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

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These are our home economics teachers. Seated from left to right are Mrs. Edwin C. Good, Miss Willadean Dalton, Miss Helen Bar- row, and Mrs. Charles L. Breckinridge. Mrs.Goodis a graduate of Madison College, where she received her B.S. Degree. This is her first year at Junior High. Miss Dalton holds a B.S. Degr.ee from Radfordand has taught here two years prior to this year. Miss Barrow and Mrs. Breckinridge have B.S. Degrees from Longwood and each is an experienced home- making teacher. And here are the shop instructors, Mr. Garland Brown, at the left, has a B.S. Degree from East Carolina College, where he is doing work toward a Master ' s Degree. He is new at Junior High this year. He has worked as a highway engineer, and he served three years as a paratrooper. In the center is Mr. Kenneth Williams, with a B.S. Degree from East Carolina where he , too, is doing graduate work. He is also a grad- uate of the N. N. S. D. D. Co. Apprentice School, and he served five years in the Navy. The gentleman at the right is Mr. Archie Hughes Jr., first industrial arts instructor to be employed at Junior High. Mr. Hughes holds a B.S. Degree from West Virginia Institute of Technology. 12

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Here are our Assistant Principal, Mr. Jack M. Custer, and our school secretaries, Mrs. Joseph W. Mahanes, seated, and Miss Audrey Davis. Mr. Custer came to Junior High in 1957. He has B.S. and M. Ed. Degrees from the College of William and Mary, and before coming to Junior High he taught mathematics for five years at Warwick ' s senior high school. Mrs. Mahanes has done substitute teaching at Briarfield elementary school and has super- vised the Parkview playgound during the summ- er. Miss Davis was a secretary for two years at the senior high school before coming here when this school was established. She attended Madison College. These are our librarians, Mrs. Ernest J. Colburn on the left, Miss Helen Elizabeth Ha- verty on the right. Mrs. Colburn was graduated from Newport News Business College and has worked previously at Buxton Hospital, the U.S. Navy Department, and the U.S. Post Office. Miss Haverty has A.B.and B.S. Degrees in Library Science from Westhampton College and the Univer sity of North Carolina. She has taught for a number of years, worked in the Public Library in Washington, D.C. 14 years, and, in the summer 1955, studied at the Univer- sity of Munich. These two V.I.P’s. are our Dietitian and our School Nurse. Mrs. L. H. Basford on the left, attends to that all-important business of feeding about 1400 people daily. She has man- aged the cafeteria here since it first began operating shortly after the school was estab- lished. For three summers she has attended the School Lunch Conference at Madison College. Mrs. J. I. Bateman is a sort of house- mother who attends all kinds of ills from toe to toothache. She is a Registered Nurse; a grad- uate of Riverside Hospital, with three months training in Pediatrics at the Medical College of Virginia. She is on duty all day every day.

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These are not all of the science teachers at Junior High but all of these do teach in the science department. Mrs. Lawrence G. Williams, at the left, has a B.S. Degree from Longwood, where she was assistant laboratory instructor in anatomy and physiology. Next is Mrs. G. Yancey Pleasants, who holds a B.S. Degree from Radford. She has taught at Martinsville, LaCrosse, and Natural Bridge, and at Merced, Calif. Miss Patricia Ann Fitzwater is a grad- uate of the University of Virginia from which she received her A. B. Degree. She has had considerable experience as a Girl Scout leader. Mr. Robert Stout received his Ph. B. De- gree from Loyola College, Baltimore, Md. He worked in the Shipyard last summer, and has served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps as an X-ray technician . Mrs. Richard S. Mertig graduated from Carson-Newman College, where she received her B.S. Degree. She did cancer research while attending college. Miss Susan Johnson is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and holds a B.S. Degree. She has worked as a bacteriologist for the city of New- port News. The teachers ' day begins here - at the mail boxes , where each picks up office bulle- tins, memoranda, and other items. At left is Mr. Vincent B. Oglesby (newly married) who is a graduate of East Carolina with the B.S. Degree. At center is Mr. Henry G. Drudge, a graduate of the University of Richmond where he received an A. B. Degree. He is doing work toward the Master ' s Degree, and worked in the Shipyard this past summer. The other gentleman is Mr. James M. Leonard, who was also a Yard employee in the summer, graduated with the A. B. Degree from Emory and Henry College. He served two years in the U.S. Army with the majority of that time being spent in Italy. Mr. Oglesby teaches civics; Mr. Drudge teaches science; and Mr. Leonard teaches mathematics. 13