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Some Days Were Not Meant For Studying At School Some days were not meant for sitting in the classroom, translating French verse or calculating problems or even drawing a bird in art. The bodies in squeaky desks cannot hold still, the mouths can’t help but whisper across the aisle, and paper airplanes float lazily across the teacher’s nose. After these symptoms, most teachers give up and call it a day. Then, chaos hits. Blackboards are covered with grafitti. “Tommy loves Sue”’ “‘F.C.H.S. is one”’ “Biology is a bore’’ Trash floats from windows; doors slam and books fall from the desk. a ‘pinche next. In the art room. More clay ends up on the potters than in the pots, and in the locker rooms, wet towels whip at the unsuspecting body. Spring time brings even more antics. Frisbees fly through the air and some- times the hall. The waterguns and squirt bottles show up. Tank tops, shorts and sandles flop through the hall, and straw hats compliment the heads. It’s Franklin County High School’s way of welcoming spring. After a long cold winter of freez- ing classrooms and chilly halls, the warm weather is greatly appreciated at Wild and crazy guys, Gary Hunt, T.P. Prilliman, and Ty Walker turn class time into a free for all wrestling match. Driving them wild, lead singer for the Air Force Band melts the hearts of the ladies in the crowd singing “Help me make it through the night.” Just hangin’ around, Dawn Flora grips the bars and ponders what to do least by the students. Teachers find it hard to keep the attention of a mind wandering to thoughts of Philpott. Then there are the days spent talking about end of the year beach trips and Busch Gardens. Despite all detours, work follows a fairly regular schedule. That is if you can call postponing class for a few minutes to have an SCA member deliver cards, or pausing in the middle of a lec- ture for an announcement on class rings or drape pictures. Student Life 25
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24 A fun day, Charles Anthony Taylor and Brian Hart give big smiles. Gym inhabitants, Curtis Clayborne, Benny Gibson, and Jeff Highfill get ready for the night’s football game. Day dreaming, Shiela Mack is hard pressed to concentrate on SCA duties. The busiest time was Febuary 14 when they sold carnations and valentines.
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26 Unable to wait for the banquet to begin, Tennis coach Barbara Flora checks out award winners early. There was a time in Franklin Coun- ty when the prescription for a teacher didn’t vary much. One teacher was in charge of readin’, writin’, and numbers with one class ranging from six to eighteen years old, providing that farm work wasn’t pressing. The grim school marm with her love for cracked heads, spelling horns and ten com- mandments was a community figure, loved by adults, feared by children. At the end of the decade, the year 79 proved a climax of change and renewal. Teachers became young- er, not in age, but in actions. Classes became fun as worlds were explored. Art classes were no longer hours of drawing trees. It was macrame, pottery, silk screen, wood work and painting. Spanish was more than “‘si’’ and “uno’’. It was pinyatas, banquets, plays and trips. The menu for vocational work varied from elec- tronics to cosmetology, from Home Ec to masonry, but the dessert was the same—skills for a job after graduation. But it wasn’t the variety that made most (not all) classes fun. It was the people who were in charge. The teachers made the problems a little less complicated and the rewards a little more enjoyable. Maybe the theory on evolution didn’t stay in your mind for long, but .playing ‘‘Dating Game’’ in Sociology did. An ‘A’? on and essay was good, but not as good as the note saying, “‘Good job.” Teachers have changed greatly in Franklin County since the pio- neer days, but whatever the time, school is not school without a teacher. In constant demand, John Moore is a favor- ite entertainer at school banquets, as well as one of the most talented. Shying, Kris Kahila isn’t as shy as he pre- tends to be. : Focus On Faculty
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