Fort Hunt High School - Fortress Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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Defore rhe pep roily. Eileen Morousek, Tracey Green, and Linda Whirner are all smiles and legs for rhe cam¬ era. Ar rhe Homecoming Dance Debbie Holrzclaw lers ir all our in one of her rypical yells The homecoming class princesses rake five during re hearsal. . Homecoming 17

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Go for if Feds The pep rally was hor—everyone was ready ro crush The lasr day was fun, ev eryone was screaming and clapping, soys Karen Holland The cheerleaders and drill ream added ro rhe exciremenr of rhe rally Srudenrs lefr rhe school chanring, only ro find rhar ir was pouring ourside The game was delayed unnl rhe nexr day Even rhough rhe school had a ler down because of rain, rhe nexr day was sunny and everyone could rasre vicrory, soys Debbie Lovely She was righr, rhe Federals defeared rhe Edison Eagles 7 ro 0 rhar day and everyone lefr wirh high spinrs Shorrs and Shades Day is nor forgorren by spirired juniors Jeff Richards, Cameron Demoine and Carolyn Conre Duildmg rhe camera for rhe junior floor, Sheila Horned learns rhe monorony of pasrmg lirrle pieces of rissue paper on cardboard While working on rhe junior floor, Sheila Horned, Holly McGovern ond Moggie Hullick rake five 16

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IMPROVEMENTS? Hove you ever walked Through a hallway rhis year wirhour seeing a consrrucrion worker? Did you go ro o classroom only ro find our rhar ir was voconr, or workers were in rhe room, or rhor rhere was no room or olP This happened ro many srudenrs during rhe school year Because of rhe fire, Taxpayers pur rheir money rogerher ro rry ro rebuild rhe school. The insurance agency would nor allow rhe school ro renovare and rebuild ar rhe same rime Because parrs of rhe school hod ro be rebuilr, workers had ro rear down whar had been done ro renovare The man in charge of rhe consrrucrion was Mr. Mike Wagner, rhe School Board represenrarive He said, Everyone has been real nice, ir ' s been a pleasure ” I ' ve rebuilr rhis school once before, righr afrer rhe fire, and I can do ir again. he claims smiling. Abour 20 men were involved wirh rhe con¬ srrucrion, same in plumbing, and orhers in elecrricol Mr Wagner feels rhe work will be complered by May 1 He finishes by saying, The srudenrs were excellenr and a joy ro be around Srudenrs and reachers didn ' r complain much bur some srudenrs were upser by ir all The arr room is o mess, we have supplies bur we can? use rhem because rhey ' re piled up in anorher room, said Ms Williams The consrrucrion workers pur some of rheir equipmenr in rhe rooms and srudenrs are eirher crowded or displaced There is so much noise and so many boxes rhar ir is very hard ro concenrrare. Some classes have ro be swirched ro orher rooms, like arr, shop, compurer science, rhe Forrress and rhe Fronrline had ro do all rheir prmring ar home Even Though we were forced ro change from one room ro onorher, we somehow mode ir Through rhe school year Nexr year rhe srudenrs look forward ro a finished school which rhey con enjoy, bur rhe memories of clanging, nailing, boxes, and ladders lying oround will no doubr remain. The conrinous moss of wood and dnder bloclss hos become on expec ted sighr for srudenrs who pass by frequently Filling rhe hole rhey jusr dug up, rhe consrrucrion work ers warch over rhe scene 18 Consrrucrion