Pine Forest High School - Pifonoca Yearbook (Fayetteville, NC)

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wgxililiw To wait: a verb mean: fl .al to remain stationary in readiness or expectation, Cl.bl to pause tor another to catch up, C2.al to look torward expectantly, C2.bl to remain temporarily neglected or un- realized. At numerous times during high school we seem to play a waiting game. Waiting tor SAT scores, waiting tor the bell to ring, waiting in the lunch line, waiting to be a senior, waiting to be a junior, waiting tor the pro, waiting tor a date, waiting to be l6, waiting to be l8, waiting tor acceptance to college, wait- ing ior a jolo, waiting tor summer, wait- ing tor the weekend, waiting tor class rings, waiting tor a holiday, waiting tor graduation, waiting tor drivers license, waiting to make the team, waiting tor the phone to ring, waiting tor the bus. We wait and wait. Sometimes we wonder it it's worth it. Teachers play the game a1so.a Coach Rat- ledge waits for the Xerox machine sixth period. A mob of famished students wait in line for lunch during the second lunch period. 14 Student Lite Sometimes we torget what it's all tor . . . But during those great moments ot pride and satisfaction when our SAT score was just what the college re- quired, when we walk through the doors ot what used to be the gym but is now an elegant ballroom, when we get that letter ot acceptance trom college, when we can legally sit behind the wheel ot a car without a nervous moth- er or father there to stutter us into in- sanity, and, the proudest moment ot all, when we walk across the stage to shake Mr. Warren's hand and receive our ticket to success, it's these times when we wonder how waiting can be so much tun. Sometimes, impatience causes us to tail to see that eventually the waiting will end. Playing the waiting game, lane Coury checks her watch in anticipation ot the loell,

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WE GET l NW DllWllflD Why do we do it? Why do we scramble through our closets every Friday to find something green and gold? Why do we don ridiculous moose costumes or wear a curly tail and pink snout? Why do we dress like the nerds we so often make fun of? Why? There are only two words that can ex- plain it: SCHGQL SPll?lT. lt comes in var- ious torms but it's color is almost always green and gold. From merely attending the games to painting our faces and hair, all of us enjoy it. Even the outrageous club initiations can be fun. Whatever the occa- sion, Friday's game, initiations, spirit week, there is always an abundance of participation by the students and, some- times, even the faculty gets a jolt of school spirit. For all of us who get involved school becomes more tunll Jin ii -fkf-sir 4 Yum! Yum! Gummy bears Henry Grey and David Goldie went all out for the German Club initiation, Chocolate Mousse invade the school, New French Club members were required to wear antlers and plastic bags for their initiation,