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

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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

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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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Glasses galore. Senior Kate Mapp shows that glasses can be attractive as well as useful. s Levi’s. T-shirts. Nearly every sophomore, junior and senior owned at least one pair of Levi’s (with the original tag) and several T-shirts for those drab Mondays when one hated to leave the bed. T-shirts were striped, solid with pictures or sayings on them, or just plain blue, plain pink, what¬ ever. Both guys and gals wore Dock- siders, Wallabys, Earth shoes, cowboy boots and, when hot enough, flip-flops. Of course, girls also wore Dr. Scholl sandals and platformed sandals. If a girl wanted a date for Saturday night, she wore knee-length skirts and dresses all week. Mini-skirts were out just as were go-go boots three years ago. The style was big dresses that looked like potato sacks and big pocket- books that carried everything from lunch to notes to books. To impress the girls, guys wore pull-over sweaters, jersey or western-cut shirts with jeans (Continued on page 15) T-shirt twosome. Many students wore T-shirts all year round Randy Knutti and Gary Lehew express themselves thr ough their choice of shirts CB ' s and no knees 12 Fads and fashions