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

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OncA aki+uj, My Jllh vdAy WHAT CAN I DO after graduation? asks one of these vocational civics students. Study of the requirements and qualifications of dif- ferent jobs as well as field trips to see people at work, helps my students get a chance to see what vocation they want to follow. DISCUSSING LEGAL POINTS of law with Judge Herbert Smith are four government stu- dents. These students, with the rest of the government class, heard a murder trial this year. In class they drew up constitutions, held trials and studied state government. Also of- fered are modern, medieval and U. S. history. POSTERS WHICH CHANCE with every sea- son brighten the library and make it a more pleasant place in which to work or read. In order to create an interest in books among the students, Book Week is held annually with quizzes, displays and contests. THIS NINTH GRADE speech class is only one of many which come to my library during the day. With the largest book collection and reading room of any high school in the State, my library has 16,000 books, adds about 500 volumes each year, and takes 45 magazines and five newspapers regularly.

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Mo-desiniyinCf Jla+UfUacj, l TO CARRY OUT their studies of Roman life, three Latin students are arranging the kitchen of a Roman house just as it might have looked in the days of the Roman empire. Besides learning about the homes, Latin students also study the early history of Rome, her govern- ment and political leaders, her heroes and wars, and poetry and prose written by great writers of that time, such as Virgil and Cicero. LATIN AMERICAN DANCES and costumes continue to be the style for Spanish students even after a quarter of a century. Here Rita Bromberg and Elaine Diamonstein are demon- strating the Mexican Hat Dance (Jarabe Tapatio), the national dance of Mexico. With Stronger Ties Between the Americas as their motto, most of the Spanish students join the International Student Society. MAY I INTRODUCE my father. Learning the correct way to make introductions is one of the many lessons the eighth grade English students study. They also begin their gram- mar and composition. This year emphasis was placed on creative writing and a class spe- cifically for this was started in the Spring. Also, there was a school-wide drive for better grammar and composition. TO CO OR not to go. That is the question. Paraphrasing that famous line of Hamlet ' s soliloquy, these English students are debating whether they should see Hamlet again or not. Given special study in class, many English students saw both the movie Hamlet and the Barter Theater production; in class they saw the movies. Julius Caesar - and A Tale of Two Cities. A change from 1924! 10

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McJzUuj, Mailt Pnxicilcxd LOOK, in 1938 there were more ac- cidents than in 1939 ' remarks an eighth grade math student. This class is busy studying the different kinds of graphs. In between circles and line graphs, studies include banking and installment buying. THIS PLANE GEOMETRY class is learn- ing to use a slide rule. Although this is not a regular lesson in the study of geometry, students were interested and asked to learn. In their study of congru- ent triangles and other figures, students get a foundation for advanced mathe- matics. HOW TALL IS the flag pole? These stu- dents of trigonometry are going to find out by use of a transit. Besides survey- ing, these students, in the most advanced math class, study plane sailing, middle latitude sailing, dead reckoning, and as- tronomical problems. 12