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

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After school silhouettes. With no stream ol trailic filling the halls, students walk calmly to the parking lot to catch their rides home. Student Life Divider 9

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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.

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5 Tall tales. Stories grow and grow when Edward Owens tells his friends of his New Jersey summer experiences. Summer sun ... brings time for work, la zy leisure Summertime laziness just would not go away for students and teachers when school started. Daydreaming about the summer vacations was the reason. The summer had been filled with free time for some. Those with free time enjoyed soaking up the sun or watching the never-ending list of daytime soap operas. The “Young and the Restless” became the favorite of everyone. So at r Oon one could find his friends glued to the tube. . Some students were not so lucky. They had to spend their time working. Students were employed at various part-time jobs such as clerking at Leggett’s, Fuller’s or Guy Faris’s Men’s Shop, working in tobacco or waiting on tables at one of the local restaurants. Teachers were deviating from their winter professions during the summer. Some found themselves lifeguarding at various town pools. There were those who taught summer school but many found themselves teaching in an entirely different field. Summer. It’s too short but fun while it’s here Soap opera devotees. Janet Bradley and Lally Lacy take in one more episode of “The Young and the Restless,” before going to the pool. K 10 Summer