Anonymous Senior Looks Forward (?) To Future Freedom
Well, what do you know? Just seven more days and Wilson opens its gates to free one more group of rampaging Seniors.
Sound the alarm, call out the Coast Guard, alert the Navy — the Wilson Class of '66 is storming the beaches. Never before has the school succeeded in producing such an educated group of beach bums.
Under the dignified caps and gowns and the harmonious sound of our class song lies an inner dwelling that is longing for escape.
Now we will experience freedom and liberty. Freedom to get sunburned and the liberty to sleep late. Freedom to avoid the library and the liberty to forget all we have learned in the past four years.
Yes, graduations is here — HELP!!
ANIMATED IDEAS. Senior Class advisor Miss Kanela May- "I came this far from losing my temper" . . . "Well, I wouldn't
danis is caught by the camera animating a variety of ideas say that" . . ."You've got to get the jump on things" . . .
during a recent interview. Successively, she seem to be saying"Ah, Friday. I'll be glad when it gets here."
Class Advisor "Rides Herd" On Seniors
"The Mad Greek rides again!"
"The Mad Greek" is the affectionate term Seniors have attached to their busy class advisor, Miss Kanela (Kay) Maydanis, and come next Friday and Commen-cement Exercises, she will have finished "riding herd" on some 363 graduating seniors.
"I have enjoyed working with the students this year, even though there were occasional minor difficulties," Miss Maydanis said.
Miss Maydanis, who is head of the Distributive Education Department, attended the University of North Carolina and received her Batchelor of Science degree from Richmond Professional Institute.
As Senior Class advisor, the vibrant young lady has had the responsibility of handling most of the class' activities, including ordering announcements and calling cards, practicing for marching in
selecting a class song, and making arrangements for the class play.
The banquet, baccalaureate exer cises, and the commencement program are three very special items which have occupied much of Miss Maydanis' time. She has had to arrange for the choosing of commencement speakers and to organize the giving of gifts to the graduates from various local merchants.
"There have been no real big problems," the advisor stated, "and the small ones we have easily overcome."
With reference to the Senior Class, the educator said that she felt they were "a good group." She complimented the class as being "alert, bright."
As a word of advice to next year's Senior Class advisor, Miss Maydanis said, "Just get to work early on the various projects, and
above all, don't accept any other tasks. I don't have time for anything else."
The sponsor said she wanted to thank all the Senior Class officers for their aid this year. She was particularly grateful to Janet Blow, Linda Bishop, and Linda Stallings, who have served as sixth period secretaries during the year.
She credits Joe Mayes, Senior Class president, with being "ex tremely helpful." Miss Maydanis remarked, "Without this young man, the accomplishments of the class as a whole could not have been achieved."
In turn, Joe Mayes expressed his feelings by saying, "It has been quite a pleasure and an experience to work with 'The Mad Greek.' "
Miss Maydanis re-iterated her admiration and appreciation for the seniors' cooperation, and, when asked if she would like to
be Senior Class advisor again sometime in the future, she re plied, "Maybe in three or four years . . . after I've had time to recuperate!"
1966 Senior
Class Song
Composer Creech
Do You Know These Seniors ?
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To the tune of "The Street Where You Live" from My Fair Lady by A. J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe
Words by Senior Barbara Creech
I have often walked down these halls before,
But the tile has always stayed beneath my feet before.
All at once am I several stories high
Knowing it's graduation day.
How the time has flown. Oh, we hate goodbyes;
For we now must put our happy high school days aside.
Many memories we will take with us
On this graduation day.
And oh this wonderful feeling
Knowing now we're out on our own.
This over powering feeling of learning much and
learning more in years to come.
Freshmen stop and stare,
They don't bother me,
Cause I know that what I am is what they'd like to be.
Let the time go by for I know I
Will return on my homecoming day.
BACK OF THE HEAD GAME
Try your skill at identifying these prominent WWHS Seniors. You may be surprised at who they are. For correct answers, see Page Six.
Our Man
Kemper
Without the skill and artistic ability of STUDENT Photography Chief Kemper Miller, the graphic portion of this newspaper would be doomed to mediocrity. Virtually all the photographs used in THE STUDENT over the past two years were taken, developed, printed, reduced, enlarged, lightened, darkened, and on and on and on, by Our Man Kemper. To him goes full credit for many of the photographic ideas employed in the paper, including the sequence shot at the top of this page and the full page picture of the Senior Class on Page Ten. Kemper's work was recognized last June when one of his pictures that appeared in THE STUDENT won for him and the school the Tidewater Photographers Association's Award for the Best Picture in a High School Publication.
What more can we say? We shall miss our photographer who graduates this year. While recognizing our loss, we wish him the best of luck in his future plans and know that whatever he does, success will come to Our Man Kemper.
