James Monroe High School - Echo Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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Fomecoming Parade unity ana ANDREA MANOLIS dances the Can-Can on the French Club float. } THE THEME of unity is personified by the Cross-Country team’s float. Spirit Men were in togas; Girls danced the Can-Can. Were you in Rome? Paris’? No, it was Washington Avenue as the homecoming parade passed by. Even the weather showed the theme “unity and spirit’ as the threateningly cloudy skies did not rain. The float that best illustrated the theme of unity was the cross-country float. A huge “JIM” mounted on a float wagon was pulled by typical James Monroe students — a scholar, a jock, a hockey player, awerewolf, a football player, and a hockey player. Their unity won them first place. The Key Club’s classic cars gave a unique twist to the parade. The foreign language clubs added a little foreign flavor. The football with the remains of a Spotsylvania Knight hung by his neck. All the floats roared onto the field to celebrate the “ESPRIT” that can only be found at James Monroe. float was decorated TOM YOUNG and Kirk Edwards don their togas for the Latin Club float

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THE BAND PLAYS the schoo! song to get the JENNIFER JOHNSON, Dawn Reynolds, and pep-rally started. Rhonda Jackson work on the Monroe Singer float. “GANGSTER” Mike Puig protects the Key Club Float’s riders. Ff ee eedcd or ee (HH s. ' }

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AND the Winners are. . . Homecoming Court 1985! THE BAND STRIKES up another chorus of “On the banks of the Rappahannock.” GEORGE COGHILL congratulates Karen Young, our reigning princess while Mr. Durtan gets ready to crown the Queen. A RARE SITUATION. . off guard . Jeon Johnson caught 16 Student Life Spirit and Unity There was victory and mystery in the air as a foggy mist covered the field On Homecoming night. The Jackets dominated the Spotsylvania Knights with a 17-14 win to continue their tradition of “Taking Care of Busi- ness.’’ Saturday night the fog cleared; and as October frost moved in, the students headed for the James The Homecoming Court winners received their Monroe cafeteria. introductions during a ceremony that began the dance. The winners of the freshman class were Andy Withers and Libby Farmer. For the sophomores, John Walker, George Coghill, Susan Dunnigan, and Elizabeth Blackmon. The junior class gave us Antonio Coghill, Tom Young, Dara Delamere, Dede Powell, and our Prince and Princess, John UlJ.P.) Johnson and Karen Young. The mighty seniors on the court were Sean Jordan, Deon Johnson, Shawn Holland, Brooke Middleton, Michelle Edwards, and Kathyrn Sullivan. At the head of the court were the King Kirk Thompson and Her Majesty Caroline and Queen: His Majesty, McMillin. The prince and princess respectively took their dance follow- ing the King and Queen.