Yorktown High School - Grenadier Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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■ Again volleyball (final score 9-8). The faculty did win the basketball game, however, but not without much dispute. The score was never really clear, with one scoreboard displaying one point more than the other, but the fi- nal score was 10-8. Now the pressure was really on. The scores stood at 5 events to 5 and the Tug-of-War would be the tiebreaker. With most of the weight being on the faculty's side, the seniors seemed doomed. The whistle blew, starting the event, but before the faculty could realize what was going on, they found them- selves being dragged helplessly across the floor. They pulled and struggled, but the determined seniors were not about to lose this event. The agony which plagued the faculty was evident in the redness of their faces as they felt themselves sliding closer and closer to losing until at last they were put out of their misery by the whistle stopping the event. Cheers filled the gym. The seniors had won the Olym- piad 6 to 5. As everyone cleared out of the gym, a few students snickered at the faculty's fore- told loss. Seniors and teachers compete for the re- bound. Senior Olympiad 23

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Seniors Pull Through As expected, the seniors won the annual Senior Olympiad, but not without a little competi- tion from the opposing team, the faculty, who only trailed the favored seniors by one event. The competition ended with an overall score of 6 events to 5. The seniors crushed in flag football with a score of 56 to 28, but the faculty bounced back when they skunked the seniors in ping pong (5 games won by the facul- ty out of the 5 games played). In the long distance race, Chris Kidder and Mark Pennell brought the seniors in the lead once again (Better luck next time Officer Steger!) but this didn't discourage the faculty. They kept the pressure on and their efforts were rewarded when Mr. Buttermore beat Chris Robinson two games to zilch in the Chess tournament, Dede Macekura won the Spelling Bee, and Mrs. Alexiou, Mrs. Henkel and Mrs. Newhouse led the way to victo- ry in It's Academic against John Andrukonis, Rob Skoff and Chris Kidder. Never fear though! The seniors would nev- er give the faculty the satisfac- tion of winning, they were just giving them a break (it's not nice to get a teacher mad.) They proved this by smearing the fac- ulty in tennis, badmitton, and 22 Senior Olympiad

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Gotcha! As John Teter goes through the daily monotony of shaving, he is re- minded that failure is just a razor-slip away from success. Wait up! Dashing after Bus 45, this stu- dent serves as a reminder that we aren't always ready. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth all the practices and workouts. Larry Clark pants while pumping mega-iron. 24 Getting Ready