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

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No, it’s not a dream! This is reality for students who visited Spain in the summer of '86. Friends Forever How do you make friends? You walk up and say, ‘Do you want to go to the beach with me during Spring Break?’’ Well this is my story. Spring Break '86 Chico Grigorieff went with me to Myrtle Beach for five days. It was great! Since then we have been best friends. During that same summer, his family went to the beach for a week. Well, what do you know! They invited me. | got to drive my new car down to Myrtle Beach so | could cruise. While at the beach I did not have to buy anything because Chico’s mother bought everything. (There is no’ better vacation to have than one that is paid for!) It is amazing what you can learn about people when you stay with them for a week. | learned that the Grigorieff family is one of the nicest families ever, and | will always thank them for their h ospitality. A true expert. Look at all the new friends Patrick Nix found over the summer on his trip to Spain. 12 Summer Vacation

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The big moment. Mary Ellen Naff and C. W. Shaver await their turn to participate in the Senior March at the Prom. “I think we should make the cover,” say Jason Guthrie, Missy Clemons, Margaret Shively, Cynthia Stevens, and, as they pose for the camera. What do you think? The Dating Game 11

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eo | No Work — All Play “From January 1 to June 6, it’s all | think about,” said Christina Grigorieff. Summer vacation oc- cupies the minds of students until that magic mo- ment at 3:15 on June 6 when it becomes reality. The months are filled with dreams of sandy beaches, great tans and fun times with friends. “The best part about summer vacation comes when you sit down to do your homework on June 6 and realize that you have none, and won't have any for a few months. That’s what | like about summer — no obligations and no work.” Title, let’s see ... “Summer” ... sum- mer what? ... ‘Summer ... Vacation!”’ Let us explain why we think there is no bet- ter word to follow ‘‘summer”’ than “‘vaca- tion.’’ The student spends thirty-six weeks, (approximately 180 days), in school. This comes to 1,080 hours and 1,080 changes a year. Now for the best part — extra hours of studying, sports practice, extracur- ricular activities, and after sch ool meetings. Who deserved a break today? Definitely not Ronald McDonald. By the time Easter Vacation rolled around, everyone was ready for a break, not to mention in desperate need for one. It was like an early taste of summer, but you knew that everyone was anxious to get .back into the class room after a week away. So we came back and worked for two months, and when exams were over we were really ready for a vacation. It wasn’t just a taste this time, summer was here at last! Rest and relaxation, peace and pleasure, fun and frolic under the summ er sun. Even though we had only three months of totally free time, time just for us, we made the best of every moment. Even the teachers lived it up. There were so many things to do! There Bumming around with beach buddies, Lindsay Stutsman bums out with two new friends from Canada. Beauty blends with beauty when DeeDee Schut and Laurie Smith stand with Spanish flowers. was adventure! We made trips to other states visiting relatives. We went to Myrtle Beach, Virginia Beach, Daytona Beach, the list goes on and on. Some of us even visited other countries. Then there was havoc on the homefront. We raided the pools, flooded the lakes, threw parties, cruised around in the best cars, and spent time, and lots of money, hitting the shop- ping malls. Of course there were a few of us who once again became addicted to our favorite soaps. The list of choices was endless. We had one of the best movie summers ever! We had movies like Top Gun with Tom Cruise, Cobra starring Sylvester Stallone, The Fly, and Friday the 13th VI which brought Jason back to life. Then there were those of us who couldn’t have named these sum- mer hits because we were sitting at home watching last summer’s movies on the satellite. There were parties everywhere you turned! We threw, attended, and crashed dance parties, birthday parties, music, food, video, and lake parties. We dressed formally, informally, in high fashion, in comfort, old clothes, new clothes, tight and baggy. If it could be done we could throw a party for it, (and we did). All in all the summer was fantastic. We only had one complaint, “‘Just five more minutes!!”’ Summer Vacation 13