Warwick High School - Warwick Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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For nine months out of a year, five days out of a week, from 8:45 a. m. until 3:15 p. m., our lives at Warwick are filled with classes. The purpose of these classes is to instruct stu- dents in the many subjects offered in our school. Consequently, this is the most important part of our school life, for the main objective of a school is to educate. To an outsider, having forgotten or missed his high school days, classes may seem to be a monotonous routine. Oh, sure, we all get tired sometimes, teachers included, but in these days of modern education there are various ways in which our interests are en- couraged. Few of us will ever forget that field trip we took to our State Capital with our Govern- ment Class. . . And the fun the girls had serving their first real dinner party in Home Ec. Of course, they had the dishes afterwards. . . The boys in Shop tried to outdo each other making all kinds of gadgets. . . Those Biology notebooks were really something, all those grasshoppers and everything. . . The whole school will remember the day the Chemistry Class made sulphur; it had such a peculiar odor. . . A continual rivalry lasted the year through between the teams formed in Gym Class. . . . The endless headaches we all suffered over those meaningless angles in Geometry; how easy it was when the light dawned, at last! ... In Typing Class, there was the never-ending battle with the chart; trving to beat your own record. . . Art Class was

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FACULTY Mr. F ' rancis McFall Mrs. Coeina McPhail Miss Martha Morrison Mrs. Pierce Mrs. Hazel Poindexter Miss Helen Porter Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds Miss Dolly Seward Mr. Barclay Shears Mrs. Lelia Shumate Miss Ann Simpson Mrs. Edna Smith Mr. Sammy Somervill Mr. Robert Steckroth Mrs. Helen Sydnor Mr. Simeon P. Taylor III Mrs. Kathryn Thomas Mr. Edward Thomas Miss Ruby Thorpe Mrs. Mary Trull Mr. Fred Tubbs Mrs. Dorothea Vratinina Mrs. Ruth Wright Not Pictured.

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...CLASSES always fun and if our pictures were good enough they were put in the front hall for all to admire (or criticize) . . . We all enjoyed reading books for English Class, but we were glad when those reports were over. . . In Journalism Class there was always that mad scramble; meeting deadlines, getting ads, getting subscriptions, and staying out of the red. . . Our French linguists went around “ Parlez vous-ing”while our modern-day Romans recited “Amo, amas, amat.” . . In History Class, we fought the whole Civil War over again; this time the Confederates won! . . . ’Tisn’t possible to present a year’s classes on two pages. We’ve all had fun, though, and will be returning next year for more of the same, except for those lucky stiffs we speak of in hushed tones — “Seniors.” ' Oops, gotta go now! The bell’s ringing for my next class. . .