Sumter High School - Paragon Yearbook (Sumter, SC)

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Opposite page: til Hitting the books again poses no problem for Cecil Scott. C25 Major Scott, Lou- ella Wilson, Miss Couch, and Cindy O'Neil bring out the overhead projector from summer storage to aid inthe presentation of oral reports. C33 Eager to start the year off right, Valerie Nelson uses spare classtime to advantage. This Page: C11 Cor- nell Daney finds that he must firstdisassemble the frontend of the auto before he can start re- assembling. C23 Paul Greene chisels the initial cuts from a block of wood that will be transform- ed into an intricate African carving. Student Life 15

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Classes Take Shape After Chaos of First Few Weeks just as the summer-worn landscape assumed a fresh new facade when the cool autumn days approached, so life did at Sumter High. The adjustment period passed, with its confused, com- puterized schedules and lost students, and SHSers found' themselves com- pletely immersed in a flood of text- books. The void spaces began rapidly filling with facts and figures, and the creaky, old memory machine was oiled and rehauled for use in the year ahead. 'I4 Student Life ,far Q ' fff -, ,t v 'f 4' , 3 ffl'

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Students Welcome New Academic Changes With each passing class period, the halls of SHS grew quieter and quieter, a strange phenomena that could only be explained by a handful of enter- prising students and energetic teachers. They had traded in their extra hour of sleep each morning to attend one of the newly - established seven-thirty classes. Their sacrifice reaped bene- fits, however, because some students were dismissed as early as eleven-thirty. There was a host of changes and ad- ditions in the actual selection of courses. Nine-week science courses were made available to students through the mini-course system, and several full year courses were introduc- ed.The most noticeable change though, was the change in the classroom atmo- sphere. With the new batch of young teachers, came young ideas and better student-teacher relationships. . 2 , l 3 Q ff, iiiie itit T 16 Student Life