Jones County Junior College - Lair Yearbook (Ellisville, MS)

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Basketball provides exercise and entertainment and tests agility and speed. t W-w-QQ There is an old saying that reads lt takes all kinds of people to make up a world. This saying also holds true to a school, since it takes all kinds of people, each contributing their own particular talents and skills, to make a successful school year. Different personalities, hobbies, and ambi- tions were portrayed by the students this year, and this variety definitely helped to make the year just a little more interesting. Since so many dif- ferent people were around, it was only natural that each one liked to do different things. The saying could also be changed to read, lt takes all kinds of activities to make a year. JC offered something for everyone. An epidemic of pre-Spring fever hit the campus about mid-February. Sunshine and warm temper- atures brought students out in sleeveless shirts, shorts, and bare feet. VaIentine's Day burst into full bloom with the Carnation sale by the newspaper staff. All over the campus students were wearing flowers, car- rying them and delivering them. Tryouts for positions on the baseball and ten- nis teams excited the spring sports-minded peo- ple, while the annual talent show held in April was fun too. Quarter hours and averages began to be turned in to the guidance office in preparation for graduation. A great class made the graduating list. President Tisdale provides a balanced influence on the progress of the school. Studying can't be dull when we can smile like this in the midst of it. Closing f 247

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The Year of the Cat ---any 5 Sometimes during the winter weeks may pass of damp, cold weather. When the sun does come out again we all want to bask In the sunshme It looks so easy, but isn't, to draw well, like this sketch made in art class. ' i5 X, f fft Right, putting on make-up for Anything Goes required special help and know-how. Z ' t rter 246 I Closing

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Year of the Cat, Entertainment played a great part in the year. Radio, television, books, and movies played a role in each student's education. Songs such as Le Freak, Three Times A Lady, Shake it, Baby, You Don't Bring Me Flow- ers, and Fire, poured out over the air waves, and eyes were glued to the tube as the dramas and adventures of the characters on Days of Our Lives, Vegas, Eight ls Enough, Mork and Mindy, and Three's Company unfolded. Countless hours were spent in dark theaters watching with hyp- notic intensity such movies as Super- man, Every Which Way But Loose, Ice Castles, Foul Play, Oliver's Story, and Magic. lt has been our year - our year of the Cat as we decided to call it - a 248 X Closing cont. good year for most of us. Most of us were happy at JCJC - we liked the place and it became ours. We found people to like and as the days went by we became friends. Some of us made close friends, and the year and the place were better for it. For some the time and the place didn't click. Some learned, some didn't, but we knew it all was ours to do with as we chose. Whatever our choice and the outcome, we have grown, and we have learned. We learned from our mistakes as well as from our successes however small or large. Those who attempted more, demanded more of themselves, gained most. We have discovered and shall prob- ably keep on finding through the rest of the years of our lives that any hour, any place, becomes what we choose to make of it - what we leave with it of ourselves. The place is the same, the buildings, the people are the same we all find when we come here. It is our- selves who are different - we bring different attitudes, different back- grounds, different talents, and what we make of it all is our own. Perhaps what most learned was how to try again - or how to do things differently next time - next year. And if we were lucky, we learned we can do just that because we are all special. Whatever we will remember most of this year, we will always remember that it was a very special year, our last year of the seventies.