The new GHS Cafe
(Imaging by R K Puma)

rk@rkpuma.com

As most of us in the north end of Norfolk are aware, old GHS completed a $24 million renovation project begun in 1996. Our parents went there, we go there now and/or our kids do.

The hallowed portraits on brick have found their new places and you can almost hear strains of "We don’t need no education..."  --In speaking with the most current portrait subject (unidentified here for our protection) I’m told to call downtown for clearance, for “electronic media” releases.

That's understandable, since it’s moving day and the titanic preparation must take precedence over my gnat-like intrusion. But isn’t it in the Hard Knox U curriculum that you go ahead and "Just Do It" because it’s easier apologizing after-the-fact than begging in the first place?

Though GHS seemed unplugged for a time (August 98) it was only weeks away from being wired; going into overtime/double-crewed and double-sized to be ready for returning students with new gym, labs, systems.

This present student body appears to be much brighter than those past. What with a famous ahtletic shoe firm’s support, new laptops for the teachers, world-wide information in every classroom (modems screeching instead of the wobbly, spinning globes we had) seems the current crowd is getting what they deserve, for being so much smarter.

Real fortitude:
Part XV OV's Survivors