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

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r RECOMMENDED: • Get complexion cleared before senior pictures. • Find out what your brother did for his term paper two years ago. • Find a job. NOT ADVISED: • Shorting out an Senior shades. Sunshine brought out sun glasses at the Class Day Assembly. Don Lowery, Rodney Long, Joan Lowery, Mark Long, Mike Lowery, Monty Lowery and Stanley Lowery listen as award winners are announced. electronics kit in physics. • Playing chicken in the parking lot. • Skipping school to watch ' The Young and the Restless. L. 1 You made it. By the time the seniors read this, they hopefully will be moving on. Congratulations? For just barely sliding by the last six weeks? For cutting class? For carving an obscene statement on the desk top? For learning? The seniors learned; they had to. English, art , party spots. French, home ec., county roads. Algebra, band, telephone numbers. The diploma shows that the graduate has successfully lived through twelve years of report cards, but then what happens? No one spends his whole life in high school as a student. As the year progresses, the senior finds himself being prepared to be pushed on. Despite the bold, loud talk and the parties of celebration, many find it a little frightening to leave the shelter of being a high school student. Admit it, now. In English, DE classes or special assemblies, the senior hears how to conduct one ' s self in a job interview. In government the senior is lectured on the responsibility of the voters in running the government. Time may have varied speeds, but only one direction. As the graduate ' s life moves forward, he is expected to leave some things behind. What he leaves and what he takes... well, the guidance people are paid to worry.

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Work and play. During breaks in the action at a tennis match, Terrie Weaver and Barbara Cage get a jump on their next day ' s geometry. EVERY DAY: Try to get an excused absence from Mrs. Penick (and see what happens). EVERY WEEK: See if your hot dog bun looks familiar from the previous week. EVERY SIX WEEKS: • Get grounded for report cards. EVERY SEMESTER: • Brag to friends in other schools about your lack of exams - ■ ■■ HEapt i Rail birds. Junior marshals Ed Owens and Frank Godbold wait to lead out seniors during graduation practice.

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Pre-game lull. Baby sitting was the job Harry Morris got roped into while he waits for time to change into his varsity togs for the home Patrick Henry basketball game. Larry Scott finds the wait before preparing for his appearance on the court to be dull. Slow day. Hall monitoring on the administrative floor during sixth period gives Dale Hardie a chance to catch up on that English homework. L