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

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Most HCHS students ride the big yellow school bus to and from school. Boarding the bus at right are Rosalee Owen, James Lacy and Tommy Yates. Peering out of the dirty back window at far right are Linda Snead, Mary Guill, Dianne Ferrell, James Lacy and Tommy Yates. At bottom, students pass time on the bus in various ways—socializing, primping and thinking. Students emergency door

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recipe for individualism For a sophomore to be named to the All-Western District football team is a singular honor. Bill Maxwell did it and at the All-Sports Banquet, pictured above with Coach Bill Morning- star, he walked off with so many trophies he had a hard time carrying them. Achievements surely denote individualism. “Bon vivant.” It’s the correct term for Jack Clement, a lover of life and all the many pleasures it offers. With his love of life also goes a sense of responsibility to his school, family and church. He often meets his friends with a smile and his arms stretched out to the sky. “Here I am,” he seems to be saying. Indeed he was there, wherever he was needed. The many charitable acts of Mrs. Lois Swanson will never be fully recorded; she is not a lady to make a big show. But her many kindnesses are there nevertheless and they will always be remembered by her students and the citizens of Halifax County. A member of the original faculty inl953, Mrs. Swanson retired this summer. She was a lady of compassion and understanding and that’s what great teaching is all about. 7

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find daily bus rides can be fun, dull, tiresome The bus ride to and from school every day is a major part of almost every student’s life. Ninety per cent of the student body takes advantage of the free transportation provided by the School Board. Many people spend more than an hour on buses every day, some traveling as many as 35 miles one way. Every school-day morning students wait patiently for the 30 buses that come from all parts of the county. In the dead of winter the waiting groups can be seen clapping their hands together to keep warm. The wait is not so unpleasant in the spring and fall months, unless a shower begins to fall. Then students run for shelter until they see the big yellow bus. On the bus students hurry to find a seat before it begins to move again. Lurching with each gear, the bus moves on, sometimes throwing students into seats which have already been taken. Four students to a seat is the rule set down by the School Board. The lucky ones who have seats pass the time talking, joking and occasionally doing some homework. Crowds of people swarm in from the bus parking lot every morning and swarm back every afternoon at 3:10. They trudge home from the bus stops later in the afternoon. Individuals become part of a group every time they enter the bus and help with the team effort of getting to and from school. The 25 student bus drivers band together to make rules and to help each other whenever a bus stalls. V i« » Every afternoon after school students hurry to the bus parking lot where talking, joking and sometimes studying on their long way home from they board the proper buses. Many of them spend as much as an hour on school, the bus each day, traveling more than 60 miles. They spend the time 9