John Marshall High School - Marshallite Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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Harrison quickly listens to reassuring dir tions.

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Miss Ronda Dandliker advises junior Becky Booth about steps to take in prepara- tion for college. Self-styled personalities pioneer Jayem A closer look—revealed that there is more to different faces and personalities. Individuality was the characteristic respected and sought after among the mass of students of John Marshall. This proved to be an essential factor in the development of our maturity. Originality made the man. It was a much needed change to discover a high degree of tolerance in both the classroom and school functions. No one can be perfect; one can only aim at being reasonable. Students were reasonable, both in their personal and public affairs. Reasonable schools live in harmony and the students in peace. Subconscious- ly every individual must have desired it so, for as a whole this became true. In school affairs and in the evolution of Jayem from one stage to another, the determining factor was the temperament of the students. The conduct of John Marshall’s affairs and the course of its social and academic develop- ment was eventually based on the ideas which gov- ern the individuals. Marshallites refused to take the entire panorama of reality on its surface value and instead searched for meaning in their lives. This is the man that refuses to be taken in.

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oe r ‘A Sharply cutting a corner, halfback Dennis Coward slips from his opponent’s grasp and runs down field for extra yardage. Driving for perfection, a player practices mercilessly. Gridiron, classroom accents discipline From the beginning impressions ... getting acquainted ... change the first step ... ad- justing ... then learning sharing ideas acknowledgement and respect for other’s ideals involvement the playing field or the classroom .. vigorous training ... long hours of practice ... sweat ... mental and physical ... each Marshallite played a role all roles fitted into a puzzle the mechanism was complete students became ... devoted individuals, excited, vivacious, efferves- cent ... their chanting voluminously ... full of rhythm ... “say it loud, we’re just as proud” “we got soul, now you get some” anything to express the mood pride the key element the mass of students contribute, support ... every- one is important without one the oversoul be- gins to decay ... moral support for team and school chants continue enthusiasm never ending ... then ... frustration and fatigue ... the game became rough the moment expanded ... fear succumbed joy and passion ... but the mech- anism’s precision, effort unaffected ... it con- tinues to grind and screams out with emotion ... 110% ... time grows closer, closer, closer “be calm, be cool” again the voices ... that familiar beat slowly drawing towards its cul- mination point hearts about to burst ... the risk is taken first they observed ... then, called the bluff ... did it come through? ... vic- tory was sweet.