The pictures are as represented in the Woodrow Wilson High School, Portsmouth, Virginia yearbook or annual of the year indicated on the page. The Memory pictures may not be complete and pictures and names may have been removed by request of the person involved. Also, it does not offically indicate the year of graduation and/or that the party in question graduated. This section of the website is dedicated to the memories of all alumni and are found in personal items that alumni have saved and were kind enough to allow it to be shared with others. Thank You. If you are not represented in your class, or have other pictures for the memories section you may submit a photo to be added. John “Eddie” Lee ’68.
Woodrow Wilson
High School
Portsmouth, Virginia
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FRONT ROW: Duke Rollins; President. MIDDLE ROW: Beverly Greiner; Director of Publicity, Betty Ann Eure; Secretary. BACK ROW: Raymond Rowley; Treasurer, Barry Royall; Vice President.
From decoration of bulletin boards, Teacher and Freshmen orientation to Senior graduation, the SCA attempted and successfully completed numerous projects. These projects included, planning homecoming, Student Sch- olarship Fund, and a Christmas party for underprivileged children, as well as many others. The Student Cooperative Association (S.C.A.) has experienced an active and successful year. Their goal is Service.
LEFT ROW: Thomas Williams,
Wendy Wintes, Carol Topping.
RIGHT ROW: Kenny Matthew,
Crystal Hoggard; Typist, Raymond
Dale, Kelly Cary; Artist.
Looking forward to Friday, Junior Marshals Kelly Cary, Paula Yost and Becky Greiner rush not to be late.
Junior Marshals, Chrystal Hoggard, Linda Hinton, Kelly Cary, and Sara Stein greet students going in the door.
Taking time from their busy schedule, Sidney Spencer and Beverly Greiner converse.
FBLA Shines On The World
Hunting and pecking is not one of Mary Everette’s typing traits.
Jean Hammiel, Secretary; Tammy Matthews, Historian; Sharon Mason, Parliamentarian.
After a lot of hard work Mrs. Ridenour and Miss Herron bring home the first place bulletin board.
Receiving two awards for its program of activities was the highlight of the year for Future Business Leaders of America. A state Honor Chapter certificate and the national Gold Seal Award of Merit are now proudly displayed in the Business Education Department.
FBLA, with 150 members who met the third Wednesday of the month, concentrated on activities that increased business knowledge and skills as well as leadership and promotional, school and community service, financial, and social activities.
The first Saturday in March, 42 members par-ticipated in competitive events at the Portsmouth City-Wide Meet held at Manor High School. Later in
March, twenty of these individuals competed at the Regional Leadership Conference at Old Dominion University. In November the chapter was represen-ted at the Southern Regional Leadership Confer- ence in Little Rock, Arkansas. Several delegates attended the State Leadership Conference in Richmond in April. Activities calls attention to the local FBLA Chapter highlighted FBLA Week, February 12-18.
After running off a stencil, Lisa Howard ands Gayle Whitaker check for neatness.
Preparing for the FBLA competition Betty Ann Eure, types up her speech.
While checking for mistakes, Elizabeth Sunkins continues typing.
Presidents In A Bind
As vital members of the annual staff, George Kozak, David Foster, and Lisa Snead work hard to meet their deadlines.
While scanning through an old yearbook, Greg Vass looks for ideas.
After receiving a page from Ronald Boomer, David Foster displays a look of surprise.
The yearbook staff got off to a slow start because of lack of experience. With only three returning lettermen, the fine points of writing copy, thinking up captions, cropping pictures, dreaming up headlines and laying out pages had to be taught to eight fresh staffers. Working on the yearbook is by no means a way to get an easy letter. Staffers work sixth period everyday, before, during, and after school and sometimes even into the waning hours of the night. Because not enough yearbooks alone were sold to keep the yearbook in the black, the staff sold keychains, concessions, and advertisements.
In order to meet deadlines and keep Editor David Foster from having heart failure, rush jobs sometimes had to be. initiated. Unbelievable stories had been told about how things got done when the rush was on. Forty pages were turned in in one day amid corny jokes, stolen layouts, eaten pictures, rebelling typewriters, and staffers buried under tons of old copy sheets. Even with such utter devotion, sometimes, most of the times, deadlines were not met. And there were threats of not getting the book until next year.
Only time would tell whether the yearbook was received in reasonable time or not. Even with all the hassles, pains, turmoils, and pressures of producing a yearbook, the staff felt that the finished product would be worth all of the troubles. The staff hopes that all readers enjoy the yearbook as much as they did.
The President Staff
While looking over Mrs. Sweets shoulder, Wanda Boone and Andre Watson point out a mistake.
Typing diligently Lynn Rosser finishes her section.
As Teresa Lewis takes time out from her work to wink at the photographer, Lisa Cobb tries to keep a straight face.
Meet The Press
Working on layouts and copy, Sue Scott, Darlene Woodby, and Wanda Hartley put the "Student’ together.
While rushing to meet a deadline, Mrs. Beilhart and Tony Manzione work diligently.
FRONT ROW: Wanda Hartley, Dennis Bailet, Tony Manzione, Jan Sawyer. SECOND ROW: Dianna Carr, Sue Scott, Stephanie Manchur, Yvonne Faulks. THIRD ROW: Wilma Ricks, Beth Austin, Darlene Woodby, Raymond Rowley.
Under the direction of Mrs. Beilhart the Student Staff doubled its number of members from the previous year. While all of the staff were rookies and enrolled in Journalism, each had his own leadership position.
Headed by editor-in-chief, Jan Sawyer, and associate editor, Dennis Bailey, the staff set the goal of putting into print five editions of the school paper. Each issue featured a teacher and a student-of-themonth, results of a student survey on a Current issue, club activities, and the traditional Can You Imagine?
Another goal set by the staff was to earn enough money to pay for the publishing of the paper and still keep the Student’s assets out of the red. This goal was met through the sales of advertisements, doughnuts, and the newspaper itself.
Mr. Harry Williams, writer for the Ledger Star, was back for his third year to aid the Journalism class in the production of the school paper. Through his experience and knowledge of journalism, Mr. Williams helped the staff to produce a more professional paper.
Staff reporters included Wanda Hartley, Wilma Ricks, Tony Manzione, Yvonne Faulks, Beth Austin, Darlene Woodby, Diana Carr, Raymond Rowley, Stephanie Manchur, and Sue Scott.
