Newport News High School - Anchor Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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Ad Don ' t take the picture on this page too seriously. Uncle Sam. Although we sometimes did wish that we could sleep blissfully through a particularly dull lecture or class discussion, we enjoyed our classes . . . honestly! When we first came into high school as timid lit- tle freshmen, we were bewildered by the many subjects offered and had a hard time trying to find our classes; but, by the time we were seniors, we knew everything backwards and for- wards, including the bell system. All of your young nieces and nephews are more than thankful that they are able to attend classes in this high school — classes that will prepare them for col- lege or a job in the industrial or busi- ness world. In the classroom they have gained knowledge of the past which will help them with the problems of the present and the future. 19

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% e Pa+idesied Que i Plantd Jnd PoiadAium Uncle Sam, when you went to school did you take any courses such as the ones offered here by the science department? Here we have gen- eral science, biology, chemistry, and physics. All Newport High students take at least one of these subjects while they are in high school, and some take them all. Peering through miscroscopes, these pupils learned what makes a frog croak and what makes a flower bloom. They also kept up with the cur- rent developments in the field of science by see- ing movies on the subject, reading newspaper and magazine articles, and by listening to radio programs. Future scientific progress will find workers among some of the more ambitious students. Although no one took the examination this year, the students had the opportunity of taking exams for the Westinghouse scholarship. Each semes- ter, the most outstanding student in the depart- ment is presented the Bausch-Lomb medal. The deserving student in the fall term was Shirley McCallum and in the spring, Harlene Wolever. WHAT MAKES BOATS FLOAT is no problem for this science class, which in connection with the study of flotation, made model boats to il- lustrate the principles learned. EXPERIMENTS IN THE CHEMISTRY CLASSES are always high spots of the courses. Although they concern practically every phase of chemistry, this experiment deals with the principle of the generator.