Crewe High School - Railroader Yearbook (Crewe, VA)

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Just as progress in railroading has caused a change from wood and coal-burning steam locomotives to oil-burning deisels, so growth in population, and changes in educational re¬ quirements and standards have caused admini¬ strative personnel to more than triple in the fifty-year period, andtheirduties to be multi¬ plied. In early years, the principal was both a teacher ana administrator. Mr. R.P. Via, our present principal, finds his day entirely taken up with administrative duties. Inasmuch as present day personnel is responsible for the stu¬ dent from the time he leaves home until he re¬ turns from school, faculty members, too, must perform many duties other than teaching. Administration 17

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Physical Education Has Grown From “Recess” To An Organized, Directed Activity Grade school girls, caught swinging their hula-hoops, show what physical education used to be--a recess or game period. Senior, Larry E d d i n s, works with grade schoolboys in organized play. Girls are required to dress for class and must participate in well-planned activity. Sixth period Phys. Ed. girls enjoy Boys are willing participants in any kind of a ball basketball, too. game, even pre-season basketball, played out of doors in the broiling sun. 16

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Jhe School Boand, Administration, and Jaculty Lead the Waif The Nottoway County School Board includes: Mrs. Helen G. Wilson; Mr. H. L. Blanton, Superinten¬ dent; Mr. Garland Jones, Chairman; Mr. Taylor Jenkins; and Mr. Billy Gravatt and Mrs. Edith Bolling, Clerk, not shown. H. L. BLANTON Hampden-Sydney University of Virginia Superintendent MISS LILLIE TUCKER Madison College Visiting Teacher ROBERT P. VIA Lincoln Memorial University Graduate work at VPI Radford, M. Sc. in Ed. from Longwood Principal MRS, MARY K. CARY Office Secretary 18