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

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Suspended again? This possum, a springtime intruder, is unwillingly escorted off the school grounds by Elbert Pool. -J f I Sis And now from our sponsors. Larry Hill. Yolanda Gomes and Marvin Fallen discuss Talent Show commercials with directors Miss Cheryl Ferguson and Mr. Leon Palmer. Cutting class and crepe paper. Matt Skerl, Sandy Talbott, Donna Talbott, Charlotte Crews and Marshall Slayton hang streamers in prom day preparations. Student life divider 9

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Tradition plays a major role in any school’s operation and HCSH is no ex¬ ception. However, 1976 saw several time- honored events cancelled and others threatened. The Homecoming parade, a fall institution, was eliminated as school officials cited club apathy as the culprit. At Christmas, the Snow Ball followed the parade into the past as an early, unexpected start of Christmas vacation caused its cancellation. With the cuts in the state education budget came spring, bringing talk of no more extra-curricular activities and no prom. Somehow, this was averted and the crisis that united the entire student body was solved. Even with the noticeable absence, or almost absence, of these events, the handful of traditions remaining were enough to make the year one to remember. became the ‘almosts’

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Sweating pounds off. Varsity football assistant Ron Ramsey smirks while scouting two of his players in preseason practice. Summer meant preparation to the fall athletic teams. The Young and the Gifted. Beth Spencer, Terry Burkholder and Eva Dillard were selected among 425 other outstanding Virginia students to attend the 1976 Governor ' s School for the Gifted. CO C o o CO c Q) E OJ u X CD a; c o c o CO 03 D CO CO 03 The last bells on June 7 rang in the liberating season of summer. Stu¬ dents were now free for three months: free from book reports, science labs, algebra assignments and history tests. Their time could now be devoted to more important things: sleeping, swimming and sunning, catching up on “All My Children,” searching for something to do, “cruising” full time and simple lazy loafing. Vacations were taken to the usual beach, mountains, New York or New Jersey or almost anywhere to es¬ cape from Halifax County. Many people gave up their free time when they became trapped by the regimen of a job. The money was nice but some days it was more than a little hard to concentrate on work. As summer wore on, its novelty began to wear off. By the time school bells rang again on September 8, though no one truly American would admit it, some were actually glad to be back. 10 Summer activities