Kecoughtan High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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COMMUNITY-21 Pausing to catch his breath, Mike Vaughan takes a break from Watching over a group of hungry and thirsty students, the exhausting but exciting Pep-Rally activities. Tom Quick explains the reasoning behind the notice above his head. Pounding away on the old ivories, Barry Everett plays his rendition of Smoke on the Water Breathing heavily after his escapade on the ice, Demir Bengol skates at the Hamp ton Coliseum.

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[Sound of car engines . . . clamor of students . . . bell sounds . . . curtain rises.] Heading towards the brick and glass school building, students file past the marque and step onto the sidewalks cir¬ cumventing the school. Passing the green lawns and the scattered trees, they con¬ verge on the building ' s blue doors. Other students walk across the football field and past the tennis courts, while the last of the students traverse the administration parking lot. Finally passing the flagpoles designating the front of the school, the students enter the halls and join the stream flowing down the straight corri¬ dors towards various classes and activi¬ ties. Striding by rows of lockers lining the halls, the students head for the office, the library, or the bookstore before directing their steps towards the first classes of the day. Light reflects from windows placed high above the lockers while colored con¬ struction paper and typed notices block out possible distractions otherwise visible through the rectangular glass panes in the doors. Bright posters taped on the white tiles and cream bricks of the walls call at¬ tention to upcoming meetings and events. Amidst all this, the many sizes, voices, and personalities of the students decorate the school and give it a unique life and charm. [Footsteps in the halls ... slam of lockers ... ring of laughter... curtain falls.] Briefly glancing at his notes, Rob Brown speaks to his class with the form of a true orator. Striding down the hall jp his vest and hat, cowboy” Tim O ' Conner winds up his school day and heads for the corral. Biting her nails with trepidation, Dorothy Karsay watches the progress of an afternoon Varsity football game. 20-SETTING

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Fair Day Fever, a contagious disease, hit Hampton again this year! The fever spread at an uncontrollable rate during the second weekend in September. Al¬ though the cause of the disease remained a mystery, medical examiners linked the fever to the Annual Hampton Fair Day. This event took place the same weekend that the fever became prevalent. The ex¬ aminers felt that the overabundance of entertainment available to the public be¬ came a strain on the mind, eventually overloading anxiety circuits and producing an atmosphere of mass hysteria. To date all attempts to find a perma¬ nent cure for this rampant epidemic have failed. But some steps to alleviate the symptoms of the disease have been found. Many victims discovered that braving the carnival rides at the Fair seemed to be an adequate antidote. Oth¬ ers determined the musical entertainment to be the perfect means of escape. Still others found the concession stands to be the only reliable means for anxiety relief. For those who had experienced Fair Day Fever in the past, there was no need for worry. The over-all consensus of the medical examiners was that this treacher¬ ous disease lasts no longer than twenty- four hours and totally vanishes by the end of Fair Day. Determined to prove that two ' s company and three ' s a crowd, two unwilling Kecoughtan students are flung against a third not too comfortable victim. What could possibly be better than spending a beautiful fall day relaxing on the soft, grass-covered ground and listening to the musical entertainment at the park on Hampton Fair Day? Wondering if the glare of the morning sun has affected the band leader ' s sense of direction, a bewil¬ dered, David Clark loyally follows Jimmy Murphy. 22-COMMUNITY