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

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Mundane Monday Quick, get your battle gear! Run for cover! back!! Monday's Hit the dirt! Haunting thought — will it be good or bad? Only time will tell how the week will start. Maybe we liked Mondays, maybe we didn’t, but they were always there. How could we avoid them? After all, Monday did start every school week. On bad Mondays, everything went wrong. It was raining and the moving zoo was late. We got on the bus and got first- hand combat training without joining the army. We were attacked by pop quizzes, bad grades, long lectures, and mountains of notes. Then they served us cheese-frisbees and vegetable calabash, with cowboy cookies for dessert and we had forgotten our ten-gallon hats! By the end of the day, we had so many books to carry that we practically needed a forklift to get them all home. On the good Mondays, everything was okay. The weather was nice and the bus was on time. No over-excited monkeys had snuck on board. We were actually prepared for our quizzes and tests, the grades we got were good, and we weren't buried under piles of work. The lunch was great. Our lockers didn’t get stuck and we weren't called to the office. At the end of the day we only had a few books to take home with us, and we stepped off of the bus at our home with no gum stuck to our shoes. Mondays could really go either way. Fif- ty percent were good, fifty percent were bad, (okay, so maybe a little more than fif- ty percent were bad!) But even on the worst Mondays you could always count on one thing. Where else can you find the quality entertainment you got from Garfield? Bus driver, Ronald Pasley, looks in his rearview mirror carefully watching the sleepy students who aren't ready to face Monday. Those lockers! Lockers were an important part of a student's life but they were also a bit of a nuisance. Ron White seems to be having a minor problem with his. Mondays 29

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Manic Monday. Robbie Hart is in desperate need of a break. Mondays always seem to start so early, especially on school days. Someone call a tow truck! Kelly Montgomery must have someone else’s books, because they couldn't possibly be hers — at least not all of them. Or could they? It is time to get out of that bed, (Teddy Gregorieff)! We know it’s Monday, but you can’t sleep all day. Mundane Monday, here he comes! He's getting up now — feet first! 28 Mondays

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Funday — Friday Frankly, they’re the greatest! Fridays brought Franklin Coun- ty to life as the weekend got underway with plans to take in as many activities as we possibly could! Frankly it’s the best! Ready for a party. I can’t wait! Day’s almost over. Any second now, Yeah! It's Friday! Almost everyone loved Fridays. Nothing could have possibly gone wrong. The weather was always ‘‘perfect,”’ (even if it was raining.) It didn’t make any difference, Friday had finally arrived. By the end of the week, personal time was as mandatory as exams, and Friday kicked it all off. Friday was ours to do as we pleased (after we were released from school). Friday meant a lot of things to a lot of people. It meant no more frustrated One small step for mankind, a big leap for Ronnie Poff. Friday meant lots of time for doing as you pleas- ed with no hassles. Working quickly to finish assignments before class is one thing Jason O'Conner and G. W. Wilson won't have to worry about after Friday. 30 Fridays teachers, (or should we say no frustrated students?), no tests, no last-minute panic to finish homework. It also meant home ball games, dates with the best people around, cruising, loud music, and parties. Maybe it meant dressing up and going out for dinner and a movie, or just staying at home dressed like a slob, and watching TV while scarfing down a pizza. We could talk on the phone until all hours of the night, and push our curfews to their limits. It was up to us. Friday night was the begin- ning of the end of the week, and a different person emerged from the student with glasses, twenty books, and a slide rule. An unburdened teenager was released from his chains into the weekend life of Franklin County! Pd Sa