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

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Students do care: 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 19 Budget balancing. At a special assembly, Dr. L. M. Venable and students discuss problems concerning the proposed budget cuts. Worried look. The new budget cuts were the topic of discussions and debates among students. Marshall Slayton and Joe Exum discuss the topic before Journalism I class begins. 6 Opening: Budget Cuts

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176 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 1976 19761976 197 Acting farmer. History was made for women ' s lib as Mary Seamster was the first girl ever to join the FFA club. Mary, active in drama, tried out for the spring production. Top lady. Senior Regina Morton leads the way as the girls dominated class offices. All the presidents were girls. Man’s world no more Pink overcame blue as the 1975 International Year of the Woman crept into 1976 causing an obvious change in the senior high system. In the overall spectrum, females outnum¬ bered males in the school’s enrollment; and women headed all three classes, all three major publications and the marching band. “Bold” took the place of “traditional” as girls entered new areas of competition. In the world of sports, one girl set the pace for female runners on a previously all-male indoor track team, and the baseball team almost gained a diamond doll. Green thumbs do not always grow upon male hands as another female proved when she joined the Future Farmers of America and worked to win contests. She did too. Men had better get to work or accept the change because “It’s a man’s world” is quick¬ ly becoming a forgotten statement. Opening: The Women 5

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1976 1976 1976 1976 197619761976 1976 19761976 1976 1! The budget cut capers If there was ever apathy here, it completely disappeared this fall as students united to fight the cutback in extracurricular activities threatened by a decrease of state school funds. Petitions were circulated and sent to the school board. A few students even threatened a walk-out, so Dr. Venable called an assembly of all students to “calm them down.” Another effect of the budget cut was that no substitute teachers were hired; regular teachers filled in during planning periods. As it turned out, these “new” substitutes were the only noticeable effect of the cutback. The threat to cut activities disappeared, but the fact that the students can and do care about their school was apparent. Serious faces, serious business. Mr James Edmunds, a member of the Board of Supervisors, explains the board ' s position and the effects of the budget cut to an anxious body of SCA representatives. ifiii§ Built-in substitutes. Mrs. Mary Davis (above) and Mrs Elizabeth Brade fill in for absent science and business teachers when the budget cut prohibited the hiring of substitute teachers. Opening: Budget Cuts 7