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

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News — 9 Governor Jay Rockefeller, re-elected to Some of the litter that was distributed across his second term, speaks at Fetterman campus daily. Park dedication. Money became important in 1981. Reduced budgets threatened the closing of schools. The winter was light, but Taylor County closed schools four days during the year due to bad weather.

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News at GHS: School zapped by vandals At times it seemed as if the world existed only within the confines of the school. But news that effected students varied from close to home to around the world. In Washington, Ronald Reagan was elected president and later shot. In Iran, the American hostages were freed to a frenzy of hometown patriotism. In Charleston, Jay Rockefeller reduced state spending in the wake of a national coal strike which reduced tax revenue and threatened to close schools. At GHS, however, the cold winter morning of March 3 was the low point of the year. Vandals, who had destroyed school property all year, cut down two Dogwoods which had graced the campus for 25 years. Along with grafitti in the building, vandalism almost tarnished a Taylor-made year. Unknown vandals zapped the locker8 with magic marker8. One of the many broken window8 in the building. This problem was a chronic one that necessitated thousands of dollars of repairs. 8 — News

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Zapped ... A. James Manchin. West Virginia Secre-tary of State, struts across the gym floor to present a state flag to the band prior to their leaving for Washington, D.C. as the state's representative in the Cherry Blossom Festival. The expressions of Kathy Keener. Sybil Poling. and Connie Patrick, seniors, show the casual attitudes that accompanied the bomb threats made to the school in February. 10 — News