Prince George High School - Peerage Yearbook (Prince George, VA)

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Q 5 Mi: A BRAND NEW PACKAGE - THE CEILING'S THE LIIIIIIT. Auditorium worker sets up makeshift scaffold for wall to wall paint job. NOT JUST A MUDHOLE. Bulldozer-leveled dirt piles up during pre-foundation preparation. III: 'I - .':.,.- 1 ..e...' 1, Hy' .QQ 1 . 5. -H 4' W- - F kt 4 1-fl lx.. .FL -lf' , . X - . lg,l 5 1 ' ,I , F rv. Q V,'g-.2-7a9!luQr- . ,:.,::.:w.w- - f , , 1 ,.- . . I 3, s ' ' - ' . ,.-V.-.-,Q-:iff-.,f - sf' 3:21 - ae- ' 1 A A i I ,Q A 'K -...- q .1 - ,-, -...E Q ' 2 if-vw' A 1 ' int A' Ls- -A - ,.. ..ef- 21. '.:. . ,-.L 'fx ' Q , Q-'Q , . X ' -. -:'ff...ffx'?' ' ' 'ff' f ' ' I-eggggagqfrgfi 'gf'- . ,. P ,fjfzr ' g:.:,j -1 ' - - -' Lxf:-5. P . ,,., , w- .M .- l .1513 1' 3, W .U ...M --t. Af--'. ' xx r 0--.' JI' ,V 0:99 - - A ,Q it... ' 14 ...gig .,.. atc. ,.. hfyfbf, A' J - . wie: ..q? .s ' ' 3 il.-N. ', - ' T k .s . , ,, -, , , . b, ' k- t . t.,-A I IT THE RAKE OVER, Kelly Robinette up after first cutting of new baseball infield. ALL MAPPED OUT. Ready for finished product inspection, school plan painting gives office walls an aerial view decoration. STACKED HIGH AND MIGHTY, once-filled equipment holders pile up beside doors during hallway clean out. New School Construction I3

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HAND! I LAI I t 1 A J wi th u 1 1 l A 12 New School Construction Questions of, Will it ever get done? mounted as slow-moving tractors plow through the first stages of brown dirt. Progress watchers lingered by window until the final Sit down! erupted fro very annoyed instructors. Using a different kind of lesson plan, teachers turned into temporary packing supervisors while overjoyed students missed out on usual year-end work. With a September deadline only thr months away, Romeo Guest constructi company workmen hurried through cinderblock walls, machine-smoothed pebble floors, and mismarked Prince CharIie building materials. Welcome first, curious visitors donned hard hat give the wings an approving check ove but as June wore on, peeping Royals skulked around corners to avoid irritat laborers for just a peek at those gree and gold lockers . Summertime unemployment dropped when step-in PG'ers took over the across-the-street equipment shift. Hopes for a late opening began to ri until teachers reported to less-than- complete facilities. Ceiling high boxes sat ready for the grand opening while blank walls awaited the arrival of scot tape and posters. Bumping into empty boxes and avoiding Keep Out signs made first day Lost again! confusion worse th before. Running to the guidance offic when pencil points broke and replacin trashcans with paper bags put more problem solving items on Dr. George's list. Even Rome wasn't built in a day.

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FORMALITIES, FRILLS, AND THUDS HORSING AROUND. Animal expert saddles up State Fair pony before getting ready to ride in afternoon sporting event. CENTURY OLD MODEL. PG County Fair participants show off way-back- when life of the surrounding area with close-to-the-real-thing ideas. SPRINGTIME FESTIVAL. Deserving contestants Bridgitte Wyche, Terry Oakley and Lisa Crowder pose with Representative Daniel for picture formalities after Brandon Plantation ceremony. THE GOOD DAYS. Old fashioned lady displays out of date dress during Nostalgiafest near Petersburg's antique Civil War era homes. 14 Things to Do .'-J ,.-ld HIUMIDRUM E M EIDIIC-E9 A giant floating peanut! lt drifted on top of the water midst numerous barrels and two by four crafts and the ioneer dated log cabin raft. The Third Annual James River Raft Race had you preparing weeks ahead and forgetting the nothing to do around here gripes. Dancing the night away until you thought your feet would fall off while you tried to win first prize raised money for the Muscular Dystrophy campaign. When the weather got a little warmer, you changed the pace and alked around and around the old high school for a total - f ten miles or until your legs gave out for the March of imes Walk-a-thon. A filled up fall calendar kept you on the run if you just Elhecked out all the things to do. Halloween haunted ouses spooked you from all points around the tri-cities En October 31st. With your overall and straw hat ssembly on, you went down to munch on chili dogs and listen to good ol' bluegrass music at the Bluegrass Festival. The clock turned back to the 195O's, and you wandered around downtown Petersburg touring even Ms. arwile's house and listening to bands of 25 years back t the Nostalgiafest. Seeing old customs either brought ack or kept up had you busy forgetting boredom omplaints and just having fun. First the county, then the state fairs filled up the pening of school weekends. Seeing displays, eating BQ, and meeting the Cookie Monster in person at the ounty fair delighted and gave you a chance to find out all inds of facts about the county. Getting twirled, tossed, nd tumbled, winning stuffed animals, and seeing live nimals didn't begin to cover all the events at the state air that made up your funtime weekends. Practicing your smile, you hoped your formal dress looked as good in sunlight as it did in your full length mirror. Finally, judgement day came. After a week of interviews and teas, Lisa Crowder stepped out to get the May Queen honor with Terry Oakley and Bridgitte Wyche beside her as runners up. ln between all these special things to do, sports events Ind school dances kept on all school year long to make ure there was always something to do around here. All you had to do was look for it.