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

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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.

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Life at Lewis was looked upon by each individual in a differ¬ ent way. Yet, we all were alike in feeling the drudgery of rou¬ tine rituals. Day 2 al¬ ways followed Day 1 with no variation. The piercing sound of the tone was heard, inevi¬ tably, every seventeen minutes, with the only exceptions of assem¬ bly schedules A, B, or C. Tests were studied for, crammed for, taken, passed or failed. The news of the day blared over the in¬ tercom in homeroom at exactly 8:40— ' ' Can I have your attention, please, for morning announcements? . The boredom of these habitual occurrences could only be over¬ come by unexpected events and the differ¬ ences between people that made life inter¬ esting. New events at the beginning of the year prompted varied reactions. The Senior ' s homeroom in the au¬ ditorium, Junior ' s in the cafeteria, and study halls in the middle of big blocks of gain time, were all variations from the norm. People, be¬ cause of their differ¬ ences, made individ¬ ualism apparent at A.L., just as it was stressed by society. L