McComb High School - Camellian Yearbook (McComb, MS)

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Homework ... hard work... Maureen Myers passes out dictionaries to Alice Griffin, Martha and Rosemary Quin to us2 in working up their vocabulary sheets. Betty Brister stops work on her assignment to talk with Bill Crews. “Have you found anything on they look through issues of Guide. Gatlin, your subject?” David Causey asks Jimmy Cheatham as the Readers’ 14 “For tomerrow, please read- - - .” This fa- miliar announcement may be heard in English, science, or almost any class. Maybe it’s a string cf math problems, a lab report, or a task in bookkeeping. Another time it’s a memorization assignment—a list of new French words, a group of shorthand symbols, or a poem by Shake- speare. Math problems change, but homework goes on. Sometimes we balk at the heavy as- signment—but then we realize that homework gives an individual an opportunity to work at his own pace; it helps cover necessary educa- tional ground; and it aids in gaining essential self discipline and study habits. Comic page claims the attention of Emily Williams and Sylvia Nelson when they really should be look- ing for current events.

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After the Christmas assembly program, George Burris, Judy Eth- eridge, and Winnie Simpson rush to the Glee Club room to re- move and hang their robes. Steve Bond and Ronnie Boone read the newspaper in search of interesting items to use in their history reports. 13 Advice and consent from Mr. Reeves to Todd Carlisle, Larry Singleton, and Ken Nelson. Football manager Ward James takes care of injured Flip Weinberg, but nothing matters to that worried Tiger except what happens next on the field.

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Don Welch, Larry Thompson, Ronnie Boone, and Lockwood Hoots provide themselves with pencils for home- work from the Student Council pen- cil vendor. Mechanical drawing students prepare to work on assigned problem—Pat Barrett, Paul Van, Floyd Netterville, Earl Hayslip, F. M. Ditto. Senior comp students join forces to study for a Readers’ Digest test—Virginia Hart, Norene Hay, Linda Sanders, Cam Nichols. 15