JEB Stuart High School - Sabre Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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OPENING □ 6 Progression. Did Rome look like this when it fell? . . . through size This year the size of our building was doubled. A larger cafeteria was built and eventually, we got a new gym. The new wing gave us some much needed room although we found that the halls had not widened and that the risk of being trampled had not diminished. For once, even upperclassmen experienced that uniquely freshman feeling of being lost. There were a few minor difficulties, as there always are: A few of us still froze or melted in the quonset huts while more of us began to bemoan the unpredictable heating in the new wing; voices of protests were raised when, after a month and a half of school, some of the new-wing homerooms still pledged allegiance to non-existant flags. However, for the most part, the year ran smoothly. And in the midst of these petty disturbances most of us managed to learn a little about something besides construction.

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5 □ We started out the year with many happy memories and a few vague misgivings. Summertime, “when the living is easy,” was gone: the next nine and a half months were to be devoted to football games, clubs, dances, assemblies, parties and to jobs, churches, and communities. Y ear of Growth As young Americans we took strides in every direction: our student body grew in number: our school building grew in size, and we, the students, grew in understanding—learning that we must give a little to life even when we don’t expect to receive in return. This has been a year of growth and we are the people who grew. On the following pages the Sabre staff hopes to answer some of the questions that we all ask: who and when, but more importantly, how and OPENING

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7 □ “Blessed is the man who has found his work.” OPENING