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

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A MEASURE OF A SCHOOL IS ITS PLACE STUDENT LIFE IS A CHANCE The 1966 COMPASS Staff thought that it was high time they took notice of that particular aspect of school and the school year that we call Student Life. It is the nature of Student Life that it is undcfinable. It is found wherever one finds students. It is often overlooked, but school would not lx the same without it. It is happiness, sadness, pride, every conceivable feeling and emotion. It is even.- imaginable act and every imaginable person. It is that one quantity that transforms school from brick and steel into the moving, changing, bustling institution that it is. It is nothing and it is everything. It is to be appreciated. A HANDY TELEPHONE, a bit of nourishment, a soft nig and her copy of the COMPASS seem to provide Debby Paul with a reasonable facsimile of paradise on earth. TO LEARN . .. TO RELAX . .. TO STUDY . . . IF THERE IS much in this school that is trite or commonplace, there is far more that holds the unhindered power to fascinate and enthrall. John Conner is not the first to find that power. TO STRETCH . . . JOHN SPEER HAS sought out the tomb-like silence of the Lindsey Auditorium to study, confident that Ik will soon be able to face his teachers with a smile, and the right answers. WE MAY NEVER wholly understand the science of knuckle-cracking, but we hold high hopes that Al Altizcr will lx able to explain it to us. 26

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TIME is a prime element in the life of all GW students. With graduation, Seniors can look back with pride at the TIME given toward that final climax of their high school careers. Juniors recall the TIME spent in anticipation of the arrival of their class rings. Sophomores can remember the effort spent creating better dances. Certainly, we all remember how quickly the hours passed during our first days as Freshmen. C L A S S E S 25

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IN THE LIVES OF THOSE WHO ATTEND IT TO ARRIVE, RAIN . . . DEBORAH THOMAS HAS struggled through the ceaseless drizzle and the pre-dawn darkness of an autumn morning to face the daily routine with spirits, though little else, undampened. TENSION RUNS HIGH as Lani Novak, heroine of the German Club Play, pleads with the stem hurgomeister. Scooter Husbands, to be permitted to many the man she loves. TO ACT . . . AND TO ACHIEVE. OR SHINE . . . CLEAR WEATHER BRINGS Athol Mellot, one of GW’s growing family of scooter jockies, careening into the parking lot. AUSTIN SCHMIDT JOINS the long lists of GW’s excellent as Mr. Lloyd recognizes his Cross Country participation in a school where achievement is at no premium. 27