Gloucester High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Gloucester, VA)

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Overcrowding makes people do strange things. The enormous growth of our school has one source, people. These students had two sources in most cases, parents. These parents came from many places and for many reasons, but their arrival caused G. H. S. to grow along with Gloucester Coun¬ ty. This relation was hardly a coincidence. The continuing growth of Gloucester County is largely due to its acceptance as a residential area. As housing for Newport News becomes scarce, more and more people are coming to Gloucester to live and yet work in Newport News. Gloucester is rapidly becoming a bedroom county. The growth of the county is evidenced by such beautiful landmarks as Grant City, and the Gloucester Point Apartments. So far the main deterent to growth has been the continuance of the toll on the Coleman Bridge. Rumor has it that the toll will come off sometime in the future, which may increase the school ' s problems. Up here I have the advantage. I can see where I ' m going above the crowd . 5

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T Had to sit on a trashcan because you couldn ' t find a seat? How Many Times Have You— Wished the gym had bleachers on both sides? Had to chase Mr. Cox through a crowded parking lot? Had to steal a chair from the teachers table, and come back to find that someone lifted you rolls? 4 Wished that the Cafeteria had traffic lights?

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Advanced Biology The school year now past saw just under twenty-five people take a course offered for the first time here at GHS. That course was advanced Biology. At the beginning of the year, the students were advised not to purchase the approved book for the course, but to purchase the a supplementary text which was more complete and less expensive. So most students followed this advice. Then the course got under way and most students realized that the class was pure comparative anatomy and memorization of names and muscles, bones, blood vessels, nerves and miscellaneous organs. Dissection was often fun, but tests meant memorizing names like buccal cavity, choroid plexers, ventral bar of branchial basket, myocomma, cephalic circle, atvioventricular opening, and many of the hundreds of others. Then somebody in a high place said that we had to buy a textbook or we would not receive credit for the course. Most of them yielded, but a few people suggested a protest in a club meeting. Although the idea was turned down by the club, an unfaithful sponsor was responsible for ordering Mr. Brown to use the book, which was useless to the course. So we studied the difference between static and dynamic science. Meanwhile, people wondered why they had taken the course. Knowledge gained was forgotton rapidly, and most people, having had this experience with Biology, would probably not be overly anxious to take it in college. So is it worth all this to have another credit on your rec¬ ord? Too many students automatically take the next hard course in line, whether or not they really want to. So the class went through frogs, lamprey, eels, rabbits and pro¬ gressed to human anatomy. Some of the class may not have great respect for his teaching methods, but he excells ac the fine art of giving extremely hard tests, which is exactly what he did with human anatomy. The textbook was never used again, and apparently the threat was forgotton for those few rebels who never bought a book. 6 Science Club