Culpeper County High School - Colonnade Yearbook (Culpeper, VA)

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With the addition of six new teachers, seven re- placements, and two administration members, our faculty family grew to meet the ever increasing number of students. To the Spanish department was added a part time teacher who also helped in the English de- partment, where another full time English teacher was added. Another part time teacher was employed to ease the load in history and home economics. A new guidance man plus an assistant principal for athletics completed our faculty family.

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S’ ' fA V i. In the spring, many kids thoughts turned to ex- ercising and running. It was all worth it, though when the girl’s track sent 9 members to run in state competition. Baseball, however, spoiled the spring record. As usual, our boys couldn’t get it together for a winning season. For the first time ever, the girl’s hockey team closed their season undefeated. Boys on the cross country team that went to the state meet in Wil- liamsburg, came in third. Football was not fantas- tic nor was it a holocaust. The boys played more like a team under the direction of their new coach. Basketball teams seemed to hang on opposite ends of the scale. The girl’s team nearly won the I ' regional title, but failed on the final night of com- petition. The boys didn’t do that well, to say the 1 least. With the loss of last year’s anchor man and I “Chicken”, with his imparied drumstick, the team felt the unfamilieir taste of defeat.

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This year’s freshmen class pushed our student number within 43 of capacity. The senior class numbered 202, junior class 321, sophomore class 380, and the freshmen were 407 strong. Our school was built to hold 1350 students and now, only five years after its completion, we total 1307. There was a time when there were extra rooms that could be used for club meetings and other ac- tivities, but now every nook and cranny is being put to use. Other effects of the overcrowded conditions were that pep rallies were held outside because the gym could no longer hold the students under the fire regulations and the addition of cafeteria chairs to seat all students in the auditorium during assemblies.