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

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New Calculus Course Offers Challenge To Select Seniors BuT, Colonel, a cube has Tour sides! DespiTe The diTTiculTies in This year's maTh classes, he Teachers succeeded in insTrucTing Their sTudenTs 1 mosT oT The obiecTives oT Their maTh courses: To Train Tupils To evaluaTe TacTs in given siTuaTions, To insTill a ense oT value in pupils, and To develop in Them The biliTy To Think. OTher obiecTives oT The Iv1aTh DeparT- 1enT were To provide pupils wifh a sound background 1 The basic TundamenTals oT maThemaTics Through log- :al reasoning and The scienTiTic approach. Under The direcTion oT ivlr. Neil Drummond, The llaTh DeparTmenT compleTed an exTremely signiTicanT nd diTTiculT year. By oTTering calculus Tor The. TirsT Time This year, arwick l-ligh School became The TwenTy-sixTh high hool in The sTaTe oT Virginia and The TirsT in NewporT ews To oTTer such a course. OTher maThemaTical ourse.s oTTered were: general maThemaTics: consumer aThemaTicsq Algebra l and ll, Ill and IV, and Algebra V1 eomeTry-plane, solid, and co-ordinaTeg Trigonome- y: and maTh analysis. Thus, work Trom The MaTh DeparTmenT comprised large porTion oT Time in The daily liTe oT a high school udenT. low: Mr. Drummond proves There is Tun in maTh. gl1T: Mrs. Barber demonsTraTes algebra division Techniques. -. T 1 1 T ' T 'E if-' J 'Ta --H. :H Tv: ' 1, , ' S., ' 'T ' ,T . - . . 1 T- ,, ,. Tu T . A . ,ni T ' 1 T T- T ,fi ' TTIlTT .T 'TTVETTY' WWW TTTWTT- TTT TTT Tie V TTT T T..1.Ei 1T2k?i:'5sv.saeev5sT T, . Te,,,.m,..T N TT TT TTT ,TTT mllmkggla Ti. ,iW11lTTT:f1., T 'Y :Q TT TT - ' f -65 Tzfw T T T. V' L nr F . .. , 4' as 59' rl lbs T-ET ui? T'zQrrTT i Twig? F Ts ' ii fsiiwi In T is T T! X My TT X T' ' T' f T- TTTHTTLTTTT .. .. T . - TT TT TT TTYTT T - -+ fsWm' 'Wiki .551 -Q TQ 31,5 V My M lei. ,S .SQ Colonel Archibald gives sTudenTs insTrucTion in maTh principles. T 27

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l l i -ea ,1 -lpn -,.,,.. - ::::::a1 ,,,,..-ll---..fjf y T . T in T of Miss Simmons makes English enioyable Tor her sTudenTs. World Literature Course Is Added to English Curriculum While English courses This year weren'T doub double Toil and Trouble They were quiTe a challen Tor many WHS English sTudenTs. w ChrisTine Williard and Linda Branch concenTraTe on an English as- signmenT. The upperclassmen were mainly conTronTed T y Y A sTudies in liTeraTure--compleTe, deTailed and really pc ' r'gg ular wiTh everyone involved. I An added liTerar o orTuniT Tor 'uniors a To insTrucTor. lvliss Callahan. The purpose OT The cou is To Tamiliarize The sTudenTs, exTensively and inT sively, wiTh The greaT liTerary works oT each coun and wiTh The represenTaTive auThors oT each coun.Tr Numerous reporTs and research papers were requi Trom The class members, who Tound The course bm rewarding and inTeresTing. x c , Y rp Y I seniors was The world liTeraTure course. Accordi I For The 8Th and 9'Th graders a special course oTTered To Those who needed improvemenT in read and basic language abiliTy. The SRA Reading Lab Tory, Nile BlanTon SmiTh's Be a BeTTer Reader Ser new library books, and supp'emenTary reading bo all aided sTudenTs' reading habiTs. Workbooks supg menTed The regular TexTbook-The combinaTion gree increasing comprehension in basic mechanics, spelli word skills and The TundamenTal grammar necessary eTTecTive speaking and wriTing. The oleparTmenT's sTeady progress in Teaching varied phases oT The English language and works c cerning iT deTiniTely proved The value OT organ: Teaching meThods. STudenTs and Teachers alike beneTi greaTly Trom such skilled Techniques.

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Y . X2 22-11g:fEQ F'LLI55.L .' 1 'v - eg-:',lj.Ir:1yfr3,iL ,- ----.-ale- - Randy Lucas and C. M. PriTchard sTrengThen a soluTion Through The process of TiTraTion. A Curl T Analytical Chemistry Offers y New Challenge for Seniors Mr. James MacNeil, head oT This year's Scienci DeparTmenT, enhanced The knowledge oT many science sTudenTs and modilied numerous courses by improvina Teaching meThods. This year The deparTmenT revised iTs senior science- program To conform To ThaT oT oTher ciTy high school The course consisTed OT one semesTer oT advance.d cherri isTry and one semesTer oT geneTics. Wilh The excepTions oT general physics and gen Tics, new TexTboolcs were provided Tor all scienc courses. Also, new microscopes were received and wer mosT he.lpTul To Mr. Kennedy's biology sTudenTs. ln add Tion To new microscopes, The Science DepaQTmenT o Tained maTerial ThaT enabled The physics class To mal: laboraTory experimenTs in opTics. The deparTme sTarTed a Tile oT prepared Transparencies Tor overhea proiecTors, and new science Tilms Trom The ciTy Til library were shown in The individual classrooms. Thes and oTher Techniques conTribuTed To The movemenT expanding The use oT audio-visual maTerials in Teachin Mrs. Audrene l-lughes This year began alTernaTi beTween Teaching ChemisTry and maTh, and reTurnin aTTer a year's absence was biology Teacher, Mrs. Eliz beTh GriTTin. By The end oT The year, sTuclenTs had successTul been insTilled wiTh a good lcnowledge oT chemisTr earTh-space. biology, physics. and geneTics. LefT: Biology sTudenTs waTch an enlighTening Tilm on walr Below: Barry Fox and Joe Alfonso exhibiT knowledge in A vanced ChemisTry. ' .A N T' l il -1 6 if XX d li iigggal ski, H g .,.. A T f Jian