Northfork High School - Hi Lights Yearbook (Northfork, WV)

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FACULTY , DAY THREE: jAPANESE FANTASY $ Japan is an archipelago consisting of four main islands and countless smaller ones, extending over 1,300 miles, all ribboned by mountains of gentle, undulating beauty, such as snow-topped volcanic Mount Fuji, and by iewel-like BENJAMIN HALL gardens. The religions today are ART 1, II Shintoism. Christianity, and Buddhism. ART CLUB The government is now a constitutional republic, with the king as titular head MARY HARVEY only. Industry is progressive and GUIDANCE excellent, having improved much since World War II. japan is a world leader in shipbuilding, automobiles, textiles, machinery, optical instruments, and .- cultured pearls. LOLA LANZI ENGLISH 10, 12 CHARLIE LIPSCOMB BIOLOGY LOUISE MCCLANAHAN BUSINESS MATH GENERAL BUSINESS FBLA CLUB THEDA MUTH HOME ECONOMICS I, II ADULT ROLES CHEERLEADERS

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C t; v FQUlLT-ek FACULTY DAY TWO: INDIAN ADVENTURES ' e W imi e i jOHN BRANT HEALTH, COACHING PHYSICAL EDUCATION MARIL YN BUSH e ????;iiihas 1? VA: e s ISX I Q1272 : 5 I 1 , i jA CQUELINE CARRINGTON A SPECIAL EDUCATION ENGLISH 10, SAE CLUB DARLENE CLARK CHORUS xe ii a J :6 2; v. :ka 63$ W CQ$Q 077 UV Q$ e0 Xy U y 3 Cc .3 V ecQa U - Ian, Ilm t RONALD COWAN LIBRARIAN COACHING 192; 3S? SCARLET? GOOSENS W FRENCH 1. n, 111 X ENGLISH 12, SPEECH YEARBOOK, FRENCH CLUB NM XEN Lying south of the lofty Himalayans, which has the highest mountain in the world Mt. Everest i29,028 ftQ, in South Asia, the Indian Subcontinent has a recorded history and culture of over 5,000 years. India is about 2,000 miles long and wide with the Great Ganges and Brahmaputra rivers, temperatures freezing in the winters in the north and subtropical in the south, unbearably hot in summers, with Monsoon rains three lO or four months each year. The earliest known civilizations, 5,000 B. C., in the Moienijaros, Indus Valley, was supplanted by Aryans through the Khyber Pass from Central Asia about 2.000 B. C.. bringing tame horses and the caste system to India. In 330 B. C. Alexander the Great of Greece, conquered the area, bringing Western influences. Hinduism is the predominant religion with its janist sect inonviolencei and its long-beared Sikhs. Today, India is making rapid strides toward industrialization of steel. textiles, chemicals, cement, mining of iron ore, coal, and petroleum. Elements to be e appreciated today from Indian life are A Indian curries, Indian folk dances, caves, 7, . . . palaces, temples, isuch as the Ta; e Mahali, gardens. wild elephants, tigers, panthers, rhinoceros. boar, precious and semi-precious stones, wool scarves and silk saris, cottons. tapestries and rugs, and bidriware izinc and copper with silver inlayi, jute, sugar cane, vegetable oils, and tea. N C

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Iran, ancient Persia, is a land of beautiful gardens, of poetry, of miniature painting, of fabulous Oriental rugs, of famous cities-Tabriz, Isfahan, ' Shiraz-of heroes like Rustram, and story-tellers like Haiji Baba. It is the land of Darius the Great, who built the first great highway, the Royal Road from Susa to Sardis, and the magnificient palaces of Susa and Persepolis. In 9 TYPING 1, 11 1-: Biblical days. when Queen Esther saw Q OFFICE PRACTICE i : Xerxes here, Persian power extended all SCHOOL TREASURER over southeastern Asia and parts of H e Europe. In the seventh century, world- famous centers of culture at Baghdad 3m and Damacus ruled. During the Middle 77-? Ages, Persia lost its power and wealth. i5 but began to recover wealth with the ' discovery of oil in the 20th century l4th largest oil producer todayl. Iran is a ' mountainous plateau in the Middle Eastern area of southwest Asia between the Caspian Sea, the world's largest salt waterlake, and the Persian Gulf. Karun 1,. is the only navigable tiver; others dry up :. '1! in the lifeless salt and sand deserts of over 38,000 square miles. The highest point Mt. Demavend at 18,376 feet is not far from Tehran, the capital. Today, one- ,- fourth of the Iranians are nomadic, J ; originally from Central Asia. The . . Moslem state of today is a far cry from H'. the glorious Persia extolled in poetry by '7 Omar Khayyam. However, Persian specialties are many delicious varieties of : bread, melons, caviar from the Caspian. rugs, enameled jewelry, brass and coppertrays, silks. inlaid wood, brocades; and favorite pastimes are soccer, . basketball, wrestling, skiing, and playing chess while smoking a hookah lwater 13.32 ALGEBRA II 0- PLANE GEOMETRY COACHING ' PATTY PERETTI . r HzrgH-n. .. 3.5792'4'3 Mn 7?; .-. . -- .- . t. .. I r. l ; jEWEL SMITH l 1 WORLD CULTURE l . SYLVENE THOMAS BOOKKEEPING I, u l E SHORTHAND, FML CLUB 3 m U air E 3:- GEORGE TRECHOCK GOVERNMENT , ' KEY CLUB $3. 7W NANCY VARALLI . DRIVER EDUCATION -