Churchland High School - Trucker Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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At the pep rally prior to meeting the Bruins, Karen Gabriele encourages pursuit, attack, and destruction. Symbolizing the Trucker’s feelings, Patti Ballentine shows that she thinks that Churchland is Number One. A pep rally in the stadium on a crisp autumn afternoon was a pleasant way to spend the last half hour of a school day. Steve Parker and David Goldman can bear V testimony to the general livliness.

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