West Mecklenburg High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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oe When a student enters high school, he ventures into a new phase of his life. Meeting new people, setting goals, and acquainting himself with varied situations are only a part of his challenging experience. Though You Think You Know It You Have No Certainty Worth Springs and James Mashburn use Singing a Spanish song, Marie Dunn The Vagabonds present ‘’The World of the blocking dummies during a football accompanies herself on the ukulele. Carl Sandburg.”’ practice session. Page 6

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Mr. Brumfield, school photographer, and Judy McCall, picture editor of the TOMAHAWK, look at prints of the numerous pictures taken for the annual. John Donne’s idea seems necessary in any healthy personal philosophy. A person tends to become narrow-minded and static if he lives in isolation. Mingling with people of different personalities and backgrounds strongly urges a person to broaden the perspective of his personal views. Indeed, for most people, life’s richest opportunity is seeking to understand and to establish meaningful contacts with other people. People unable to form bridges to other human islands are among the most miserable people alive. West Mecklenburg provides innumerable opportunities for each of its students tovavoid being an island to himself. CY VJ Vln O87 om 3 , Members of the glee’ club who possess a special interest in music form ; the ensembles which’ performs on special occasions. Alan Newcomb, a well-known television and radio commentator, speaks to the Student Council on “a the topic, ‘This Is Your Future. Page 5

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Mr. Freeman enthusiastically talks to Jean Eppes, Warner Lucas, and Sherrie Yandle about a recording of OTHELLO which they hear in the study of Shakespeare. Until You Try — SOPHOC LES The essence of any learning, especially learning about ourselves, is personal experience. Perhaps, an ideally developed person would know himself well enough to predict with some certainty his reactions to any situation. To progressively strive for this ideal entails experiencing new situations. When ex- periencing a situation from which he gains self- knowledge, a person becomes wholly engrossed in the situation and completely forgets himself. With- out such immersion and such self-release in a situa- tion, a person does not allow himself to act spon- taneously, He does not allow himself to be himself; therefore, he does not further his self-knowledge. West Mecklenburg provides a host of new ex- periences for each high school student; it challenges each student to lose himself in many activities in order that he may find himself. Climaxing the social, ‘’Winter Wonderland,” is the crowning of Nancy Counts as Miss Tomahawk by Donnie Boyd.