Groveton High School - Tigerama Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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A voice comes over the P.A. Please pardon the interruption. Will John Doe please report to Mr. Price ' s office. A wave of mass sympathy for John Doe passes over the school. Visions of John sweating it out in front of a human brick wall pass through everyone ' s mind. What ' d he doP What ' ll Price do to him? To many Groveton students, Charlie Price is just a voice over the P.A. To others, he is an awesome figure (some say bear-ish), walking the halls looking for skippers. Most students, if asked, would say that it ' s best to stay on Mr. Price ' s good side. But there are a lot of things students don ' t know about Mr. Price. Very few, if any, students know that Mr. Price didn ' t set out to be an administrator. He started out playing football. At Parker-Gray High School in Alexandria, he was a tackle (good practice for administration?). His senior year he was team captain (with a graduating class of 32 students, he was also the drum major and was involved in student government and the choir). At Virginia State College, where he earned the nickname Bruiser, he became a fullback, making All-American in 1946. After finishing college, Mr. Price returned to Alexandria to teach history at Parker-Gray. In 1947, he was drafted by the Los Angeles Dons of the All American Confer¬ ence. After working with the L.A. team for several weeks, Mr. Price was sent to play for the Hawaiian Warriors to get more experience. As first-string fullback, he helped lead the Warriors to the Pacific Coast League championship in 1947. The next year Mr. Price was teaching Health and P.E. and coaching football and basketball at Addison High School in Roanoke. After 1 1 years, he moved to Fairfax to coach football and track at Luther Jackson High School. In 1964, Jackson won the state tournament with an undefeated record of 9-0. In 1965, Mr. Price went to Langley High School where he made history. He became the first black head coach in Northern Virginia. He coached at Langley for 5 years. Mr. Price came to Groveton in 1970 and now after 10 years is making plans to retire at the end of the year. It ' s really a shame that most students don ' t get past the authoritative front of the administrators. Mr. Price is fascinating to talk to — and he loves to talk. He has a reputation with many faculty members as a great story teller. He loves to talk about fishing, his favorite pastime. He jokes about the times that he ' s spent whole days on the ocean in chartered fishing boats, catching either sharks or nothing at all. Mr. Price also enjoys talking about gardening; he takes great pride in his azaleas which, he says, he sticks in the ground anywhere he can dig around the tree roots. To most students, Mr. Price will always remain a voice on the P.A. and a human brick wall. But the few lucky ones who get a chance to talk to him will remember Mr. Price as a friendly, concerned, and funny man. It is somehow very rewarding to discover that administrators can be people too. 29

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SENIOR PRINCESSES: — L to R — Laura Mead, Kathy Arata, Colleen Murphy, Simone Goring, Joan Sheridan, Denise Rippert, Mary Ann Cromley, Sheila Jones, Adneatria Parker. Not Pictured: Kappie Cook, DeeDee Mechling, Maria DeGiorgi. UNDERCLASS PRINCESSES: — L to R — Ellen Arata, Sarah Bleakley, Isabelle Krause, Kim Freeman, Tracy Hackney, Shawn Ware. 30