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

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To receive a West Mecklenburg High School diploma at the graduation exercises in June is one of each senior’s goals.

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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.

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Mrs. Foster accepts a United States flag that Tony More- Surrounded by Steve Turner, Bill Squires, and Diane Thompson, land presents to the school on behalf of the Key Club. the school spirit machine boosts school spirit at pep rallies. You Must Keep Your Goal in Sight — WITTER BYNNER So that he will not become a static individual, a person determines certain goals toward which he will work and certain values under which he will guide his life. Quite often, goals and values are subtly forced on the individual without his con- scious realization of the coercion. Because he suc- cumbs unthinkingly to environmental influences, a teen-age person may follow certain routines chosen by others. Such a person harms himself by not rec- ognizing his distinctiveness as a product not only of his environment but also of his biological heredity. Since he is unique, the goals and values chosen by parents, school, or some social clique may not be conducive to his development into a healthy indi- vidual. Ultimately, only the person himself can de- cide goals within his capabilities and values mean- ingful to him. Nevertheless, almost every teen-age person needs assistance in determining the goals and values that are right for him. West Mecklenburg provides both the assistance in helping an individual to guide himself and a wide variety of activities from which to choose goals and Being fitted for his 1966 senior ring reminds ; d the junior that his second year at West has in Which to test values. nearly ended. Page 9