Williston High School - Willistonian Yearbook (Wilmington, NC)

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MRS. KEITH MISS HOOPER MR. LOWE MR. HASSELL MRS. TELFAIR Social Stu eh i es enactment A knowledge of the customs, achievements, and beliefs of America is definitely beneficial and required of students. Through the teachers of the Social Stu¬ dies Department, they receive this knowledge that enables the students to understand and have compar¬ able ideas toward the world in which they live. World History, American History, Government, Family Life , and Sociology are the subjects which provide them with this knowledge. The students and teachers in the Department are enlightened by their understanding of their social, political, moral, and economic problems. MR. WALKER MRS. WILLIAMS MR. HAWKINS

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As mathematics is a part of everyday life, we must keep its light forever burning. Mathematics is an exact science in which there can be no mistake. The Different courses of mathematics range from General Math, which is at the base of the flame, up to Trigonometry, which is at the top of the flame. Our math teachers try to instill upon us the basic principles of math so that we will be able to grasp any form of this subject without too much difficulty. Science ( ' 211 athematics The scientific ray from the flame of knowledge touches the students in one form or another. The forms of the ray are Physical Science, General Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and Advanced Biology. The instructors of this department offer material which gives the basic principles.

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[Physical Education (Department To assure the students that they will be phys¬ ically able to continue the flame of knowledge into the future, the Department of Physical Edu¬ cation strives to develop their physical capacities. Since physical fitness is necessary and the late President Kenned} 7 encouraged it, the phys¬ ical education program consists of: conditioning exercises, marching, stunts and tumbling, team sports, track, field activities, and dance. The Physical Education Department attempts to develop each student to his greatest possible skill and to improve the organic development within the range of accepted educational ob¬ jectives. COACH CORBIN AND MISS BLOUNT JCitt ary Books and good reading serve to satisfy the eternal intellectual carv¬ ings of manhood. The torch—the in¬ centive to learn—must be instilled in the life of a child. This is primarily the responsibility of educators and must be forever developed by them. A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more to life it¬ self. It may be translated into every language and not only read but actually breathed from all human lips—not to be presented on canvas or in marble only to be carved out of the breath of life itself. MRS. TODD