the first spring rains made a veritable duck ' s paradise between the main building and the Home Economics building. Students soon gained agility in leaping puddles and avoiding the deep bogs which developed from driving bulldozers and cement trucks through the mud. Keen interest in the progress of the construction work was shown by dawdling students whose side- walk superintending caused an increase in tardi- ness to classes. The halls were invaded by workmen carrying sledge hammers and pneumatic drills. Old walls and windows disappeared to make way for new walls, new windows, new doors. When school was dismissed for the summer vacation, the brick structure of the addition was just beginning to take form. In September C.H.S. students thronged back, eager to view the changes wrought during their absence. Building materials littered the halls. As they had learned to avoid mudholes, students as rapidly learned to dodge ladders and paint buckets, accepting them as necessary and part of their new environment. Soon there were fewer workmen. Sawdust was cleared from the halls for the last time and rou- tines were blissfully uninterrupted. The new build- ing was finished. And what a building! The new lab equipment, the bright modern gym, the new classrooms all blossomed forth in unprecedented glory. Bulldozers, mudholes, paint and varnish smells and the inconveniences were quickly for- gotten as students began using the new facilities. It took a long time, but the new addition was com- plete. And the verdict? — It was worth waiting for. 9