Great Valley High School - Musket Yearbook (Malvern, PA)

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Becoming Independent i

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Student Life Is A Beginning In Student life includes what happens inside the classroom, during extracurricular activities and on weekends. On a regular school day we go through the periods either anticipating or dreading what is about to happen to us. We look forward to our favorite classes, study halls and lunch. We dread all of the major tests, seminars and term papers that are required. Student life includes being kicked out of the library by Miss Casciola for two weeks, being sent notices from the attendance office for study halls we did not cut, and all of the hassles of passes we must use to get ourselves in and out of classes. Student life is also a lot of fun things like going to football and basketball games and then to Friendly ' s afterwards. It ' s going shopping and meeting a group of friends at Exton Mall. It ' s working at the Girls ' Leaders car wash at Central Penn. Finally it is graduating from Great Valley to begin to explore new possibilities. 4 Introduction

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Our C ltFy Begins Its Third Century With Following the celebration of America ' s Bicentennial, 1977 marks a new beginning for the UniLed States. After leading the country out of many difficulties, Gerald Ford left the presidency. We start our next one hundred years with a new President who represents a different point of view from those of the past. Jimmy Carter is a peanut farmer Democrat from the Deep South who is definitely very different from any President to be elected in quite some time. He promotes a casual lifestyle by wearing jeans and flannel shirts and promises fireside chats like those of F.D. R. In the winter of 1976-1977 there was a major natural gas shortage throughout the United States. This was, in part, caused and intensified by extreme cold temperatures in even the south- ernmost states. Governor Milton Shapp was forced to close all Pennsylvania schools for three days in late January in order to conserve fuel. While students got a winter vacation, unemployment rose as many companies were forced to lay off workers. The effects of this winter ' s hardships will be felt far into the future. The new administration, severe winter weather and fuel crisis will help us develop a new vision and direction in years to come. 6 Introduction