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

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Q No matter how smoothly a year is designed to flow, happenstances always seem to crop up. Teachers were con¬ stantly gritting teeth and assigning makeup work for students whose activities usurped regular class time. Aside from the usual effort put out on bulletin boards and sports teams “cutting” classes, some groups arranged longer trips. Would you believe Rome and San Francisco? With other surprises such as student teaching and cancelled exams, the year seemed to crawl a little faster. wSSn’t all routine 4 Opening California Jam. Journalism San Francisco as they strove to swap a students ventured to The Cannery Southern drawl for a little courtyard on Fisherman’s Wharf in Western culture.

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With the end of summer, students waded through the heat, back to classes. The school year had a halting start with three-day weeks as a “tobacco holiday.” Nobody seemed really bothered or rushed as the students sauntered from class to class like a slow-rolling denim wave. Occasionally the current shifted and the gym filled with bobbing heads watching singers or snake men. The school year was on, but who really noticed? 2 All the usual sports were back, but some new faces began appearing in the “Star” sports pages as girls’ sports suddenly came into their own. In their first year, the female cagers faced tough competition against the established teams of such schools as E.C. Glass and George Washington. Both girls’ track and gymnastics placed second in the Western District and the lovely ladies on the tennis courts actually won three matches. Football (no girls, however) produced a season little different from the year before. In another encore, Coach Thompson again led his Big Blue to the state basketball tourney, only to be beaten by the same team as the previous year. few firsts, number of repeats

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! A energy “Clubs got off to a great start, so what happened?” With the beginning of the year everything seemed fine with the clubs. Club day was held with its traditional first period schedule, and plans were made for Homecoming and the Fall Festival. Little did we know that the Homecoming parade was, for clubs, little more than a funeral procession. After the cancellation of the Fall Festival for a basketball practice game which never materialized, the energy crisis put the death blow to clubs for the year. Still, not everyone was stopped by the lack of Arab oil as one group, resurrected from the Youth For Christ, grew in strength with lunchtime prayer meetings and a religious rock concert. Opening 5