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

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. Showing not only his chest, Corn rows in red hair? Leonard Bosworth has his hair fashioned by Brenda Reese. But also the changing fash- ions, Billie Scott gets down on the music of Don Cornelius and Dick Clark. Passing through the halls, you can hit a cloud of aroma which nearly knocks you off your feet. Marajuana smoke, strong enough to get you high passes through the ventilators, spreads across the halls, and around the corners. The source of the indirect high is unknown, but it is evident that a joint is being passed. Continuing through the hall, you pass couples necking along the walls. You notice kids wearing thermal underwear as overwear and blacks as well as whites with corn-row styled hair. Hall monitors check your hall pass; yes, time; 11:50, destination; restroom. In the bathrooms, trash is scratched into the paint, and various lists adorn the walls. Back at class, discussions on the legalization of prostitution, of marajuana, of abortion, and skits about sex hang-ups are initiated. As you’re leaving school, a policeman pulls you over for allowing a fellow student out of the lower parking lot. Culpeper County High School, 1975. With her fiance's name on her history book. Marilyn Long anticipates a future of wedlock. UHERE ms YOU NOW?

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Is this a sneak-preview of coming fashions? Dennis Deacon and Scott Whitehead give a fashion show during drama class. the times. Brenda Lee takes advantage of an A skit performed by Leroy Hackley and Lynne Black centers on sexual opportunity to experience the cuisine of problems experienced by a young newlywed couple. foreign lands.

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MMCRC ARC YOU NOU? Lines form at the door of the school store where change is passed from student to store attendant in return for supplies. Take a stab at guessing the average cost of living for a student at C.C.H.S. Remember to take into account pencils, paper, pens and an average of two lunches a day. At the beginning of the year, students fork out money for books, activity tickets, and new clothes. Toward the middle of the year come picture costs, (more expensive for seniors) and class ring costs for juniors. At the end of the year, a fortune is spent by male Prom-goers as well as females, and a phenomenal amount of cash is handed over by seniors to the man in charge of cap and gowns and graduation announcements. By our estimates, the average student spends anywhere from S439.95 to $539.95 on school- oriented activities and needs. This estimate doesn’t account for regular expenditures such as dates, McDonalds, and amusements. According to our survey, the cost of living through the four years of a student’s high school career rises sharply. Inflation has milked the student of his financial resources and has forced many desperate teenagers to resort to working during their spare hours to support the high standards of living that are forced upon them. Relinquishing a bill of hard-earned cash, Martin Snead buys a 50c box of M M's to support the Junior Varsity Club. 6