Norview High School - Pilot Yearbook (Norfolk, VA)

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H OF SPRING, THE SONG OF WINTER W doubled up on physical THE BREAT Our gymnasium carried a double load this year. e education classes, we met there on Saturday nites for the Teen-Age Club, made it -' ' 'cetball season and dressed it up for the big dances ring with cheers duimg basl of the year. se we and the students ot past We are proudest of all of our stadium becau ' years at Norview built the field which has become the site of football, baseball and softball games. Remember the iirst magazine you sold? Mr. Ross Wilson of the Curtis Publishing Company and Mr. George Cake of the faculty assuring us of the success of the drive? The shop boys hammering and erecting the bleachers? The huge lights that swept the iields? The first game played on our held in 1946? ' J 'l 't we are helping it to grow! We planned it, we bui t 1 ,

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The two home economics cottages lay just across the way. N1Ve learned sew ing, cooking, child care, home nursing, personal care, and good manners under the guidance of capable teachers and pleasant surroundings. The elementary building teaming with the wee-ones housed the first through the fifth grades. Because of overcrowded conditions, the building had to do double duty and one could see a little fellow trudging in at ' afternoon shift, a ten o'clock scholarn o11 time! twelve for the

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READIN' 'N' WRITIN' 'N' 'RITHMETIC .. Euglislzf No more will this terror of a subject cause anxious students fearful nights. For English has just about been conquered and now students have started coming back for more. So much so, in fact, that courses in advanced grammar, dramatics, speech, and journalism are now avail- able to the English bugs But then, under Miss Midyette's guiding hands, what English wouldn't be easy? H isfory Gosh, history! From Cleopatra to the Truman budget, every history student gets a thorough going over in this subject. But then, dates, names, speeches are easy to remember when assigned by a nice looking teacher! Students are exposed to Civics, Ancient, American, International Affairs and American Government during the four year course offered in this department. M GflLL 77ZCI1'1.CS These junior Einsteins have left the time tables far behind and now combat problems in general business, algebra, plane and solid geo- metry, and trigonometry. Brave people! Languages Amo, amas, amat . . . ever try to conjugate a latin verb. If not, maybe you've run across French or Spanish. All three are offered to Nor- viewites and do they love 'eml