Abingdon High School - Beacon Yearbook (Abingdon, VA)

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Mike Pierce leaps with the greatest of ease as he makes it over the high jump. Rob Campany, Beth Cooke, and J. R. Davis Were chosen to go to the Governor ' s School for the Gifted. Wursuit Larry Bales and Curtis Burkett laugh at Mike Lethcoe as he imitates the Mikey commercial in the Faculty Frolics. As Jimmy Kayser pitches, Doug Ellis and Billy Rowe are well prepared for a quick out. i 7

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Moldy leaves of tradition and antiquity carpeted the floor of the wilderness until the set¬ tlers tramped out a broad trail of progress, tempered by the Standards of Quality, Virginia’s guidelines for progressive education. Educators eyed their per¬ formance targets through the smog of extra-curricular du¬ ties, P.T.A., professional improvement programs and apathy. Educatees eyed their diplomas through the rose- colored glasses of better back¬ ground, more flexible cur¬ riculum, looser discipline and early graduation. We were at liberty, to realize the Great American Dream and to build foundations from the timbers of the wilderness. In pursuit of happiness, we are determined to stake a claim on the frontier of the future. Sharon Arnold, Barbara Hoffman watch as Sally Phipps operates on a frog in biology class. Pam Roberts, dressed as Paul Revere, Sam McKinney came in 1st on the 440 announces to her class that the rebels slow heat against Marion. 6 are coming.

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