Chopticon High School - Chopticonian Yearbook (Morganza, MD)

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4 We got up every morning and went off to school to put in our six hour shift, but some CHS students decided to work a little overtime after school and on weekends. English, math, and science didn't earn any spending money, but flipping hamburgers at Hardee's did. Why did we do it? Renee Briscoe said, “I get out of school early, earn three easy credits, and for the money!'' Asking mom and dad for money really became a bummer. Working part-time solved that problem for many of us. It gave us spending money for going out, clothes, and other miscellaneous things. It also gave us the money we needed to cover the ex- penses of cars, bills, and just being students. Working made some of us feel a little older and more independent. After all, it was one of the major steps toward in- dependence. It showed our parents that we could handle some of the respon- sibilities of an adult. Guy Mincey, a junior, really proved to the adults that he could handle the respon- sibilities of the adult world by opening his own carpet-cleaning business. I did it because it is hard for teenagers to find a job because of the competition, stated Guy. He also said, I feel that anyone with the right attitude and the right steps can achieve anything they want. Whether we worked for the money or just for something to do, most of us felt a great deal of pride when we got our paychecks. It was finally something we had earned on our own. toes 29

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It's stuck to the roof of my mouth! David Barth munches on his ice cream at lunch You hold a block of metal in your hand, and it's solid. Yet within the metal there are molecules of atoms, all moving by laws of their own Press a block of pure gold against a block of pure silver. When you separate them they seem unchanged, but a good physical chemist will show you that where they have been in contact, invisible flecks of gold have wandered across the barrier of structure and buried themselves in the silver and likewise atoms of silver, somehow, in the structure of the gold. I think that when people are pressed close they act the same way. Part of you enters them, part of them enters you. Long after you forget the names and faces, they are still a part of you. Sometimes it is frighten- ing to think that every person you hated or feared, or run away from is part of you. But so is every person you have ever learned from, every friend you ever knew ' Theodore H. White, The Mountain Road Lei's see if we have enough change ... Mr O'Donnell takes tickets from Dawnele Hotxook. Chanele Holbrook and laune Bauer at one of Chopticon's many discos held to raise money for dubs and organizations Wow! There is a four letter word in this book. Deb- bie Harper and David Hartsig make good use of the new library media center This class is so boring! Roger Pritchard and Dale Anderson try to pay attention during a lecture in Mrs Heater's dass PEOPLE 31