McComb High School - Camellian Yearbook (McComb, MS)

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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

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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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Bookkeeping students, are tied up in all kinds of paper work— Joyce McKenny, Nic Mancuso, Larry Reed, Kenneth Howell, Jimmy Frazier, Phyllis Stowers, Mary Ann McCool. Paper work .. . slow work... Ken Nelson, Dan Magruder, and Ward James listen in while Mrs: Quin gives Jerry Abdalla instructions for his comp assignment. “Write a THEME!” “TERM PAPERS are due next week!’—statements that make a student’s brain quiver. However, writing a 350 word theme in tess than an hour, or pre- paring a term paper are nothing compared to the headaches from cramming for tests. Despite good intentions to start study for se- mester finals early, many Tigers discover that the dreaded tests somehow creep up faster than expected, and they frantically barricade themselves behind notebooks and texts. Al- though forced to sacrifice long telephone conversations, listening to records, or a trip to the White House Drive-Inn for an evening of cramming, we keep an optimistic eye on the prospect of a long week-end at the close of the ordeal. Typists start on the long road to the touch system— Bobby May, Becky Wilson.