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

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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

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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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PtejXGAituj, tf-an, flohi DEAR SIR, dictates Mr. William Shu- mate to a future secretary who is taking it down in short hand. All my students who want further experience receive it by working as secretaries for the mem- bers of the faculty. Many receive jobs through the commercial department. CLICKETY CLACK! Noise from these typewriters means that this typing one class is working hard. Here they are tak- ing a five minute speed test at the rate of twenty-five words per minute. As they advance they will be required to gain a speed of forty-five words per minute. SPRING CONCERT programs are the hard work of the advanced typing class that studies how to use a mimeo- graph machine. Also connected with the Commercial Department are the bookkeeping classes which learn to balance a set of books with ease. 13