Biloxi High School - Indian Echo Yearbook (Biloxi, MS)

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Above: Wally Taylor opts for one of the healthiest and least expensive forms of transit — bicycling! School Days, School Days After three months of freedom, school bells tolled again on September 2, and the 1982 school year was underway. “Back to school” meant returning to the daily grind of alarm clocks and homework, but many students looked forward to a pro- mising new football season, the arrival of class rings, and cat- ching up on all the latest gossip. Left: Chris Dwelle demonstrates what the well-dressed preppy egg baby wore for fall. Caring for egg babies for two days was one of the first assignments of the term in Child Development classes. Below Right: Many Biloxi High students exercised the privilege of driving their own cars to school. In spite of excessive gas costs, it remains the favored form of transportation. 5

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Above Left: September and football season go hand in hand, as this ex- uberant group of cheerleaders illustrates. Right: Suzanne Bienvenue is one of many student body members who regularly arrive on campus by bus. 1982 marks the fourth year of free bus service for students living more than one mile from the school. 4

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Heatwave Thanks to customary high nineties temperatures, the Biloxi School System operated on a half-day basis until September 25. As Biloxi High was one of the few local “air cooled schools, floor fans and water fountains were put to good use during the first sweltering month of the school year. Students welcomed half days as an opportunity to make sum- mer fun last just a big longer, but unfortunate facul- ty members were required to remain in the sizzling classrooms until 4:00 PM every day. Above Left: Muppet Miss Piggy provided the inspira- tion for this entry in the an- nual Gulf Publishing Com- pany Sand Sculpture Con- test. held on September 19. tilled Piggy's Pearl of the Ocean. Above Right: Ron- nie Wilson beams in satisfaction at having a fan all to himself during a par- ticularly warm afternoon. Right Far Right: Cafeteria lunch sales suffered an all- time low during half days. Few students had the ap- petite to down a midday meal whan A lunch started at 10:20 A.M. 6