Adair County High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Columbia, KY)

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What makes summertime funtime? Ah-Summertime! This summer was “the time of the seven-day-weekend. according to junior John Royse. “It's a time to head for the water ' said Stephen Keen. “I spent my summer on the water. These feelings were not much unlike the opinions shared by most students this year. It is safe to say that for most students, summer is a time for pure recreation. This in- cludes all types of sports ranging from water- skiing to organized group sports such as a girls' softball league. The coach of one of these softball teams was senior Timmy Foster. Timmy said. “The most outstanding thing in the whole summer was playing in the State Softball Tournament. For some students the summer is more than just a time for fun. For these people it is a time to get a job and make a little of that much needed money. Some students who worked this summer were Paul McQueary and Kevin Like many other students. Susan Barbee has a summer job Using the pool .s one of the fr.nge benefits of Susan's job as a lifeguard. Spending his summer on the water. Stephen Keen shows his ability as a skier. 16 summer

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m Citizens pitch in for computers Our community is proud of the hard work and dedication that have gone into helping Columbia grow and prosper, stated Mr. Ran- dy Nelson. The Miss Lake Cumberland Pageant, Ameri- can Private Enterprise Program, Bell Pepper Festival, the new television station, and the funding and raising of the computer science building are just a few things the community has done in the past several months. April of '83 brought the Miss Lake Cumber- land Pageant. Girls from all over the Lake Cum- berland area competed in the pageant which was held in the Adair County High School gym. I feel the Pageant helps bring Adair and sur- rounding counties into a closer relationship, commented senior John Waggoner. The American Private Enterprise Program, sponsored annually by the Columbia-Adair County Chamber of Commerce and the Adair County Extension Service, selected 34 Adair County High School juniors and seniors to at- tend a three day seminar in an effort to learn more about private enterprise and how it works. The students that attended the semi- nar had the chance to meet local business men and discuss their views on the changing econ- omy. Five $50 scholarships to the colleges of their choice were given to outstanding stu- dents during the program. The recipients were Gidget Baker, Steve Hoots, Angie Burton, Robby Morrison, and Mary Woodford Al- lender. We've been out pickin' peppers, was the first line of the Pepper Festival song. Adair County started a new tradition with the song which was written especially for the festival. The festival will be held annually to honor the pepper growers of Adair County. Some of the festivities were parades, beauty pageants. contests, exhibits, the crowning of Mr. A.L. (PeeWee) Sinclair and sophomore Sarah Fran- ces Allender as Bell Pepper King and Queen, and the giving away of a four night and five day vacation in St. Petersburg, Florida. With the opening of the WGRB television station, many people for the first time could pick up a TV station clearly. The new station was an honor to our county considering most communities only have a radio station, not both a TV and a radio station, said senior Jan Cooksie. With the help of the community, Adair County students have entered the computer age. Many projects were pursued to raise money for the computer science building. A Buy-a-Block canvas of the county was a major project which brought in over $3,400 for the building. Seventy-one volunteers, twenty-nine drivers, and eight staff members of the Chamber of Commerce worked on this. A radio auction broadcast over WAIN on Thursday. June 23, sponsored by the Future Leaders 4-H Club, added a great deal of money to the computer building fund. The school sys- tem received a $20,000 state matching grant to help with the purchase of computers, furni- ture, and software for the computer science building. Not everyone gets a grant like this, Superintendant Kermit Grider stated, and they (State Department of Education Officials) said that the support the community has shown for the project was the biggest factor in our receiving the grant. All the hard work, dedication, and volun- teered hours finally paid off, Mrs. Mary Al- lender commented. A project like this had never been undertaken by a community alone. With the help of adults and young people working together toward a common goal, that dream became reality. Allender continued by saying, This was truly an example of Adair Countians working for Adair Countians. —Leila Allender Q Algorithms for starting a car were being tested by senior Jim Johnson in Mrs. Joyce Durham's first period introduction to computers.

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Jenkins. Both these juniors worked as disc jockeys at WAIN. Ron Melton worked as a bricklayer. Another junior Susan Barbee worked as a lifeguard at the public pool. I mad - many new friends ' said Susan, and enjoyed seeing so many people having a good time As the distractions of summer ended, more attention was focused on the upcoming school year. You miss the friends you haven't seen all summer, said junior Tammy Grider, and you start to look toward school with a sort of anticipation. Thoughts such as that made re- turning to school an easier thing to do. —John Collins Q Keeping an eye on the ball Debbie Hutchison waits for a pitch Debbie's team. Burton Brothers, finished the season 32 and 9. Mark Rowe keeps his tennis game in shape by playing throughout the summer summer 17