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

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ij You and me. We were here and we’ve got the pictures to prove it. When you open a yearbook and see your friends arranged like so many ten-cent stamps, it’s much easier to remember the faces as they were in classes: smiling, yakking and looking out the window. Nobody likes his own picture, however, and we all live in constant fear of someone spotting that ridiculous image. There’s nothing you can do unless you personally censor 900 “Haliscopes.” There is a difference, of course, between our pictures and postage stamps. Probably none of your classmates wili ever be air mailed anywhere, and how many will ever be famous enough to have his face sold by the Post Office Department. We’re just you and me. Shakespeare said it first: “Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men.’’ He could have mentioned women, students, names with little numbers after them, business places that offer school support, some leftover pictures, colophons (what’s that?) and conclusions. What Mr. Shakespeare omitted we added. Even Will needs a little help every now and then. Opening 7

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you and me Corridor traffic jam. People conditions force everyone to rush and fill the stairwells during the be friends, saying hello to homeroom break. Crowded you and me. 6 Opening

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Even though trumpet blasts from the prom band and the shrieks of horror at the snake assembly were loud enough to pierce faculty eardrums, 1974 was, nevertheless, a quiet sort of year. Three-day school weeks in early September allowed students to pull tobacco two days a week. Five such “Tobacco Days” began 74 at a turtle’s pace. What was planned as a Fall Festival was unexpect¬ edly postponed and became the Spring Fair, which never materialized. Festivities at Christmas were cut out as snow closed school a week before Christmas vacation. But no Christmas meant no trees to undecorate and no Fair meant no tables to put away. Even a quiet sort of year is nice once in a while.