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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor: I have no bones to pick with you-1 just want to express my own personal views on the 1977-78 school year. As a senior, it was primarily a year of great concern. With declining enrollment, cutbacks were made left and right; the dismissal of some teachers caused others to take up the slack by doing double duty. And on the students’ side, we were forced to relinquish many freedoms we had taken for granted in previous years with the reinstating of Block Scheduling. And there was also the thought lurking in everyone’s mind: “How close arc we to consolidation with another school?’’ The freshmen, sophomores and even juniors began to wonder if they’d graduate before that happened. And the seniors showed concern, for this school had played a big part in their lives, and they also hated to see anything happen. However, this year was also filled with good things. There was a return of some old traditions and the first appearance of a new one. The National Honor Society and Student Council were re-established, while the Snow Dance debuted with great success. 1977-78 was a year of ups and downs, but I will remember it as a year of good times and friendship, full of memories to last a life time. After all this, what will I do without GVHS? A Senior LETTER FROM THE EDITOR 1 would like to take this opportunity to uphold yearbook tradition and write the inevitable, trite letter of thanks to all those faithful and somewhat dedicated students who have made this unique publication possible. But I won’t. It is in better keeping with the rest of the book for me to engage in things more readable. The theme of the book this year is “magazine style,” and we have upheld that idea to the best of our abilities. We have inserted creativity in copy, pictures and layout in a determined effort to stamp out the demon trite wherever possible. Thus, we are quality crusaders, a title which we hope will be remembered through some of our more radical pages. The book is an attempt to provide an amusing as well as historic review of school year 1977-’78, and we mean no real offense toward anything portrayed within it. Neither, on the other hand, did we hold back when there was any reasonable type of amusement to be squeezed out of our otherwise rather rigid subject matter. There can be one thing said for the book, however: it docs, in its own way, portray reality. Reality with a spicy twist, it’s true, but reality nonetheless. I choose to regard it as a great creative effort. Quite frankly though, it was a hell of a lot of work, and we of the Viking '78 yearbook staff sincerely hope you will enjoy it to the fullest, for that hope is the only compensation which made it all bearable. It was made for you, and even if you hate it, give us a smile and save us from suicide. You can be sure that it will be well taken. I thought it appropriate to present this one last bit of sanity in introduction, as from now on we begin to leave the normal world and travel into one of fantastic ideas, funny expressions, playful satire and true sentimentality — a world where creativity has not been kept in shackles. Read on, Macduff, and behold the wonderful world of GV ... Bon Voyage, and have a great life! „ , 2 Viking Annual. 1978
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