George Mason High School - Mustang Yearbook (Falls Church, VA)

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Every once in a while, elves hang crepe paper and tinfoil all over the gym, and everybody comes to see it. The basketball nets are swung up and hidden. The tile walls and iron railings are ignored. the familiar incongruity of high heels and metal chair legs on the varnished floor white shirts and formals What are the teachers doing here? Everyone and his car is polished, and everything is very different in the dark. You spend your first two years being underfoot and in the ninth grade you decide you're grown up a time for pretending

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- -'-sw.: tavern 1-Qi, Scattered throughout are refuges the girls' room and the boys' room and, before the construction, the green around the school especially the banks where the people sit during the games up and down the banks with Coca-Cola programs watching our boys struggle over the field and the little boys crowding around the sidelines and the teams crashing back and forth over the field. On Monday, back to teachers and classes We learn: three important things that happened in 1619, About Julius Caesar, the Merchant, Eppi, the Three Jacques, how to get sulfur out of the ground, The lowdown on Shakespeare, but mostly to Explain and Discuss Choose any 20 out of 21 Reduce to LCD Trace Identify What does the pig in EQ-cjQ really represent?

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Talk on the telephone, wear new clothes, To the games and cheer for us, learn , to talk casually of going steady, learn to impress and not be impressed. Drive a car, go to dances, go to parties stay out late What is behind you was nothing, childhood gone and good riddance How foolish was Mt. Daniel or Jefferson or Madison, even two years ago how foolish That is the past now win your freedom from adults, you are grown-up vu:-with-9 f ' ,J