George Washington High School - Compass Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Hands — hands strong and muscular—grimy hands working with bricks and mortar to bring to completion the building whose plan shaped itself under the sensitive fingers of an architect—the calloused palms of the riveter—the paint-flecked hands of the painter—the hand of the construction engineer — the hands of all these, and many others, who worked so that the hands of future men may be taught the skill and dexterity which the world so needs today.

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l-R—Marion Fulton. Louis Porter. Vernard Bond. Paul . Lipps, Llewellyn Kendricks, George Giammittorio. Ellen Rammel. 1ST ROW—Bob Shumway. Margo Sellers. Peter Drury, Elizabeth Jones. Russell Kransfelder. Pierce Ellis. Henry Clark. Helen Prisaznick, Robert Marshall. William Whitney. Elwood Mervine. Edyth Cuson. 2ND ROW—Neville Morgan. Doris Padgett. Betsy Litaker, Millicent DeButts. Neil Wolford. Frank Luckett. Each element in a chemical compound plays an individual part in the formation of that compound—careful work is necessary lest the whole experiment be ruined, Each section of the Annual was as carefully combined by the workers as the required parts of a delicate chemistry experiment. Outstanding for their work were: The Business Staff—Its chiefs, John Spittle and Paul Lipps; its adviser, Mr. Lindsey, and the many assistants who helped in the soliciting of ads and the counting of the subscriptions—the school owes them a debt of gratitude. Without the business staff there would be no advertising, no subscriptions,— in short, no annual. desk covered with layouts every afternoon— Edith Cuson, who put the spirit and drive and action of Cadets into words—Peter Drury, who brought the athletic field into the athletic section with his sports talk—Bob Shumway, who prowled around with his magic black box. snapping pictures of unsuspecting people with unholy glee—Helen Prisaznick, Helen Papiroski, Betsy Litaker. Eleanor King, who typed endless copy—Martha Alexander, Frank Luckett, and Russell Kranzfelder, who transferred undergrad life to paper so vividly—Janice Matheny and Elizabeth Jones, whose literary efforts helped fill the pages—Neil Wolford and William Whitney, whose magic pencils beautified the cover and pages of the Annual. The Editorial Staff—with Robert Marshall, who was here, there and everywhere, in all three sections, patient with the slow ones, helpful wherever sqmeone was having a hard' time—Margo Sellers, who put in grueling hours editing club write-ups and could be seen with a pencil behind her ear sitting at a Miss Butzner — rushing around with a handful of copy in one fist and a sheaf of photographs in the other—Miss Rawls proof reading and rewriting none too exquisitely clean papers—Mrs. Varner and her journalism classes, busily collecting Senior write-ups. Making the Layouts Things That Make the Wheels Go 'Round, In Conference

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on r building evolves