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

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I’m sure a circle has corners . . . just let me work it out on my trusty slide rule.” Students Improve Reasoning Through New Math Get out a sheet of paper, please ...” Another of Mrs. Bright’s well-known Trig tests, no doubt, or one of Colonel’s Geometry tests, or maybe one of Mrs. Hazelwood’s Algebra quizzes. Whether it was Trig or General Math, freshmen and seniors alike found that mathematics was simply one problem on top of another, from one plus one to solving quadratic equations. Besides general mat h, more and more eighth graders attempted first year Algebra, which dealt with standard Algebra principles. Students who managed to survive moved on to Geom- etry. The department offered plain, solid, and co-ordinate Geometry in a single year. Second year Algebra and Trigonometry were the next rungs on the mathematical ladder. This year, for the very brave, Advanced High School Mathematics was offered. Students who planned a career in engineering or other vocations which required a mathematical background found the courses offered a great help in advancing toward their planned goals. By the end of the year, each student was familiar with the new con- cepts, proving the Math Department to be an extremely valuable part of Warwick’s curriculum. As for those tests, well, maybe they’ll be easier next year. Now let me think ... a four sided triangle.

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English Department Stresses Correctness and Composition Is this a dagger I see before me?” More than likely it’s a Senior literature book, yellowed with age and covered with penciled notes. This year in the Sophomore, Junior, and Senior Classes more emphasis was placed on the finer and more intricate aspects of writing and speaking, rather than instruction in the fundamentals of grammar and mechanical correctness supposedly learned in the earlier grades. One may also have heard other quotes and lines from literature such as a gliding great demon on the seas of life” — referring to none other than Moby Pickle, or Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look” — more than likely a product of fourth period English ! In the lower grades, however, English grammar received the major emphasis with an effort to improve instruction through a concentrated course in English grammar and composition pre- sented during the first semester and completed by a course in literature and composition the second semester. By concentrating on the mastery of the fundamentals in English,” said Mrs. Taylor, teachers hope to turn out students from the eighth and ninth grades who can both speak and write their language with reasonable correctness.” During the second semester, when the eighth and ninth graders were introduced to high school literature, they likely met such classical friends as Great Expectations, The Prince and the Pauper, as well as various forms of 6reek Mythology. Christine Carney: Well, uh, I read this book . . . about this little girl . . . and, uh, she met this wolf . . Now your question was, if the singular of mice is mouse, why isn’t the singular of dice douse?” Journalism students eagerly read about Dick Tracy, an essential part of a news- paper. 22

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Kennedy, my fruit fly has one red eye and one white eye, stripes, six legs, and only one wing.” industrious senior Genetics student may have gotten his .eciing jars mixed up with a few spiders and bumble bees, but we knew that his end results couldn’t be any more disastrous than last year’s five pound fruit flies. The underclass Science courses this year may not have been as productive, but the knowledge they gained from such intro- ductory courses as Physics, Chemistry, Earth-Space, and Biology did much toward increasing their enthusiasm in the field of Science. The department received a number of reference books for classroom use which, coupled with experimental projects and laboratory work, modernized the program. Besides the addition of books, the Science Department received such new equipment as oil emersion microscopes, making greater magnification possible, stereo microscopes, which because of their two viewers were especially valuable in viewing living organisms, and incubators which were used in rearing bacteria and hatching eggs. Also on the list of new equipment were two classrooms of badly needed tables and chairs, which, however, were going to waste in Mr. Howell’s room as everytime we walked in we found all his poor, gullible eighth graders standing in one corner of the classroom, hands clasped together and held in the air as Mr. Howell, looking very smug and evil, pulled the lever of an electric generator and sent all the students screaming about the room as a result of the electrical shock. I wonder what it feels like to be seen under a microscope? Science Shocks Students With New Phenomena 24