Central High School - Sword and Shield Yearbook (Victoria, VA)

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CONTENTS Opening 1 Student Life 4 Clubs 14 Activities 34 Sports 62 Accomplishments 74 People and Academics 84 Seniors 86 Juniors 98 Sophomores 102 Freshmen 108 Faculty 114 Advertisements 120 Acknowledgements and Index 136 Closing 142 Now we know. After a three year bad luck streak, football player Mike Atkins learns the feeling of winning more than one in a row. Studying the ’76 Sword Shield helps )ane Price decide whether or not to invest in a ’77 yearbook. Bad news, Guidance Department’s orientation test forces Andy Edmunds to recall information about school policies and personnel. Survival of fittest. Agriculture students Bernard Harris and Marshall Eastwood determine which trees to cut down, leaving strong, healthy ones behind. A sign of the times. Giant bales of hay replace the old haystacks of bygone years in Lunenburg county. 2 Opening

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SWORD ANd SHIELD 1977 VOLUME XI CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ROUTE 2, BOX 63 VICTORIA, VIRGINIA 23974 Opening day, tobacco buyers encounter a small quantity and poor quality tobacco due to a sum- mer drought. Make a move. Instead of studying during study hall, Mike Ligon and Tracy Estes work to improve their chess know-how. Animal, vegetable, or mineral? Kelly Gallion takes a break from his Agriculture class to tease a green snake. Opening 1

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What’s it like living in the country? It’s like .. . Growing a real garden— not only with flowers but also vegetables. Having a southern accent that northern cousins make fun of. Arguing about which town is bigger— Kenbridge or Victoria ... or Dundas? Working in the Big Tee on weekends. Having a driveway that’s almost a mile long. Even though all Central students don’t live on farms, they’re all country people— from those living on a half acre lot in town to those living on a 200 acre farm. They’re all JUST PIaIn Folks. Opening 3