Hampton High School - Krabba Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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Help Uncertain Sophomores Learn of H.H.S. If an interested ])erson returned later in the year, he would find the sophomores as they apprehensively watched the juniors take the tests meant for them next year: STEP, SCAT, PSAT, NMSQT, and SAT. These tests were given so that the student could be IBM-ed into a slot, thus losing his identity. Such wor- ries were not necessary at HHS, where each pupil managed to retain his own ])ersonality. The only jrlacc in which our students became simply one large group was at pep rallies. Other as- semblies provided a needed break in the daily routine. Thus it is e ident that Ham]rton High was a smoothly planned, well- run school in which the students gladly jrarticipated. rs Gail Lynch, Lettie Livergood, Curtis, Bob Martin, and Robert , struggled through SC. T and tests at the beginning of the Brenda Church helped lost sopho- mores, Mike Wilson and Gary Wil- liams, find their new homeroom at Hampton High School. Boys’ and Girls’ State delegates were Curwin Abbott, .Arnold Baker, Nancy Holt, Cheryl Geer, Charles Hill, Bill Richardson, Anne Tweedy, Freddy Tucker, Betsy Noell, Paul Fernald, Doug Haythorne, Jimmy Draley, Bobby Soter, Carole Cope- land, and Bruce Kerr. Delegates not pictured were Carole Goldstein, Pat Hardy, Richard Moore, Raymond Spencer, Skip Jackson.

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Senior Ellen Eubank tried to direct new student, Donna Gandy, through the immense halls of HHS. Ross Dorneman made an impressive introductory speech to the new students during orientation. Upperclassmen To a new student entering Hampton High, this school was a factory of education that produced a finished product once ever ' three years. Those already at HHS made it their job to con incc the sophomores that our school was a warmly personal one, as well as highly academic. Maps were distributed, and the vastness of the building was off-set by a friendly smile. Free Krabba Highlights were presented to all new students. Ronnie Kierns, Wilson Wright, Mike Spenser, and David Smith found the STEP test one of the most difficult assignments of their junior year.

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Settle Poythress studied the list of colleges represented at College Night to decide which one she would attend. Freddy the Crab played an important part at all home games in leading the Crabbers to victory over all their rivals. Red and White Day This was Hampton High School, and the students be- lieved it was the best high school in the nation. When they graduated they would have spent three of the most exciting years of their lives as Crabbers at Hampton. The immense brick building on Queen Street holds many memories for them — some happy, some sad. Frances Lee Scott directed Pat Perry and the rest of her committee in decorating for a school dance.