Hampton Roads Academy - Log Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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HEADMASTER’S MESSAGE By the time you read this, much of your inevitable concern with specific academic and extracurricular responsibilities here will have evaporated into lofty and hopefully pleasant anticipation of the new and different experiences awaiting you as graduates. Thus, the theme of this yearbook — horizons- -is a fitting symbol of what we hope will be your new concerns. In spite of our preoccupation with homework, examinations, and various other hurdles, we hope that you have all gained much more than mere academic preparation for the year immediately ahead. We hope that you have been given some vision of the various horizons you will search, whether they be academic, cultural, economic, or social. It is important to us and to you that you are able to do more than follow specific directions and to parrot back memorized informa- tion. Unless you are able to organize and direct your own efforts — and because you want to, not because you are forced by parent or teacher — our efforts will have been to large measure wasted. As a class you have distinguished yourselves by your willingness to look beyond yourself and your own affairs. It may be that you have contributed more than any other graduating class to date to the morals and overall vitality of your school. We are all grateful for your many endeavors to help younger students feel at home here in addition to the contributions you have made to extracurricular activities in athletics, music, and student government. While com- parisons between different classes are always odious, we feel that you have epitomized a spirit of unselfish service that will bring you credit and serve others as an inspiration. We hope that you will continue to reach for new horizons--in your own way and your own time. The world today, which at times seems to place impossible demands upon us, requires a commitment to society. The significant contribution of one person cannot be standardized, because it is clearly a function of many personal attributes, but what is important is that the purpose of one ' s life be partly dedicated to making some contribution. No matter how troubled the world may be, there are always goals for the horizon-seeker. As Sophocles declares in ANTIGONE Wo nders are many, and none is more more wonderful than man. Thomas Read

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A man ... of ideas, sparkling intellect, varied talents . . . A man . . . doctor, administrator, archeologist, friend . . . A man . . . who buoyed Hampton Roads Academy by his constant and unselfish care and con- cern . . . A man . . . whose knowledge of people and the community he served was invaluable . . . A man . . . who placed his absolute faith in the ideal of Hampton Roads Academy . . . To this man ... we the students of Hampton Roads Academy dedicate the 1966 LOG: DR. EDWARD VALENTINE SIEGEL, III

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FACULTY 5