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

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Industrial Courses Provide Training, Work Experience The Industrial Education Department, formerly the Industrial Arts Department, experienced many changes besides that of its name. Some of these changes concerned the department’s addition of a few new nuts” and bolts” in the way of teachers. Teach- ing metal work and woodwork were Mr. J. R. Gregg and Mr. G. R. Greer, respectively, while Mr. W. E. Jones finished another year as drafting instructor and department head. Continuing as electricity and electronic instructor was Mr. C. A. Brown, under whose guidance electricity was introduced for the first time into the General Shop program for 8th graders. The course was de- signed primarily for exploration of electricity and its relationship in everyday living with emphasis placed on safe working habits and procedures. Also under the operation of the Industrial Education Department was the I.C.T. (Industrial Co-operative Training) program which enabled students to combine education with actual work experience resulting in vocational training opportunities invaluable to success after high school. In the way of projects the architectual section of drafting tried a new innovation with Ken Cooke’s scaled model of an actual two-story house. The completed project was used as a visual aid for improving learning conditions in the classes. Besides bene- fiting the classes, the Industrial Education Department undertook projects which aided the individual classrooms and the school as a whole, proving that they were, indeed, an asset at Warwick even if none of the language classes upstairs could hear for the buzz saws ! A WHS student welds a brighter future.

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Business Classes Strive to Achieve Excellence in Technique Forty-five words on a minute timing — that’s great!’’ Yes, but I have fourteen mistakes and one strike-over!” Well, it’s been said that mistakes are the inspiration for ambitions, and this was certainly the case in the courses of Typ- ing, Shorthand, Bookkeeping, Record Keeping, General Business, and Vocational Office Training. The Business Department was well equipped with the latest machines for progressive work experience which, we hoped, en- abled graduates to gain full-time employment in the business world and possibly to marry the boss’ son. The Business Department was actually divided into two groups — those taking courses such as Typing for their own personal use, and those participating in Vocational Office Training, better known as V.O.T. This latter group began with General Business in the tenth grade and followed this course with two years of Typing, one of Shorthand, and two of Bookkeeping. In these more advanced classes, the students worked with adding machines, rotary cal- culators, posting machines, spirit duplicators, and transcription machines. All of the machines were typical of those found in the local businesses in which fourteen Warwick students work part time through V.O.T. Does it take a short hand to do shorthand ? Now is the time for all . . .”

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Drama Students Memorize, Study to Attain Excellence The Drama students at Warwick were not difficult to recognize as they came rushing out of class late, hurriedly wiping the oily make-up and eye shadow from their faces and trying to remember the exact vocal techniques involved in saying, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.” Vocal and make-up techniques, however, were only two of the many phases of Drama studied this year. Others were the history of the theatre, reading and analyzing of various plays, stage craft, costumes and group acting. There were no specific test books used in Drama, but the library suppied the department with related materials for their courses such as those about Stanislavski and The Method.” In the way of field trips and equipment, the Drama Department made good use of a tape recorder, a trip to a William and Mary theatre production, and a visit to a well-equipped theater. A new face, at least among the Drama students this year, was Miss Shirley Minnick, the leading lady” of the Drama Depart- ment. Under her direction, Warwick’s famed actors were con- stantly involved in theatrical productions. My eyes always work better after they are greased!’’ Advanced Art Course Offers Choice of Media Mr. Sheaks stood at the front of the class, dressed in white levis, a long rubber apron, and a madras hat, casually dabbing at another masterpiece as he explained to his students: Modern painting does not mean surf boards, ’65 Sting Rays, or beauties in topless swim suits.” ' However square” this advice may have sounded to the enthu- siastic teenagers, the fact was they put it to good use and came up with some first class art. In Mr. Britten’s class, the predominant media were ceramics and textiles. The students learned various glazing and decorating techniques and also worked with stitching and weaving. In Mrs. Carson’s class, the students were found designing and constructing with metal such things as mobiles and jewelry. In Miss Perrin’s class, the future artists experimented with sculpturing and graphic work using such materials as clay, wax, wood, plaster, wire, metal, and stone. Last, but never least, Mr. Sheaks’ classes sketched, drew, and painted in the various medias including oils, water-paints, poly- mer, encaustic, and mixed media. The ultimate result of this un- limited field for artistic creativity was a variety of art work, both abstract and realistic, of such subjects as surfboards, Sting Rays . . . Block printing: the first step to counterfeiting.