Andrew Lewis High School - Pioneer Yearbook (Salem, VA)

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THE 1974 PIONEER VOLUME 40 PUBLISHED BY THE YEARBOOK STAFF OF ANDREW LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL 616 COLLEGE AVENUE SALEM, VIRGINIA 1

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Complaints... The 1400 individuals found it hard to stifle opinions, and arguments mainly concerning current events were frequent in the cafeteria, in the halls, and in IA discussions. Neither was criticism spared, es¬ pecially pertaining to school pol¬ icy, teachers and most of all, to the building itself. The energy crunch intensified the already poor heating system, and comments of it ' s like being in an iceberg in here! were simulta¬ neous with you ' d never know there was a fuel shortage, it must be ninety in this room! From a neighboring IA. Less serious complaints were made about the stairs, how your feet kind of mold in with the grooves in the steps, and some¬ times when you reach down for a bannister, it isn ' t there, or if it is, it ' s broken. And in the bath¬ rooms. It was rumored that the ladies room was the greater of two evils in that one had to wade through clouds of smoke and at least a foot of water only to wait in line, and then to find that maybe the toilet paper shortage had already hit A.L. Teachers were often criticised for asking the extraordinary of stu¬ dents, such as carrying burning trash cans down a flight of stairs to extinguish the fire outside. The trash cans became the center of attention whenever our local py- romaniacs decided to set fire to one of them. Although they had serious under¬ tones, most criticisms were made good-naturedly, and some even admitted that these things added to the total Lewis character.