Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Indescribable Emotion, Pressures Highlighted Life of 385 Freshmen By Jack Crews David Morgan, portraying Super Surgeon in the Fresh¬ man Assembly, is carried by his assistants into the operating room. Carole Trope was crowned Miss HCHS during the SCA Spring Fair. In the swing of Topsy Turvy, Linda Shelton chases Ronnie Pate. 14 Steve Connor and Sammy Comer learn the techniques of welding in the agriculture shop.

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Mr. William Owen lectures his sophomores on English grammar. 13

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really felt bad about them; but there seemed to be an unknown force compelling them to forget about the books and concentrate on the car. There were, of course, colorful moments in a freshman ' s life. This was the year in which we gained self-confidence and felt at ease with the in group of upperclassmen. We also had the remarkable experience of being able to look down on a class. We were vet¬ erans; we told the eighth graders what to do; they did it. We experienced the gay moments of Topsy- Turvy and the class assembly. Many freshmen experienced a feeling of hope just before the Junior-Senior Prom—hope that we might be able to attend this gala affair with a junior or senior. By attending this dance we proved to the school that we were really in with the crowd. Surely our freshman year was one of many rewards, but we are looking forward to the next year and the year after that and the year after that, because we know that our freshman year was the beginning of an adven¬ ture worth remembering. The life of a freshman during the 1964-65 term had many interesting events. As usual, it contained pressures as well as high points in our lives, but it also contained a type of in¬ describable emotion or feeling. On the first day of school, we sat in our homerooms tense with fear. We feared that we might not get the teacher that we wanted because we knew a tough year was ahead of us; and depending on the teacher, we might not enjoy it. Most of us enjoyed those first few days, meeting old friends and making new friends; but we all knew that play would soon end and we would start in on the old grind of schoolwork. For most of us, the grind began too early, far too early, but we went along with it. As each six week ' s period passed, we all felt that the weeks were growing longer and our aca¬ demic pressures mounting. -Not only that, this was the year in which we came of age to re¬ ceive our driving permits. Receiving our per¬ mit was like giving a baby an opened bottle of arsenic. Some students got carried away with the new toy ; consequently, their grades dropped. These students, many of whom were aware of their languid grades, 15