Clover Hill High School - Ducemus Yearbook (Midlothian, VA)

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Sharing energy and talent, the staff of The Clover Patch enthusiastically threw themselves into the job of preparing the third volume. The primary task was to raise the nec- essary funds. Cavalier bumper stickers, home-baked goodies, Dunkin’ Donuts, trick-or-treat bags, and subscriptions to The Clover Patch were some of the sun- dry items sold by the staff members. The largest fund-raising event was the annual Cavalier talent show. This year’s show combined talent with a Mess America chorus line of blushing charmers with bouffant hairdos and an ample padding of balloons in the appropriate places. The Northland Bluegrass Boys, Vernon Hughes and Billy Lux, took the fifteen- dollar first place and Roy Lee Dickerson, the country story-teller, won the ten-dol- lar second place. Putting the fund-raising aside during the second semester, the staff turned to the business of gathering and assembling material for Volume III. The award-win- ning Volume | and II had set.a challeng- ing precedent which spurred the staff on to prepare the final paste-up in order to have the magazine camera ready and to save enough money to pay for the twelve extra pages added to Volume III. Since this was our nation’s bi- centennial year, the theme selected for The Clover Patch revolved around a ba- sic American Characteristic—sharing. Lit- erature which dealt with friendship and incidental living, both serious and hu- morous, was enhanced by art portraying the warm relationships of people unsel- fishly giving to one another. It was with this spirit of giving and sharing that the staff members prepared Volume III of The Clover Patch for publication. Scissors ’‘n Glue Literary Magazine (above left, alternating—left to right) Terry Rudd, Vicky Kesler, Judy Blevins, Judy Cook, Suzanne Collins, Rhonda Ingram, Debbie Ri- gali, Buddy Damerel, Suzanne Landon, DeAnn Redman, Mark Longest, Melissa Graham, Billy At- kins, Alan Thompson, Greg Turner. Torture Cham- ber? (left) Mrs. Mary Jo Lux points out an error to Buddy Damerel, editor. Nifty Fifties (top right) Clover Patch staff members dress the parts on 50’s Day and pose against a ’47 Chevrolet. They are Vickie Price, Margie McDonald, Terry Rudd, Alan Thompson, Greg Turner, DeAnn Redman, Melissa Graham, Buddy Damerel, Suzanne Landon, Linda True, Rhonda Ingram, and Beverly Gibson. Get off my case ... Melissa Graham, Billy Atkins, and DeAnn Redman put down wax over the paste-ups of the '76 edition of the Clover Patch Clover Patch 17

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Seek and Find (far right) Ms. Terry Dryer, and newspaper members look over the ad section in the Cavalier Review. Wow, Man! Scott Reams looks over Ms. Terry Dryer’s journalism bulletin beard Newspaper (front row) Christy Grant, Suzanne Landon, Debby Weston, Kathy Ellett, Gina Wing- field, Diana Hubble, Robin Fields, Lynn Bales; (back row) Jody Rawley, Greg Turner, Buddy Damerel, Eric Hartman, Dan Hubbard, Howard Jamison, Scott Reams, Ms. Terry Dryer. 16 Cavalier Review In years past at Clover Hill, the news- paper was relatively nonexistent. In the first three years of Clover Hill’s existence, the Free Lance Gazette produced four issues. 1975-76 brought with it a new ad- visor, Ms. Terry Dryer, who was impor- ted specifically for the purpose of teach- ing students how to produce a newspaper. The staff consisted of stu- dents who had little or no newspaper ex- perience, but had signed up for the credit anyway. The first thing the staff had to do was to put out an issue which would help gain some respect for the newspaper. They did that on September 12, 1975. Three weeks later there was no such thing as the Free Lance Gazette, as the new Cavalier Review came off the presses. The Cavalier Review gave the students behind the scenes reports and news on events that students might oth- erwise miss. Despite the expected pratfalls and pit- falls, the Cavalier Review established it- self and is now a mainstay that stands | beside the Ducemus and Clover Patch in the great tradition of Clover Hill publications.

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New Staff From The Ground Up! The ‘76 Ducemus staff had a problem. Only two of the twenty-two staff mem- bers had ever had any yearbook experi- ence. Even the two co-sponsors, Mr. Loye Kittle and Mrs. Joyce Roberts, were neophytes when it came to yearbooking. For such a lack of experience training was necessary. So even before school let out in ’75, the ’76 staff was out washing cars to raise money to send some of its members to a workshop. In June five staff members went to the Virginia Year- book Camp in Blue Ridge, Va., where they got their first taste of what it took to produce a yearbook. The long hours spent writing copy, designing layouts, and developing pictures were prophetic of the year to come. The real workshop, however, proved to be the school year when problems not ever anticipated in the summer and fall “brain storming” sessions (which in retrospect seemed terribly naive) had to be dealt with. The hard work and long hours required to produce the '76 edi- tion of the Ducemus boiled down the twenty-two member staff to a small number of dedicated workers who saw the book through to completion. What?! More Cheerleaders?! (above) is what Ken Roberson must be thinking as he studies another roll of basketball negatives. Quiet? Artist At Work (top) Charles Blankenship uses his artistic talents to complete the artwork for one of the Ducemus’ division pages. What Next? (middle) Mr. Loye Kittle, yearbook advisor, ponders where to fit the copy as Carl Straw and Charles Blankenship look on. Check your facts (right) Brenda Capen points out a mistake in a story to Greg Turner and the editor Alan Thompson. How do you spell . . .? Sherry Montgomery proofreads stories and captions carefully before okaying them to be sent in for printing. 18 Ducemus