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

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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

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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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Sea of tobacco. The chief product and job provider of Halifax County seems to swallow James Gray Duffie and his horse as they prepare another year ' s crop. Left foot, right foot. Six anxious girls try out for majorettes while last year s members watch and assist. The drill corps was chosen early to get a head start on the year ' s practice. The milkman cometh. Sterling Edmunds, a summer milkman for the Blue Ribbon Creamery, stocks one in a long line of dairy cases at Big Star. Time out. In the heat of summer, Judy Allen finds her backyard a good place to put her feet up and relax. Grease monkey? Anne Benassi answered a want ad for someone who looked good in a skirt and ended up washing windshields and pumping gas at Centerville Texaco. Summer activities 11