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

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l u£ Oust £motia vi 9ft Mfuiic OUR CHORAL GROUPS are made, not just put together, and rehearsed for hours at a time. Their training began in re- quired classes for the eighth graders. Long hours of work and practice have cer- tainly reaped well-earned rewards for both our chorus and our band, and we ' re proud of them. These two organizations received su- perior ratings in the District Two Music Con- test, held in the high school this spring. You should have heard them in action! Uncle Sam, the required vocal music classes, and a band group, combined forces and pro- duced the cantata, The Legend of Sleepy Hol- low, which was based on Washington Irving ' s famous folk-legend. The month of May was a busy one for the PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT, as this young flutist will tell you, Uncle Sam. In the near future, if she meets the re- quirements, she may become a member of our fine band. music department, full of the spring concert, the junior and senior band concert with the elementary school groups, and a trip to the state band contest in Charlottesville. Because they have studied hard and prac- ticed even harder, the music students have provided enjoyable entertainment for all their audiences. 29

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% e Z ' lt ' ix ' ie ' i ' LeA 6u i 1 Uaucflit ' i 9n ' Wa ' idd, We are really proud of our drama and speech department, Uncle Sam, for besides producing plays, the drama and speech students served as models for other schools. Schools without a drama department were referred to ours, and we are proud to say the drama department has the reputation of being one of the best in the nation! Dur- ing the year, groups of teachers from eight different schools came to watch our stu- dents in action! A drama clinic was held at the school in January for the Norfolk and Newport News district. Before the seven schools rep- resented here, the drama students illus- trated make-up techniques, and turned actors and actresses for directing demon- strations. For the first time in the history of the school, Uncle Sam, both of the senior class night plays were written by two of the sen- iors. These plays were class projects in Drama 4, where the advanced students studied play-writing. Before students reach the play-writing stage, however, they must have speech classes where they study such things as cor- rect posture in speech making, and how to put both their audiences and themselves more at ease during a speech. Our ad- vanced speech class became so good that it presented a series of radio programs for the Family Counseling Service. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED, Uncle Sam, that correct posture seems to make a speech easier to deliver and easier to listen to? Really, it does! MINIATURE STAGE SETS saved time, energy, nerves and patience when our dramatists were ar- ranging scene plots for a play. 28

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MindU 9+npAaaed lAiitlt McMt grade general math. Upon completion of these required courses, students may elect to study advanced general math and algebra, solid or plain geometry, or trig- onometry. After all these courses, Uncle Sam, we are certain to supply you with some good mathematicians and statisticians. Probably math is taught and studied the same way in Newport High as it is in other schools, Uncle Sam, but we do offer a wide variety of courses for both beginners and advanced stu- dents. Any student can find a math course to fit his need. The eighth graders study gen- eral mathematics, and if their average in general math is high enough, they go on to take al- gebra. If their average is on the low side, they advance to ninth IF YOU ASKED THEM, our solid geometry students could prove that the figure on the board is composed of arcs AB, BC, and CA, and that it is a spherical triangle. IT SEEMS THAT THERE is more than just one way to measure height. These plane geometry students are determin- ing their heights by triangulation. 30