Claremont High School - Hickory Log Yearbook (Hickory, NC)

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Shrine Victory, Dixie Controversy And Basketball Success Highlight Year DlSSliNT OVER DIXIE provoked three days of discussion and a walkout over the playing of the song. The school board refused to decide on the matter, but hot tempcrs cooled at thc holiday break. Success on thc hardcourt establishes Hickory High as a basketball as well as a football power. COLD DRINK cups sometimes find their way onto the grass as graduation 1970 approaches. , 5 . ', W . sk. . 1:,k K ri' ii W riff' 4 J JP 13 Loud pros and cons of individ- uals' opinions and the magnetic unity afforded by a common cause were the antithetical characteristics of a student body experiencing mixed and confused emotions re- sulting from yesterday and today. With the appearance ofconfederate flags, the search for an objective solution began as blacks and whites firmly debated the issue of Dixie, the traditional pep song. Yet as the year progressed, a feeling of togeth- erness became analogous to both races as students. When the football season arrived, Coach Frank Barger served as coach for the winning team in the annual Shrine Bowl Game. As a tribute to him, the Stu- dent Council set aside a week as Barger Week. Moving away from conventialism, girls at Hickory High appeared in pant suits, khakies, and jeans as unusually cold Weather re- sulted in permission to wear slacks to class. For those with hurried schedules or early rides, the school a program of serving initiated breakfast. Within the school year, these new activities, along with old ones, presented a meaningful co- existence in the life of a student.

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3332 V 'Q--r I , Z ' P 6 'T'L - 134154155 A jaw f . . ml: l ORDER blanks and prizes go into the first magazine sale, engineered to raise school funds. FOOTBALL has its good and bad moments in a lean year, but Hickory places two players on the N.C. State Shrine Bowl team, and coach I-'rank Burger brings the state its first victory in seven years. 12 BLACK PARTICIPATION became a reality as many Negroes took positions ofschool responsibility. Beatrice Turner and Cathy Mitchell work together for a better relationship between blacks and whites. CROWDS move indoors and cheer the basket- ball team to impressive wins over opponents.

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PERPETUAL PEP figures, Red Tornado cheerleaders link the athlete and spectator into a single unit with song chants, cheers, and a one hundred per cent support for the school's major fall activity. Kaleidoscope of Color Envelops Fall Activity Innovations through new per- sonalities plus overtones of the preceding two years consolidated upon a unique in embarking school term. With reflections of summer still fresh in their minds, students returned to duties of fill- ing out registration cards, or in the case of sophomores, searching for the right homeroom. But soon all were settled and the captivating atmosphere of a united body over- took the school through magazine AN UNOCCUPIED post becomes quick re- ference for information on the next contest. sales. Spectrums of color and the appearance of sweaters soon changed the formerly warm scene into that of autumn. Character- istically, pep rallies gave each in- dividual student the right to voice his own school spirit. Bonfires, silhouetted against a dark sky, voiced vibrant cheers. Camouflaged by student activities as well as na- ture, fall was only the beginning of another year of student life for Hickory High Students. OVERHANGING oaks and flowing brooks en- velop H.H.S.: Carrousel Princess, Jane McLeod. 14 cm. ' ,H 'Y' K , 1. JOVIAL Bill Sitton receives much teasing and work from Council heads during registration. ONE IS USUALLY not apt to lind slave camps at high school gridiron contest, but the Sub