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

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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

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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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Young team racks up 5-5 season ' After those first wins, I thought we might be contenders. ' Only seven seniors on a 44-man squad meant a lot of young inexperienced players had to carry the ball for the Blue Comet football squad. At times they performed well; sometimes, though, they stubbed their toes. The Comets started practice in mid- August and the two-week training camp at Camp Pickett was tougher than ever before. The stubborn gridders had some¬ thing to prove to the public. Actually, the public did not give the Comets much hope for they called the ’72 season a “rebuilding year.” But the team wanted a winning season and they worked hard to get it. Practices were long and tough and some players could not take the punishment and quit, but the ones that stuck it out molded into a hard-nosed team. The first game found the Comets in Roxboro facing the always-tough Person County in the season’s opener. Hard pre¬ season practices paid off as they psyched- up Comets tore Person County, 22-8. With victory stars in their eyes and in optimistic sight of a winning season, the Comets roared over Parkview, 28-0. ft Varsity Football 1972 Season’s Record: 5-5 HCSH 22 Person County 8 HCSH 28 Parkview 0 HCSH 0 E.C. Glass 25 HCSH 28 Highland Springs 7 HCSH 6 Cave Spring 12 HCSH 20 Amherst 12 HCSH 59 Bluestone 0 HCSH 22 Martinsville 23 HCSH 8 George Washington 27 HCSH 6 Armstrong 21 Plowing toward the goal line in the early going of the Martinsville game, All Regional Russell Puckett (82) carries two defenders with him for a short gain. 16 Varsity Football