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

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And what did you do this year? Of course you learned, but what did you do? Oh, yeah. Well, the Topsy-Turvy Dance, the Christmas Dance and the Junior-Senior Prom were kind of nice. Homecoming was wet, though. Shame we lost. The Fall Festival was okay, until you got Sports provided a lot of excitement with the Comets going to the state basketball tournament. With Coach Thompson in his first year of coaching here, the Big Blue pushed its way to second place in the state. Almost made it; see what happens next year. New Orleans was the site of the Mardi Gras and This is what we did locked in the stocks and got Coke in your hair. Wish the Club Days had been more exciting. The Science Fair was downright lonely; they didn’t even have anybody there for a third prize in chemistry. May Day and Class Day weren’t bad, but most people would watch a chess tournament rather than go to class. a fourth-place performance by the band. In addition to miles of marching at practice, the band walked from Halifax Courthouse to South Boston to raise $2000 to help finance the trip. More went on than lectures and homework and not all activities worked out. But don’t worry, our spot was left intact but more lived in. Coming events are announced on the front lawn school marquee by Janet Bradley and Katherine Powell. Walkathons were big this year so band members marched to the tune of $2000 for the Mardi Gras trip. Cheering fans followed the Comets to the state basketball tourney, the big ’73 event for “our spot.” May Day gymnastics by Pauline Conner amuse the crowd as Miss Ayers stands by to help. This is what we did 11

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Summer goes too fast 7 met the cutest boy at O. D. this summer. ' Summer: it is the season which seems to go the quickest. It is three months long just like all the rest of the sea¬ sons but for students it is filled with so many activities that they never know that one fourth of a year has gone. It seems that each year of school gets a little longer and the summer shorter. One day the bell rings and all the stu¬ dents rush out shouting “Hooray, school is out!” and they seem to have time for so little before that bell is ringing again and it is back to the books. But before the September bell rings there is that special time. A time to be free and do whatever you please. June week at Ocean Drive where you met the one you will be telling your friends about all winter. A time to attend sports clinics, cheerleading camps, SCA conferences or any number of meetings to help you improve and be just a little better next year. And getting up at 7 o’clock so you can make the 8 o’clock bell at summer school in order to take government or world history so you will have room on your fall schedule for band or journalism. Watching the Watergate hearings occupied a lot of time and Ervin, Baker, Dean, et al., became as familiar as the “As the World Turns” family. Night life is filled with going to ballgames, movies and, maybe, moonlight drives to Danville or foozeball. Cook- outs and riding around at Hardees and just meeting friends. Summer: a time that ends all too quickly with buying sweaters, graph paper and a paperback copy of “Look Homeward, Angel” for that first book report. Summer: where does it go? Studying history is the pastime of Mamie Tucker and Mercedes De Shazo at summer school. Sunning and reading will do when swimming gets boring for Bonnie Adkins at the city pool.