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

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Completing Lessons, Students Employ Creative Ability To congratulate Coach Peek for a job well-done, Terry Helms, Allen Gayle, and Mike Irby carry him off the field. To increase their knowledge and understanding, the students of West Mecklenburg used their creative ability in completing their assigned tasks. From the wide variety of courses, they selected their avenues of endeavor and applied themselves in learning the required, such as math and English, and the elect¬ ives, such as art and foreign languages. The teachers aided the students in their quest for knowledge. Utilizing new and old techniques, they captured the students’ attention and led the students into new horizons of learning. To further guide the students, they served as sponsors, gave in¬ dividual aid, and offered helpful advice. Employing her imagination, an art student uses a blow torch and wire to create an interesting abstract design. In the newly-established auto body and fender repair course, Max Womack and other students test their knowledge and skill of auto mechanics through replacing the wheel bearings of a teacher’s car.

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Being extracurricular activities, the numerous clubs gave stu¬ dents a broader horizon in the field of study in which they were interested. Included in the clubs’ activities were service projects, promoted not only for the school but also for the community and city. Field trips, lectures, and discussion groups were other important phases of the clubs’ scheduled activities. Membership in curriculum clubs was limited to those students enrolled in the sponsoring course. Having a desire to work and help others was the primary requirement for membership in a service club. It was this combination of service and curriculum organizations that gave students an opportunity to work to¬ gether and to carry out their ideas. Each organization elected its slate of officers to plan and to complete the year’s projects. To assist and to offer advice, a teacher acting as an adviser to each organization helped in the supervision of the activities. Extracurricular activities provided an opportunity for a stu¬ dent to achieve personal satisfaction through work in an organ¬ ization. To gain experience from working together, to offer ser¬ vice, to accept responsibility — these were the reasons for form¬ ing the more than twenty extracurricular organizations. To publicize the Myers Park basketball game, school spirit committee member C. Guignard paints a large wall sign. Extracurricular Activities Broaden Scholars’ Horizons Fulfilling a Key Club responsibility, P. Schroeder and R. Sigmon help in the book room at the beginning of school. After the National Honor Society induction ceremony, new and old members lapse into animated conversation. Library Club member C. Hood stamps and approves books for borrowers B. Willocks, C. Stubbs, and B. Tucker.

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At the pancake supper sponsored by the Booster Club, Larry Graham satisfies his appetite by finishing his food. At the Red Cross Thanksgiving banquet, foreign exchange student Barbara Murlot samples a typically American meal. Student Life Represents a Continual Chain of Events An unending chain of events surrounded each student from the moment he entered for the first time until the moment he left for the final time at graduation. Included in this chain of events were the common experiences of each day and the special events of greater magnitude. Lunch, lockers, halls, tests, buses, laughter, work—these were the items which constituted a typical school day. Events such as pep rallies, dances, Senior Awards Day, the Junior-Senior Prom, Homecoming, and the barbecue amplified a typical day into a myriad of new experiences. It was in these days that scholastic achievement, individual accomplishments, and athletic success blended into the life of each student. At a pep rally Linda Payseur, Harry Hilewitz, Nancy Easterling participate in “This Is What Our Players Wear .. Pausing in hall, Beverly Huffstickler and Charles Guignard ponder the message presented in the morning devotion. 9