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Mrs. Wright Given Anchor Dedication Do you know what she’s making us do? Some stupid paper on Hamlet. And how about that idiotic grammar test? She’s generally impossible!” “Yeah, but she’s a good teacher!” The highest compliment a teacher can receive is the grudging, grumbling recognition by her students that she is a good teacher in spite of and because of her assignments of “idiotic” grammar tests and being “generally impossible.” It is this very special type of teacher whose dedication is unwavering, whose zeal for teaching is unquenchable and whose love of students, all students, is boundless that rates the simple yet impressive tribute —“Yeah, but she’s a good teacher.” It is with the greatest pleasure that the 1967-68 Anchor staff dedicates this edition to an individual who has in every way displayed the attributes of “a good teacher,” whose devotion, interest, and concern will be appreciated and remembered always by the students of Newport News High School. The Anchor staff takes pride in dedicating the 1968 Anchor to Mrs. Jeanette Wright. Right: “Acme is to nadir as mellifluous is to . . .?” asks Mrs. Wright as she prods David Wilson into finding the correct word to complete the analogy ' . Building Word Power and analogies were quite familiar to all of Mrs. Wright’s students. Below Mrs. Wright smiles approvingly as she surveys one of the college freshman reading lists she distributes to her senior English classes. 4
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Reflections Of Newport News A high school is more than just a hard, cold physical edifice of brick walls and concrete, of wooden doors, and of grand doric columns. A high school is a reflection of things as mundane as “What’s for lunch?” or as spiritual as a student’s first reading of Sonnets from the Portuguese, of things as banal as “Study hard for your test Tues- day!” or as extraordinary as the track team’s capturing both the indoor and outdoor state track ti- tles. Above all else, a high school is a reflection of the people, faculty and students, who attend it — and of their dreams and realities, their aspirations and their deeds, their efforts and their accomplishments. The following pages are but an attempt to capture the fleeting yet permanent, ephemeral yet enduring reflection of Newport News High School, 1967-68.
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Left: Mrs. Wright displays another aspect of her person- ality not seen by many stu- dents: her love of gardening. With her husband at their home on Cherry Street, she pauses from her weeding and pruning. Below: Mrs. Cameron and Mrs. Wright discuss proposed pur- chases of teaching materials for the English Department. 5
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