Shades Valley High School - Tower Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING TO?

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Juit what i a true Mount ® friend? A Mount.® friend .s someone who shares apprehension on the first day of our first year at Volley A true friend is always willing to be late to class with you Mo or she is always there when Mr Turner yells Yall clear the hails A Mountie friend listens to gossip about so and so's” boyfriend You moan that's him?' A true tnond will listen to us repeatedly talk on the telephone about our latest heart render mg crush without falling asleep He or she lots us copy the homework that we never even started the night before A Mountie friend is someone who cries with us m the bad times and laughs with us in the good A Mountie friend 18 there with us on graduation night, sharing the memories of the past three years that we have spent together

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1 Studying? What's that-’ Most of us go through three years ot high school without knowing the meaning ot the word Hero at Valley most ot us think studying is — cramming the night before or trying to memorise live months ot work the night betoro the semester exam. — writing that essay for Mrs Rickman until 4.00 in the morning and getting up at 6 00 — trying to tall asleep counting the federal cases in government. (You mean there are 61?) Studying for Mrs. Harrell s math test is like training for the Olympics. You begin years in advance Studying is? I don't know. I don't do it. And how about the future? The words seem to imply a vague impression of decisions that must be made . later Well. Seniors, our future is upon us' Many of us in the class of '82 (yeah!) are leaving our childhood behind (at least mosf of us are) and taking up Ihe responsibilities of adulthood We thought we would never make it. didn't we-? 8u1 we did Take a deep breath savor that feeling ot freedom for a moment .. now what do we do? We made it, wo hove it. but what do we do with it? ¥ c e c s ? , C(,n g of Au; ,ic ■m drri( • % mm s