Lake Braddock Secondary School - Lair Yearbook (Burke, VA)

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FREEDQ D DF 5PJ3CE Lake Braddock’s open classrooms were cast in a different mold than the conventional structured classrooms. The non-existent walls provided unlimited space with no boundaries that confined you to a certain area. No longer did you have to be firmly seated at a desk. Students plopped down, propped themselves against the walls, and worked in an open and relaxed atmosphere. Finding comfort in midsir, David Lynch and Matt McKenna do their studying in A.C. Wow, look at this place! There’s enough space here to bury a million bones! Some people might call this chaos, but at L.B. students call it independ¬ ence! Mr. Hills explains to Diane Webb and Julie Trippe how to give an oral presentation. A student finds a quiet place to concentrate. Student Life 21

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During sixth period, Cindy Kelly and Mr. Piernick discuss German. Mr. Kramer explains to Cortney Hicklin a physics problem, Student Life 20 In our large school, teacher-student relationships were important. A student was more to a teacher than a name in a rollbook. He was a person with whom the teacher could relate and openly share ideals. Lake Braddock’s teachers were always willing to lend a sympathetic ear. T. A. was an example of how rapport was developed between teachers and students. T.A. was a time during the day to socialize, take it easy, and do homework which should have been done the night before. Fun within the T.A. group was not only confined to school hours. Many groups enjoyed going places, such as Kings Dominion, bowling, and ice skating with their T.A. group. The generation gap was seldom seen at Lake Braddock because there was a mutual give and take. Dr. Manning has a man to man talk with Clinton Jeftries. Mr. Hills tells it like it is to his T.A.

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One of the highlights for Barbara Theimer is the traditional L.B. pizza. Deciding to pass up a L.B. hot lunch, Mike Dougherty brings his own. The empty trays from the final lunch shift await a trip to the trash com¬ pactor. IM ' S AT Naming our eating and meeting place, the word cafeteria was just giving the word “lunchroom a bit of class. To some of the newer students, its size was remarkable. Due to the number of new students, there were some problems in the cafeteria; such as waiting in the endless lunch lines which could have been compared to waiting in the automobile gas lines of the previous year. After buying one of the “delicious” lunches, students found a lack of seats in the cafeteria and many had little time to eat and make it back to class. Among the favorite lunches made by Ms. Phyllis Rademacher and her hardworking cafeteria ladies were spaghetti and pizza. It seemed students had an excellent taste for Italian food. After eating one of the delicious lunches, some of the students found it time consuming to throw away their trays. If it weren’t for the custodians, the entire cafeteria would have been knee-deep in trays. It seemed as if inflation hit everywhere . . . ice cream even went up to twenty cents each. The cafeteria was one of the busiest and favorite places in the school. 22 Student Life