Wakefield High School - Starstone Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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For at least three reasons, the publication of this year- book is an important event in the history of Wakefield High School. First of all, it is important because it marks the graduation of Wakefield ' s first senior class. Secondly, it is important because it is the first of similar publications which will ap- pear annually to commemorate the departure of the graduation class; each of which will be- come a challenging exercise in compressed design as it attempts to record with thoughtful and discriminating clarity the life of the school. And thirdly, it is important because a hard working, creative yearbook staff has produced a yearbook of excellent design which will bring credit to the school and which possesses intrinsic worth as an important school document. The 1955-56 staff has accorded me the very real privilege of making the dedication of this yearbook. Acting for the members of the annual staff, I hereby dedicate this yearbook to the 1956 graduating class, without whom this annual would have no point and to Mr. Rupert F. Moure, yearbook sponsor, without whose rich contributions this publication would not be the unique document that it is. The first senior class has for the past three years provided stimulation and direction for student activities. School traditions, student organiza- tion, academic achievement records, and rec- ords in interscholastic competition, have been established under their leadership, I have come to regard our seniors with affection and hold them worthy of this dedication. Mr. Moure ' s understanding of design possibil- ities; his superior ability to stimulate the creative powers of the high school students; and his very real gift for helping students find a cause cap- able of evoking and holding their devotion make him particulary worthy of this dedication. There are many reasons in addition to the ones set forth above that make this citation appro- priate. Any member of the staff and student body could enumerate them as well as I. It is a pleasure to make this dedication to an important student group, the senior class, and to a respect- ed member of the Wakefield staff and to know that it will be received with universal appro- bation. Principal, Wakefield High School DELTA DIEFFENBACH editor-in-chief BARBARA LAWRENCE class editor MARTHA RAYFIELD class assistant MAGGIE LEE art editor ELLEN KRUPSAW associate art editor PAUL HOBSON art assistant CAROL DOMINICK copy editor DIANE LETHCO copy assistant DEE JAY KAHN activities editor GARY PARKER sports editor STEVE MOORE photo editor ORVILLE B. LYNN photogra.pher CAROL BRUNO photo assistant JUDY ADAMS circulation manager DANI GRANTHAM circulation assistant KAY BRADLEY advertising managers CARLIE BURROWS CAROL PELTIER advertising assistant marie McGinnis publicity manager DAVID DOWNING bookkeeper JAN ADAMS secretarial staff CINDIE CLARDY NANCY HANKS SALLEY POWELL RUPERT MOURE faculty advisor

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akefield ’53-56 We looked apprehensively at the half completed building, the mud on which it floated, and the steel girders and wires which entangled it.