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

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Gatsby look scores high in spring 7s she pregnant or is that just one of those fashion smocks she ' s wearing today? ' “Hey! Where’d ya get your baggies?” “Why are all the girls wearing maternity tops?” Questions such as these were fre¬ quent as students changed their blue jean, T-shirt, “tenny pump” ways to fads and fashions. It seemed as if Daisy or Gatsby him¬ self had come to life as students revived “The Great Gatsby” era with high waisted, cuffed baggies, thick soled saddle ox¬ fords, high-heeled boots and wide bow ties worn with sweater vests and wide lapel jackets. Tall slender girls with ruby red fingernails portrayed the Gatsby era when they strutted down the halls in six-inch platform shoes, wearing sweater vests with baggies or flaired skirts. Braids all day — Afro all night became the new thing for blacks. For the first time black male students could be seen bopping around the school with braids. It wouldn’t have been shocking to later see the same guy with a monsterous Afro. The “doll baby” image was a new thing as girls began wearing frilly smock tops which resembled maternity tops. Students would typically comment on smock tops, saying something such as “with those smock tops being so stylish a girl could be pregnant and no one could suspect . . .” “What’s this generation coming to?” a teacher would reply. 14 Fads and Fashions

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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.

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It’s the young Jay Gatsby! No, it’s Walter Lantz, a man of the seventies in the twenties clothing and with the roadster all ready to go. Jewelry and makeup were popular with girls like Mamie Plenty who wanted to keep up with the fashion. Braids on dudes are not a cause for smirks. Ricky Sydnor and Norman Hendricks know that braids make Afros bush out. Fads and Fashions 15