Glass High School - Crest Yearbook (Lynchburg, VA)

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Look of surprise! Queen Patrice Hubbard's face shows her excitement as 1977 Homecoming Smiles of excitement fill the faces of the junior and sophomore Homecoming Court and the Beauty Reigns — With crowns signifying their Homecoming honors 1978 Queen Patrice escorts as the nominees are announced during the assembly. Queen Sheila Wells offers her congratulations. Moving to the beat — Ginny Martin and Jimmy Howard enjoy the Homecoming Dance which wrapped up the weeks’ activities. Hear the music! — Pam White and Richard Hayes move to the music at the Homecoming Dance. The Saturday night event provided the perfect conclusion to a terrific week of activities. Hubbard and 1977 Queen Sheila Wells ride around the field together. HOMECOMING 23

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While September marked the beginning of most school activities, October brought back many old friends with the annual Homecoming Week. Activities organized by the S.C.A. were held the 17th through the 22nd to add to the fun filled week. Beg inning on Monday polls were taken to nominate the Homecoming Queen along with a Homecoming King, which was new to the ballot. Final nominees chosen were Seniors: Patrice Hubbard, Larkin Burnette, Amy Buhler. Juniors: Lea Coll Robin Hill; Sophomores: Teresa Jackson Laura Riley; Freshmen: Laura Anthony Kim Burnette; King: Scott Dovel, Phillip Bennett Alec Driskill. Tuesday, the teachers came dressed in funny costumes while Wednesday, the students dressed in costumes of the 50’s to compliment the week’s theme, ‘“‘A Time To Change’’. Thursday, door decorations were judged and Mrs. Cashs’ French IV clas took first place and received a party on Friday. However; W-28’s prize was not the only activity on Friday, as a matter of fact, this was one of the busiest days. During 2nd period students and teachers found themselves in the auditorium for the Homecoming Assembly. Later in the day the S.C.A. officers took the door decorations to the auditorium lobby in preparation for the dance. At night the “Homecoming Game” with Halifax was played with a 14 to 6 outcome. The King and Queen, Patrice Hubbard and Scott Dovel, were announced and treated to a ride around the football field by classmates in M.G. Midgets. Saturday, the Homecoming Dance was a success with a popular band from Charlottesville providing the music. Royal promenade — Newly selected Homecoming King Scott Dovel and Queen Patrice Hubbard head back to the football field following their ride in the M.G. Midgets before the cheering crowd. Everything must change — Homecoming door decoration carried the theme through the dance as a large crowd dances to the music of a Charlottesville band. 22 HOMECOMCOMING A Time to Change

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“And the head, 2,3,4,.. .,” sounded the muffled voice of Billy Mason through the loudspeaker. Calisthenics began every Marching Band practice, followed by group practices, then the whole band together. ‘‘Off the line!”’, “Hurry up, let’s Move!’’, and similar orders were heard repeated over and over. By the end of the day, band freshman had quite a job cleaning the marching field. So many empty drink cans were piled in the trash cans that they became quite a beehive, and a few people were stung. These were the least of the casualties of the fall marching season; everyone suffered aching backs and feet, tired arms and legs, sore muscles, and heat prostration at least once. The band put in the usual unpaid forty hour plus work week for two weeks before school started: August 22 — September 2, from 8 until 12 and from 4 to 8. But that was not the beginning of the marching season. In the spring of 1977, Individual groups such as the Drum Corps, Flag Corps, and the Rifle Corps had try-outs and began practicing. When summer came, every Monday night at 7:30 the whole Marching Band met to practice music so that the instructors could decide which music to use and what the marching formation would be. The half-time show produced was the combined efforts of all the Marching Band instructors: Mr. Neal Haworth, Mr. Jim Meredith, Tim Montgomery, Kim Olds, George Zingali, Dino Ciccio, and Gary Covitz who put in as many hours as the band itself. The finished product premiered at the first home football game and every other home game. The group was tense as Sara Cheverton announced, ‘‘The 1977-78 E.C. Glass Marching Hilltopper Band,” as the band burst onto the field to the theme from “Star Wars’. The rest of the half-time show consisted of the Spanish “El Gato Triste’, Tschaikovsky’s ‘‘Nut Cracker Suite’, ending with ‘Evergreen’. Meanwhile during all this practice, Marching Band students had to break into a new school year, keep up with homework (ha-ha), and of course, sell the all-famous hoagies to raise money for upcoming competitions. Part of this fund raising included selling tickets to the 24 BAND Put Another Nickel In Lynchburg Classic. The day of the Classic dawned rainy and the rain continued throughout the day. The Parade of Champions was cancelled but the competition that night went on in the downpour. The Glass Band performed last so by the time they took the field it was gushy and slick mud. Remaining on two feet was the concern of most, but the band still gave a fine performance. The end of the winter marching season, as usual, was the Christmas Parade. Regular season competitions included a first place rating at the Chilhowie Apple Festival, and a fourth place overall ranking at the Tidewater Marching Festival and at the Falls Church Band Festival. These trips were not without their hectic moments as band members had to dress en route to avoid being late for performances to having to sleep on hard gym floors in sleeping bags. Making the scene at half-time, Tony Tanner and Bo Boylan return to the stands to drum up Electronic marcher, R2D2 makes his appearance at the Heritage-Glass game. The Grunwells and a few friends built it to accompany the band during the theme from “Star Wars”. excitement for the last half of the Hilltoppers’ and Pioneers’ football game.