Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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Page Four THE PEANUT FOREWORD That medium by which we keep in touch with the entire world is the newspaper. It gives local news and foreign news; good news and bad news: funny stories and sad stories. It tells of the well-known men and women of today; sometimes we even see our own name in print. That really makes us swell with pride, doesn’t it? Because of the important role the newspaper plays in our lives, both in school and out, the staff of Thk Peanut of 1946 has selected as its theme The Newspaper. The sections of a newspaper fit very nicely into the activities, faculty, classes, and sports of our school. The front page news is comparable to the headline news of school, made by the various clubs and activities. Since the news section is the main part of a paper, we have made the activities our first section. The ones who see that a newspaper turns out its best editions are the various editorial and business staffs. Therefore, we compare in our second section the newspaper editors and business managers to those in school who try so hard to see that each pupil becomes a suc¬ cessful person. They are our teachers, principal, superintendent, and school board. The third section of our yearbook is comprised of our students who make up the classes of Suffolk High. We shall call them the producers of the newspaper—the reporters, cub reporters, copy boys, typists, and proofreaders. And what student ever passes the entire day without avidly reading the sports news? This, our fourth section, is a very important part of our school life, and in it we present our athletic teams, cheerleaders, and monogram winners. Then there is that section of the newspaper to which most of us turn first—the feature. Among those features which you will see both in the newspaper and in the fifth section of this annual are comics, a crossword puzzle, and important names and events in the news. Of course our advertisements pay for our annual just as they pay for a newspaper. Therefore, no annual is complete without having its final section made up of ads. In this part of our book we present our advertisers who have made this volume possible. Surely, the newspaper ' s the thing!

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THE PEANUT Page Three DEDICATION MISS REED WEST On stage everybody!” Don ' t forget play practice tonight! By these expressions we shall always remember Miss Reed West, whose understanding of our shortcomings has won the love and respect of all of us. Through her efforts as Dramatic Club sponsor, clumsy try-outs and poor dress rehearsals have blossomed into polished performances. This indeed is a credit to her ability as play director. Miss West taught all of us Freshman English and gave us the basic foundation in journal¬ istic writings. From her teaching of English we learned the essentials that make it possible for us to edit an annual and newspaper. Any of our future journalistic undertakings will have as its basis the grammar and creative writings we learned under Miss West. Not only because of our love and respect for one who goes out of her way to be helpful, but also because our annual has a journalistic theme and Miss West gave us our start in such a field, do we dedicate The Peanut of ' 46 to a person of infinite patience and understanding. Miss Reed West.

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Section I THE PEANUT News PRESIDENTS OF CLUBS and ACTIVITIES I.eft to Right, First Row—Fowler, Knowles, Jones, Smither, Y’ann, Kitchen, Cross Second Row—Gray, Hines, Allx-rts, Dixon, Griggs Third Row—Saunders, Barrett, Mallette