Northeastern High School - Aerie Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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All over the Elizabeth-City Pasquotank system, this year, schoolhouses really rocked . Some of them rocked right down, while others had some rocks added to them. Starting with the condemning of H. L. Trigg’s older section and the burning of Hattie Harney Elementary School, things went from bad to worse. But the edu- cational system really got rocked when building inspectors condemned Weeksville Elementary and parts of P.W. Moore. It seemed as if. brick by brick, rock by rock, schools in our system were crumbling right before our eyes. Students from these schools had to be bused to the Coast Guard Base and to Elizabeth City State to at tend classes for the rest of the year. Teachers scrambled to prepare as best they could in make shift class rooms in unusual places under unusual circumstances. Showing what teach ers are truly made of in our system, they worked long hours to make their students confortable in their relocations. County commissioners and school board members met again and again to come up with some workable solutions for the emergency that faced our school. It seemed to hinge on OUR ROCK Northeastern High School. 1 1 LJ 1 3—Opening

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OUR ROCK. Northeastern, was having a face lift. The library had a maior overhaul with added space, new shelves, carpet, paint; twenty new classrooms were added to house the incoming ninth grade class for next year. But things were moving at a real slow pace, and if work was not done in time for the ninth graders, then space would not be available for those students dislocated because of con demned schoolhouses. Yet. work con tinued and students at Northeastern adapted to the changing structure of the school. |ust as teachers learned to teach amid hammering, painting and construction confusion, fcven though the library was not accessible for the first semester, the librarians provided whatever materials they could locate in their dislocation for the teachers. Teachers learned to get along without a teachers' lounge and students learned to walk to the gym the long way around. Northeastern students and teachers showed what Mighty fcagles were made of in the midst of the structural mega mania that rocked’' our school. Our schoolhouse rocked with a transition of moving forward, brick by brick, rock by rock.