Woodrow Wilson High School - President Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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Foreword 1962 has been a memorable year in more ways than one. The cold war, which was still very much with us, was overshadowed by the excitement of the first United States man in orbit. Closer to home, we returned to school in September. 1961, and found21 additional class- rooms waiting for us. These were grouped in the new E section. In one of these rooms was set up, for the first time, a language lab which did much to further a nd improve teaching techniques. We also found on returning that the family group had been enlarged by some 200 Eighth Graders whom we had left behind in die old Wilson seven years ago. Th e first noticeable difference in the 1962 President is evident in die faculty section. We admit that die informal snaps of the faculty do not measure up to professional portrait standards. To make up for diis your staff felt that the use of current informal snapshots would make an interesting change. All the regular sections are again included, with some of them expanded due to increased interest in certain activities experienced during the school year. The staff is particularly proud of die divider pages which are a result of an, interesting experiment in trick photography. The excitement of a school year in general, and perhaps yours, too, is preserved within diese pages so that you may more easdv re- call die events and names of schoolmates in the years ahead.