Kecoughtan High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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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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The history of the Indian tribe vacillated between extremes; times of war and times of peace, days of unrest and days of apathy. The Warriors reflected a growing national trend—a conservative outlook, a more materialistic attitude, a political apathy. The blue-jeaned protestors of the preceding ten years reluctantly gave way to a youth more conscious of Pierre Cardin than Bob Dylan. Drugs lost their cultural popularity as a means of defiance. Kecoughtaners were more likely to go on the war path for social status than for social reform. Yet, this transformation was more than a simple reversion to bourgeois interest. Warriors, like most Americans, were more satisfied with their way of life. A returning confidence was the over-riding mood on the reservation — a complacency. Shining plexiglass and colorful pop-art are trade-marks indicative of Electric Glass, one of the imaginative shops springing up and revitalizing old Hampton. Is it a picture of me, a picture of me? Kim Taylor and Laura White distribute school portraits to underclassmen, eager to catch a glimpse of themselves. The past alongside the present-ruins like this old battlement doorway dot nearby Ft. Monroe reminding passerbys of a bygone era—replete with drab dungeons and antebellum mansions. ■ ' ■ r.-i ' .V- s Jr m ' •» 3KK

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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