Hampton High School - Krabba Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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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.

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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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Managers David Vohringer and John Robins, along with Allen Baxter, came to the aid of injured player, Charlie Hill. Charlie recovered from his agony to re-enter the game and help lead the team to victory. College Night High-Light Fall Season Also they remembered all of those surprise quizzes that the teachers used to wake everyone up on Monday mornings. And one could never forget the broken burrette in Chemistry or the lost Eng- lish book. Then there was the time that people were sent home to return forgotten Federal Forms. Nevertheless all of these happenings were not all for the bad. At least they can laugh when they look back on them. All in all the rich experiences they gained while students at Hampton High School contributed much to the development of both our minds and our personalities. As students, they were greatly indebted to their teachers and fellow students, who serving as a part of the school gave them much to strive for in the future and much to re- member from their youth. Bob Creasman and Sherry Smith gazed mourn- fully at the flag at half-mast during the sorrow- fill month nf Dprpmh(= r