Kecoughtan High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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Y-E-L-L ... everybody yell! An excited J.V. cheerleader, Jennifer Sporer, urges the football team on to victory against Phoebus. Raising her arms in a victory sign, senior Angela Reeves Intent on a physics lab, seniors Billy Maston and Jeff Nowlin struggle with the problem of proclaims the Warriors, Number One. resistivity while Linda Lopez finds their solution boring. 6 INTRODUCTION

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Table of Contents Special Events Clubs and Organizations Academics and Faculty Community Courses teaching employable skills represent a national trend toward the business of business, and future male secretaries Dar Walker and Kevin Williams, take advantage of Mrs. Joan South ' s typing class. “Figure that I get one tray of eggs every 30 seconds, at $3.30 an hour and 5.5c every minute, that means I earn .. . “ Ron Butler, like a majority of Warriors, enters the working world to pay for the upkeep of cars or clothes.

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“Is the popcorn fresh? How much is it? Mike Broussean wants to be sure he gets his money ' s worth at an early morning bake sale. Warrior Images Draw your bows, Warriors! Prepare for the coming onslaught. You ' re being stereotyped, computerized, dehumanized. Stop before it ' s too late; each of you is an individual, a living, breathing human. Okay, calm down. Surely, each Indian is important to the tribe, but the tribe and the events make history. Although a few faces appear more prominently on the totem pole than others, the annals of history are records of the group as a whole—the group moves the world, the moves are the events. The special events—the incidents, the dances, the get-togethers. These will outlive the participants, the people who made the special events possible. 1977-78 was the year of the Prom without a site, the Homecoming that won the Junior Class high acclaim, the not-so-spirited Spirit Week. The sports—the sweltering summer practices and chilly Friday night football games, the district meets, the scrimmages. The sweat of the average team player was just as painfully spent, yet only the heroics of the champions will be remembered. The clubs and organizations—to serve and honor; to teach and entertain. While extracurricular activities enjoyed a respectable following, the groups did not generate the excitement or intense emotions that are essential to make Warrior history. Looking back, one was aware that the plays and publications made the biggest imprints on the mind. Academics and faculty—the heart of the Kecoughtan educational experience. The teachers and the curriculum were not, in themselves, history-makers, but they offered their charges the tools necessary to reshape the world. Finally, the people—their place assured as a group, not as individuals. The classes, the clubs, the teams — the tribe was all of these. The tribe did not make history for Kecoughtan; the tribe was history. Enjoying a snack at the DECA open house, teachers relax before facing a hectic day in the classroom. INTRODUCTION 7