Franklin County High School - Animo Yearbook (Rocky Mount, VA)

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Smiles and friendly faces play a large part in the business world; Macks is lucky to have Dana McDonald as a cashier. Caught in the action, Sebrina Ruth takes a break from the register to bag grocieries at Winn-Dixie. Student Life 23

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Boney Fingers! Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? For working high school students the question was more often “What don’t you get?” What these students did not get were Friday night parties, Saturday morning cartoons, and afternoon movies. The truth was that if a stu- dent held a job, he didn’t have a great deal of free time. Spending weekends behind Programmed to bag groceries, place them ina buggy and put them in a customer’s car, is Richard Rakes who is employed by Kelly’s Supermarket. ins Many people work but there are also those thay buy what the workers produce. Pam Johnson is partial to Leggetts when it comes to buying shoes. When an employee runs a register, he is re- sponsible for the money in them. Tim Over- street seems to be rather precautious about taking Landy Thurman’s money. 22 Student Life counters, over hot grills, stocking shelves, or bagging groceries was hard. And to make matters worse was the knowledge that friends were out going to movies, parties, and dances. Of course the extra money helped. But what good did new cars and nice clothes do when there was no time to show them off? Another thing working students of- ten did without was sleep. Those late nights were especially obvious during lengthy classroom lectures. Surely there were advantages to working, but they were not always obvious. For the working student, the question remained — “Work your fingers to the bones and what do you get?”

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Sorry About This ... I didn’t mean to complain, but as a member of the yearbook staff, I was sitting and trying to write more copy that would have connected these pictures to some similar topic. The typewriters were pecking; there was much conversation, and the clock was ticking down as our deadline moved closer and closer. The first question I asked myself was “What did all of the pictures have in common?” There were two There is always cafeteria food, but in this case after school means a chance for some REAL food as J.P. Farmer and David Ross wait for pizza. The halls around the campus are often filled with chatterers and close friends. Moments like these keep things going. 24 Student Life people sitting at a table and a girl eating an icecream cone. I could have written something about food, but what did food have to do with a group sitting in front of one open locker? There was also a guy sitting in the middle of a big open floor by himself. After noticing this similar- ity I considered writing about people sitting on floors. But no, I couldn’t do that because I had already put a great big picture of a girl standing outside of a door with an agonizing look on her face. I asked ten of my co-workers and not a single one of them gave me any advice. So, I sat just a little longer before I realized that I was going to submit this to your yearbook. Gee, Iam really sorry about wasting space where some copy that might have been a little more interesting could have gone. Please forgive me and THANKS for reading.