Weston High School - Heliotrope Yearbook (Weston, CT)

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THERE IS LIFE AFTER 2:00 Did fear of self-vegetation, or perhaps a strange physical attrac- tion to the school, keep so many students lingering here during post-class hours? Most likely it was a simple need to occupy free time with something besides homework! The building actually seemed tc come alive at 2:00, as many left but just as many began the second half of their day. Classes were fi- nally emptied except for teachers planning the next day's lessons or helping students with school as well as socially related problems. A new atmosphere overtook the weary halls, which burst with trackies and other athletes who moved in during the winter months. An unseasoned stayer- after grew accustomed to dodging hurdlers as he or she sauntered from his locker to the safety of outdoors. It was a time when romances budded, and died. Locker rooms and radiators proved excellent feeding grounds for some of the juiciest gossip that was to be born the next day. Flirting, a favorite pasttime, prospered during those idle after-school hours. Custodians may not have swept away broken hearts, but they kept busy long after most had gone home, sweeping up vital pens and pencils lost in between classes, ice cream wrappers, secret notes, and other school-ori- ented debris. Mercifully, when- ever possible, they saved cleaning windows, mirrors and floors with their noxious potions until after school. Mr. Haas extended his duties beyond an 8-hour working day, remaining as long as it took to get the day's job done. He even came on weekends when inecessary, and showed an avid interest in his students by coming to many ma- jor events as well as other extra- curricular events whenever pos- sible. 26 ,