Beall High School - Mountaineer Yearbook (Frostburg, MD)

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SITTING DOWN on the job. junior high lunch workers. Valerie Crowe. Pam Chaney. Darren Diaz, and Larry Beal take some time to recuperate before returning to the screaming seventh and eighth graders. OPENING Take it From here We were important; we knew it. the stage. Each of us had something to ofTer. Most of us got everything we needed The fact that we came in all sizes at Beall; others looked outside to the and shapes, that we ranged from ages vo-tech center, to the local colleges, or 12 to 19, and that we came from a to the job-experience program, variety of backgrounds brought diver- How we chose to spend the 1982- sity to our school community. 1983 school year was up to us. We each It took all 961 students and 61 staff had our own goals. Whether it was to members to make things happen from be chosen for honor society, to master eight to three. And sometimes, long Beethoven's fifth, to get a driver s li- after school was officially over, the cense, or just to scrape together a dol- happenings kept going-on the athletic lar for admission each of our lives fields, in the journalism rooms, and on was a string of big deals.

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GETTING TO KNOW THE STUDENTS. Superintendent of Schools Dr. William H. Mitchell shakes hands with Student Council President John Martirano. Dr. Mitchell and Principal James Preaskorn visited with yearbook staff members Leslie Klink, Kevin Kutler. and Ginny Dormer. L B««man Look out- Its us: In the westernmost part of the state of Maryland, nestled in the Alleghe- ny Mountains is a pocket of small towns Vale Summit, Zihlman, Fin- zel, Carlos, and the hub of activity, Frostburg. To outsiders the names seemed quaint; to us they were synonymous with rich memories of growing up. Built on the mountainside. Frost- burg is a small town, population 7,705. But 561 came from the other burgs to the one junior-senior high school Beall. All of us followed Main Street, old U.S. Route 40 that follows the 18th century National Road. We liked where we were. Everyone knew everyone else. It was friendly and comfortable. OPENING

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WHILE THE BAND BLARES the beat of Rod Stewart. Lea Hearndon and her date Mark Arnold let loose to the song Hot Legs. The band repeated many favorite songs and this was a top request. AT 6:30 MONDAY MORNING Li Sanford awakens and begins her daily routine. She sets her hair, applies her make-up. and gets dressed. Liz feels “a time sched- ule helps keep me on time. OPENING