Oak Grove High School - Hornet Yearbook (North Little Rock, AR)

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J 1 il ' fu W W-1 - ,K j , ..- 3' U Tammy Strozyk Mike Sullivan Scott Telfer Johnny Tew Rebecca Trice Bo Turchi Tommy Tumer Tammy Utley Stephane Warren Brian Washington Stacy Watson Andy Watts Karen Whitworth Dewayne Wickliffe Kim Wickliffe Melinda Wilkerson Joe Wright Jenny Yielding Tanya Yielding Carla York This group is often seen in the patio. Tardies don't worry them as long as they can talk and gossip. Freshmen 4 5

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Dale Reining T-Ray Rester Cassandra Rochon Amanda Rose Shelley Russell Rodney Sandefure Debbie Scholtz Danny Scott Shawn Schaffer Christopher Sheesley Stephan Sheppard Scott Shrigley Charles Snyder Douglas Staneart Amber Stamper Jerry Stark Jonathan Stephens Shanna Stephens Merle Stewart Chris Stratton Tracy Stroncek f ' c,.. .,, 2 ,, A: ff i5 groupies people in the potio The bell rang and the stam- pede began to rush toward the patio. Why did a lot of the freshmen go to the patio between periods? Everyone just started doing it, so I went along too, commented Mel- issa Hayden. Freezing weather or rain could only slow the freshmen down when it came to congregating in the patio and talking. Many students just wanted to go and talk to friends. Others had to pick up last night's ho- mework or ask about that test they had next period that their friend had just taken. In pretty weather others found using the patio to go to classes a. hard thing to do. Freshmen seemed to take to the patio by storm. Several students found out the hard way that staying in the patio got them in trouble if they were tardy often enough. With seconds left they ran to class and made it or had that last tardy that meant going home for a couple of days. Whether to have extra time to talk or deal with schoolwork, fresh- men were found in the patio.

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their own little world the one thot columbus didn What a day. I flunked another one of Mrs. Steele's math tests, my dad left for work without giv- ing me a ride to school and my moth- er expects me to miss the basketball game Thursday night to work on my homework again. I need a break! Most teenagers probably foiuid themselves in this type of situation many times during the course of the year. It can be helpful to have a place where one can go to get away from it all. Favorite get aways included the library, a treehouse, one's room, and the park. Sometimes when I have just had it - when it's been one of those days - and I can't get up and leave the class I'm in, I put my pencil down and pull my shirt over my eyes, Nancy Donham said when asked where her place to get away from it all was. If I can, my room is where I prefer to go. Someplace where no one else is. Be it my room or even a cor- ner in a quiet hall during class. I just like to be alone, said Missy Pharr. Students who didn't have a place to escape to often found re- lease in other activities. By putting their thoughts into writing in dia- ries, poems, journals, and letters to t discover friends, some eighth graders found escape from the daily grind. By plugging in earphones, stu- dents shut out the noises that they didn't Want to hear. Still others es- caped into a good book. They found their places. They had their spots, and they must have worked, because they made it through all the one-of-those-days days. The eighth graders s1u'vived, but they could.n't have done it With- out a retreat. They had to take time out from the hustle and bustle of our world for time in their own little world. Ruth Attanasia r c Billy Aughenbough K Shannon Banks Ken Beckham ,Y-. I Cafmel Bell 4- A -ii' ' 'i IHFI ll Alicia Beran Michael Berry Niki Bitner Shawn Bizzell Laurie Bobbit Yolanda Bowie Kimberlea Boyles Tim Boyles Johnnie Britton Ashley Brown Shawn Brown Michelle Bryant James Buffet Bobby Bunce Anthony Cantrell 5 . E , 1 . 4. . x as 3,5 - sf ' . 9' A . .Ri A K-I , .. 'I People , .' . Yi S . 5 S . I.