Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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senior team of Rima Hartzen- bush, Jeff North, and Rick Lar- rick fell to the superior faculty team of Mrs. Wynn and Mr. But- termore. However, in the spell- ing bee, Vicky MacLeod and Edward Fountain devastated the faculty team 20-17. On the athletic front, it was the supple seniors versus the fading faculty. In a middle of the week venture, the seniors trashed the teachers 35-0 in football. In one of the many exhilarating plays, Ted Groom had an excellent re- ception in order to score. The basketball game which was played on Friday, was the site of another senior success. In this corner: On the right is the cham- pion faculty It's Academic' team; on the left are the losing seniors. Ouljumplng Mr. Price, Lee Bishop shows his senior superiority Although they did not trounce over the faculty as they had in football, their victory was im- mensely welcomed. As they say, good things al- ways come in threes ; the third good thing for the seniors was a thrashing ruin in the volleyball competition 12-8. In their final triumph it was clear that the Olympiad was an astounding success and will un- doubtedly become a tradition at Yorktown.

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Problems with bedgets are in the Post every day. But if Stock- man and his boys think they're the only ones with budget trou- bles, they're wrong. Maybe we don't have billion dollar deficits, but we do have as many hard choices to make about budget- ing our time. Take lunch, for example. Sounds like the easiest period of the day. Right? Wrong. We even have to make budget allo- wances during the course of a simple lunch hour. 0---vtd f Should we lunch in, and force feed a Macke hamburger just to have cramming time for that post-lunch geometry test, or do we drive on over to Ginos and really enjoy our noon-time break? But of course, there are always those of us who give up completely and escape out- doors to throw Frisbees. We all think that the school day presents us with our most difficult challenges, but the [budget process really begins once the school day ends. Do |we go home and sleep? Or do we go to Central and research that history paper for Mr. Belair's class? Do we go to that club meeting, onbetter yet, do we just chuck the whole thing and do absolutely nothing? With nighfall comes a whole new set of choices. We have to decide between which home- work is most pressing, which homework to work most diligently on, finally, which homework to forget altogether, (or at least until lunch the next day). Then there's that favorite choice: to forget homework completely and go out for the evening! Weekends are what we anticipate all week, but they present the biggest choice of all. Instead of having just one block of time to worry about,' have, two and a half days to Consider. Do we really get fcaught up in sleep and friendships, or do we plunge ahead and be the good stu- dents our parents and teachers would like us to be? But choices of how to budget our time are not the only prob- lems we face. Our shortfall is as real as that of the federal gov- ernment. We never seem to have enough money to cover all expenses. When we think we've saved up enough for class dues, club dues demand our hard-earned pennies. Dat- ing is an ever-present expense, along with the constant need to| keep our appetites sated. Un- like our debt-ridden parents, we I don't have the luxury of the old plastic money, so we have even a larger budget problem: how to find the time to earn the money to buy all the goodies we want. When it comes down to the fin- al analysis, like our friends in Washington, there really doesn't seem to be enough to go around. We never seem to have enough time to do all that we want, whether it be someone to see, something to do, or most of j all, just plain relaxing.