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

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Whenever anything happens to you, your friends are the first to know. The definition of a friend is a person known well and liked. Is that completely true? Some think the best friend a person can have is one they don't know well. Or someone you make friends with while on vacation and will never see again. Anyway things work out, a good friend always seems to overlook your bad points. My friends may get mad at me, but they never try to change me, said Yvonne Bolyard, junior. Friends are biographies of your life: knowing secrets and stages that you’ve held and Hxi' passed through with both success and failures. A friend is someone who helps you anyway they can, even unintentionally. For example, a friend might take away your boyfriend. This leaves you to realize he is a jerk. You both know deep inside that she didn’t save you from him on purpose — but friends aren’t perfect. FRIENDS SHARE COMMON inter-csts and these friends, Missy Hedrick and Kelly White, juniors, both like singing. On their way to South Carolina with the Entertainers, they share a seat together on the bus. But, despite your differences, you both share feelings of happiness and sorrow and they basically make up a large part of everyone’s world. Therasa Shipp, senior, said, A friend to me is someone who will help you out in hard times. Friends: you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them. — Lori Shriver FRIENDS SOMETIMES COME up with crazy ideas and these close friends show the people at the Homecoming dance their unique greeting signal. Friends 11

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JUST HANGING OUT together at lunch are good friends Chris Trickett. Joe Canfield. Scott Willis. Harry Davis, Craig Watkins and J.D. Scritchfield. juniors. THREE VERY GOOD friends. Kim Rogers, Rachel McDonald and Kristy Rollins, juniors, do almost everything together. Here, they dress alike for Beach Day during Homecoming Week. 10 Friends

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In the summer months, many students look forward to the days of staying home and sleeping in, eating whenever they want and doing whatever they wish. For many students, though, they pack their suitcases and grab their sleeping bags and off to camp they go. Sport camps are the major camps attended by students. Joan Hines, junior, attended volleyball and basketball camps over the summer. Volleyball camp was held at the high school. However, she traveled to Phillipi to attend the basketball camp at Alderson-Broaddus College. Camp is fun. You meet so many different people from other places, Joan said. Junior Todd Alonso attended the Don Nehlen Mountaineer Football Camp in Morgantown. The camp helped the players to learn techniques of blocking and tackling. Another popular camp that many students attend is 4-H. It is usually held in July at Camp Toweles in Grafton. There they learn new crafts, how to cook and care for children. Mike Curry, Ken Gould, Dave Singleton and Tammy Rogers, seniors, attended the Governor's Honors Academy at West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon from July 1-27. The purpose of the camp was to broaden our horizons, prepare us for college and to have a good time, said Curry. The varsity cheerleaders attended a National Cheerleading Association Camp in July at Wesleyan College. The squad took first runner-up for a trip to the national cheerleading competition held in Florida. Both varsity andJ.V. won a spirit stick every night. The varsity squad brought home three blue ribbons and one red ribbon, while theJ.V.'s brought home four red ribbons. — Clarissa Wooddell PART OF THE annual ritual at band camp is the orientation of the freshmen members. Here. Brian Westerman gets initiated by dressing as a baby. AN EGG TOSS takes careful concentration and a lot of muscle coordination as shown on the face of Mike Curry, senior, who participates in one of the games at the Governor's Honors Academy. 12 Camps