Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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wmimt m wmtmtmtmt Richard Martin stands over his Solar Energy converter. Helene Ruther, an exchange student from Sweden, will be graduating with the class of '78. Here she studies in the library. Sherri Duckworth, winners of the Gong Show, eats her lunch in solitude. Among the stars at GHS there are a few that shine with their own special brillance. They’re not always noticed, but they’ve been there from the start. One of these special stars is a junior, Sherri Duckworth. Anyone who went to the Gong show held at GHS in November of 1977, will understand why. Even though the crowd starting yelling “gong her! before she opened her mouth, she got her chance and dazzled them all with a beautiful job singing I Don’t Know How To Love Him,” from the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar. With that song she received $50 for first prize. Richard Martin, senior, may have the answer to the energy crisis. In Biology this year, he made a solar collector which is a device to heat water. It consists of a wooden box with glass for a top, has copper tubing inside, and rubber hase outside. A generator pumps the water through the rubber hosing. It enters the copper tubing, is heated by the sun coming through the glass top, and goes out through more tubing. Helene Ruther is and easygoing girl at GHS who also happens to be an exchange student from Nassjo, Sweden. Helene likes it here and said it is a great opportunity to get to know another country and its people. The reason she picked the U.S. is because her sister was an exchange student in Washington ten years ago and told her it was great. After this year Helene will be going back to Sweden for her senior year and then maybe she'll be back to go to college here in the U.S. Opening - 3

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-----Table Of Contents--------- v r Opening ......................................1 Student Life .................................6 Activities ..................................34 Sports.......................................66 People ......................................86 Clubs ......................................146 Academics ..................................158 Advertisements .............................176 Index ......................................192 Closing.....................................198 2 - Opening

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 I: If Ever since the day we first came into this world, stars have played a large role in our lives. Do you remember when we were young and our parents sang “When you Wish Upon a Star.’’ After our first week in kindergarten we came home with beaming faces because we had received a star on a paper. As we progressed through the years, we would go out to “star-gaze with a special guy or girl. When we came home from our first date our parents would say we were “starry-eyed During high school years, “stardust” would be sprinkled at dances to add magic and make dreams come true. Every day new television, theater and recording stars are born. In 1976-77 Farrah Fawcett-Majors was a climbing star. Everyone is a star in his own way. You don’t have to do any spectacular thing to be recognized.Everyone has done something that makes them stand apart. The main thing in being a star is being your self. Individualism is what stardom is all about. You don’t think Farrah became a star by copying others, do you? Here at GHS stars are born every day, so keep your eyes and ears open! 4-opening