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

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GCA Federation Promotes Relations Between Schools Just wait till we play you in football and basketball, then j you’ll see who has the best school.” This was a familiar cry at many of the monthly Federation I meetings this past year. Even though remarks such as this were j frequently made, and Newport News kept attempting to disband | the whole Federation, the group did occasionally manage to ac- | complish its purpose of bettering relations between schools. Under Lee Byers’ leadership, many programs were changed, j The seven delegates from the members schools of Ferguson, Hamp- I ton, Newport News, York, Kecoughtan, and Warwick were evenly ; divided and placed on committees where the majority of the busi- 1 ness was conducted. The three committees were: Weeks, Projects, and Programs. The Weeks Committee made suggestions for weeks to be spon- sored and conducted by each school at the same time. Those chosen were: Leadership Training, Know Your S.C.A., American- ism, and Brotherhood. As its service project, the Federation gave parties for the children’s ward in two local hospitals during Christmas. War- wick was responsible for purchasing the gifts for the children at Mary Immaculate Hospital. Other projects and programs were an invitation for St. Vincent’s Catholic High School to join Federation, and two exchange days sponsored by Kecoughtan and York. Federation members are: Row 1 — Billy Dunn, Frank Coleman, Melvin Reynolds. Row 2 — Carol Spencer, Kathy Scott, Ann McEnerney, Carol Lee Barlow, Anne Rodriguez, Mary Pat Tull, Brenda Winall, Nicki Robins. Frank Coleman and Betty Wall discuss Leadership Training Week, one of five weeks sponsored by Peninsula Federation. Warwick ' s contribution to the Federation’s Christmas Project was gifts to the children ' s ward at Mary Immaculate Hospital.

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8CA Executives Devote Time, Energy to Duties A popular phrase around the SCA room with the Executive Council was, Never a dull moment,” and never were truer words spoken. If it wasn’t Mrs. Kostyal pounding her shoe against the water fountain on the back steps of the library (a secret signal necessary when the door was locked), it was the weird mixtures of Trig and Warwick cheers issuing forth from the thin walls of the SCA room first period. In actuality the Executive Council worked together quite suc- cessfully, accomplishing much. Some of the projects dealt with were the second annual Variety Show, establishment of new cabinet positions, Farmer Day, the District SCA Conference which Warwick hosted, a faculty tea, the Federation sponsored weeks, the distribution of Honor Cards, the re-establishment of Chapel services, and the formation of var- ious committees to investigate and improve conduct and attitudes at Warwick. However, most of the first period meetings were spent with individual work. Billy Dunn, SCA president, assisted by Brenda Winall, vice-president, and sponsor, Mrs. Kostyal, composed the agenda for the weekly Congress meetings held Wednesday in the boys’ gym and dealt with visitors whose business concerned the student body. Mary Pat Tull, treasurer, spent her mornings running back and forth to the IBM room filling out purchase orders and trying to figure out where that extra $180.01 came from so she could balance her books. Kathy Scott, secretary, spent her short hour rewriting minutes of Congress meetings for the homeroom bulletins, keeping an accurate weekly Congress attendance roll, as well as doing all necessary correspondence and making ballots for various elections. With the odds being three to one in favor of the female opinion, Billy was often heard to cry out, Wait, stop, you’re railroading this through!” But a little pressure enforced outside of school established once and for all an even balance. S.C.A. president, Billy Dunn, joins in Farmer Day.

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Melvin Reynolds converses with Senior Class color committee Chairman, Linda Russell — one of the many duties of the office which places him in the Senate. Senators Strive to Create A United, Efficient SCA There will be a Senate meeting Monday afternoon in the SCA room to draw up the Aims and Objectives. All class officers and the President of the Executive Honor Council please be present.” A frequent message in the daily bulletin this year was a call to duty for the Senators of the SCA. Their efficient execution of their many duties enabled the SCA to continue functioning properly. One of the first actions of the Senate was performed in the spring of 1964, shortly after class elections, when the Senate met to approve the newly appointed SCA Cabinet. When the new school year started in September, they met again to appoint a Board of Elections, to revise the SCA Aims and Objectives, and to approve other presidential appointments. These meetings were presided over by Brenda Winall, SCA vice- president, and supplemented by the guidance of Mrs. Kostyal, SCA sponsor. Throughout the year, the main objective of the Senate was to promote unity among the classes; and, in doing so, to organize a more effective SCA. Special emphasis, however, was placed on co-operation among the classes in raising their contributions to the SCA Scholarship Fund. Barbara Rountrey, a Senate member, dis- cusses the effect of the Aims and Objectives on the Junior Class with Don Owen and Susan Tilson. The Senate included: Standing (l-r ) — Wayne Godfrey, Michael Lambert, Mark Chesson, Sue Willis, Melvin Reynolds, . Linda Graham, Frank Coleman, and Brenda Winall. Seated (counter-clockwise) — Sharon Wiseman, Emmy Gibbons, Barbara Rountrey, Jo Saunders, Sandi Bryant, Leslie Stallings, and Bonnie Brown.