I C Norcom High School - Greyhound Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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Para-Professional Students Contribute to Community | Thirty young men and women were enrolled in Norcom’s Para-Professional Career Study in 1973. These students were preparing themselves to teach recreation, physical education, or to coach. Besides covering sports and activities that are usually presented in physical education classes, these students also covered fishing, archery, camping, water skiing, and scuba. Mrs. Coffey, Mr. Banks, Mr. Schwab, and Mrs. Reed shared teaching responsibilities in this area. The community benefited from this new program. Mt. Hermon and Truxton schools had the services of Para-Professional students seeking on-the-job training. Para-Professional students are able to help others as they learn. 24

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How to Make Machines Your Slave — Data Processing Do machines fascinate you? Have you ever been amazed at what a computer can do? Data Processing may be the place for you. Students in this department have access to adding machines, printing calculators, keypunch machines, sorters, 402 accounting machines, bookkeeping machines, an NCR computer. The stu- dent learns to process data by manual, mechanical, punch-card, and computer methods. Seventeen students were enrolled in Data Processing this year. Mrs. Lynette Whitley was the instructor. She briefly outlined a few of the requirements for the course. The student should have taken typing and should pass certain IBM aptitude tests. The concentration of these Data Processing students is obvious. 23

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Journalism Students Study as Well as Produce Students interested in studying Journalism should have a good English background. The Journalism Ca- reer Study will eventually include three one-year courses. In the first two years, writing practice will be emphasized. The third year will include an intern program that will place students in local newspaper offices and broadcasting studios. Mr. Jim Raper, a writer for a local newspaper, is the Journalism instructor and the newspaper advisor. One of the Journalism Class’s major activities is producing the school newspaper. The Gazette. The Editor- in-Chief is Kerry Bedsworth; the Associate Editor is Barbara Bailey. The other Journalism students and Cazette members are Nikki Levin, Jackie Mollenauer, Julie Kossler, Karen Hardy, Christi Ford, Laurence Wilson, Horace Wade, David Robinson, Timothy Branch, Sherri Hurdle, Teresa Adams, and Bobby Watson. 25