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

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A House Sustained In building and sustaining a house you invest, you create, you nourish, for, “Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established; And by knowledge shall the chambers be Filled with all precious and pleasant riches” A house is only as strong as its component parts — foundation, materials, and frame. The foundation upon which this house is established is knowledge, understanding, and good will. In combination with tradition they provide a sturdy base on which to build. The faculty can be considered the builders of this house, since it is they who hold the key to the door of knowledge. Through the portals of the classroom pass the busy students composing and preserving the structure with scholarship, leadership, service, and character. An inquisitive mind which can compare, analyze, and criticize is the rafter which joins the framework to the foundation, thus strengthening the structure. One of the hardest jobs of the “builders” is to train the students to create original ideas with the knowledge they have already gained. After accomplishing this objective, The Builders All are architects of fate, Working on the walls of time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems just idle show Strenghtens and supports the rest. For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our todays and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Truly shape and fashion these; Leaving no yawning gaps between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things willl remain unseen. Let us do our work as well, Both the unseen and the seen ; Make the house where gods may dwell Beautiful, entire and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble, as they seek to climb. Build today, then strong and sure, With firm and ample base; And ascending and secure Shall tomorrow find its place. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2

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Published By The Students of NEWPORT NEWS, VIRGINIA

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the true foundation has been laid, and the bricks will quickly rise, comple ting the first phase of construction. An open mind is as much a part of learning as windows are of a house. By instilling an appreciation for knowledge, the teachers permit the germ of learning to circulate throughout. The roof of the house can only be completed when the desire to continue learning has been implanted in the student. The last shingle, or the pursuit of perfection can be attached to the roof after the realization that the search for knowledge never ceases. Thus it can be concluded that, in reality, the house of knowledge is never a completed structure, but always a continuous process of building. The Alma Mater Within these sacred walls we stand, To praise thine honored name, We sing to thee, dear Newport High, Thy glories we proclaim. Chorus : Hail, hail to Gold and Blue, We raise thy banners high, And ever through thine endless days, In triumph, may they fly. O Alma Mater, in our hearts, We’ll often turn to thee, And echo once again the songs Of thy dear memory. Arthur Hundley, 1937 Table Of Contents Faculty 6- 19 Activities 20- 41 Classroom 42- 57 Sports 58- 81 School Life 82- 95 Underclassmen 96-125 Seniors - I 1 Advertising 174-213 3