Spingarn High School - L Esprit Yearbook (Washington, DC)

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Our Principal .,,, -1: in V w W-33 , ilwilihllgqg as els P' S W . W , I ,,, K - 4 :: ...., . x...., .52 W 77 .4.. DR. PURVIS JAMES WILLIAMS Booker T. Washington High School Norfolk, Virginia B.S. and M.S.- Howard University Ph.D. - University of Wisconsin Dr. Purvis I. Williams, chief administrator of Spingarn High School since its opening fourteen years ago, has directed the complex operations of this modern urban high school with patience, industry, deftness, and energy. He combines a substantial academic background with extensive experience and blends these two factors into a smoothly functioning administrative skill. His immediate job is the supervision of 1700 pupils, 76 teachers, large cafeteria, maintenance, and engineering staffs. His program of studies includes five curricula organized from 14 departments, which provide students with training in academic, vocational, and business subjects. We shall remember always his Warmth, his abiding interest in all of the students, his good judgment, and his impartiality. His Message To me, education is living, in the proper setting, it is loving. It is growing in countless ways: par- ticipation in sports, in clubs, in council activities, in student government, in social functions. The measure of an education is the use to which it is put. It is how well you use it that determines for you your personal success. Congratulations and all good wishes to the Class of '67.

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Our Alma Mater Spingafn High, We mme to ygu, We thank you for your guiding hand A teacher proud and trueg Arid real fraternity- For all the knowledge you can give Alma Mater deaf, To help to see us through SO Strong and Serene, The days and months and years ahead Weill never fail to stand and cheer When leaders we should be, The GGLD and the GREEN. Envisioning New Horizons in l966-I967 September, 1966 To the Senior Class of 1967, One's senior year at any school, especially at our beloved school, is always a rich, rewarding experience. It means hard work: work to master difficult subjects, work to perform well every day, regardless of how one feels, work to maintain a proper balance between study and play, frivolity and solemnity, thought and action. But shining ahead for each of us is a bright future for U , K if-jg 'ws ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Yerr, 4 a happy and successful life. We have hundreds of jobs from kfff r' which to make a selection, we shall meet hundreds of people who will broaden our experience, we shall have hundreds of exciting moments that will teach us so much more than we now know. Our roots lie here in classrooms in music, in art, in English, in history, in mathematics, in chemistry, in biology, in French. We shall make this year the best time of our educational years, to be cherished for all time, to be the inspiration of our every act. Molded by the spirit of Joel Elias Spingarn, dedicated to honor, and welded to truth, we face the future. In lasting sincerity, Deborah Brown Editor-in-Chief L'ESPRIT '67

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His duties are many and varied. Dr. Williams Dr. Williams with Mr. Harvey Brown and Royal Tate Dr. Williams and Guest He approaches every task with enthusiasm, warmth, and effi- ciency. 15