Kellam High School - Challenger Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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5 Y' 'CS xg' N wrap ls, f ' Iv Teri Schaffer consults Mike Riggs on her physics lab. KARYN L. RHODES. Gymnastics 10.11. DARRYL D. RICHARDSON. General Activities. RANDY W. RIDDICK. General Activities. HOLLY M. RIGGS. FHA 10: Cheeleader 10: Home- coming Court 10,11.12: Ir. Senate: Sr. Senate: Na- tional Honor Society 11.12: Ir. Miss Contestant: NHS Leadership Workshop 12. MICHAEL R. RIGGS. Baseball 10.11.12. PEGGY E. RIKER. General Activities. PENN! A. RISER. DECA 10,11 lChapl.J, 12 lChapl.l. TERESA M. RISPOLI. Spanish Club 11. IVAN RIVIERA. IR. General Activities. MARY L. ROBERTS. SCA 10,12: Homecoming Court 10,123 Drama Club 11: Ir. Senate: Sr. Senate. CHARLES W. ROBINSON. General Activities. 'AMES D. ROBINSON. Future Farmers of America 11 PATRICIA G. ROBINSON. FBLA 11: Keyettes 11.122 COE 12. CARLA R. ROEBUCK. Drama Club 10: junior Achievement 10: SCA 11: VHSI. Drama Workshop 10: DECA 11,12 lHist.l: 1st Place - DECA Competi- tiD!l 11. TERESA A. ROGERS. FHA 1O.11.12: Spanish Club 10: Gymnastics 11: Monogram Club 11,12: Ir. Senate: Sr. Senate: SCA 12. MAUREEN F. ROGGE. General Activities.

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Tony Arnold. Robert Perkins, Dan Cornell, Nicky Coppino. and Eddie 0'Brien wait to rehearse for the DECA fashion show Hi KAREN E. POLETTI. Color Guard 10,11 iRifle- Captl. 12: junior Civitan 10,11 lVice Pres.l, 12: Soph. Senate: NHS Leadership Workshop 11. Soccer 101 Young Life 12. Who's Who in American High School Students 12. Bl'.'l'H G. POOL. Iunior Achievement 11.12. RICHARD A. POWELL. Spanish Club 10.11.122 Mayors Youth Council 10.11.12IYOuLl1 City Clerkl. SHAWN L. POWELL. German Club 10.11.12 lPres.lg NHS Leadership Workshop 12: ICC 12: industrial Arts Club 12g Who's Who Among Amaicnn High School Students 12. ROYDON S. PRATT. German Club 10: NIROTC 10.1 1.12, Chlllenglr Staff 12 lPhotographerl. LAURA I. PRAZMARK. Gymnastics 10.111 Mono- gram Club 1U.11.12. Who's Who Among American High School Students 12. SHARON E. PRICE. General Activities. susm L Piucz. sf Senate- GR ' A ' lfuolbaill 10.11.12 Iilupl D, nnlvgr1itnf.lul: 10.11.12 KANDI RAY. tailor t,uurd 10,1 1. Sr Senutu. Young l.ilv' ll ti1.l'.NN tj. REDMON. IR. VIIQA 11.12 LINDA M. RAYNULDS. hmmml Activitiun. 'af-1' X- Vitol There is a lot of pressure that goes along with being the best. and Risa Huff is feeling that pressure. Before the 1978 bas- ketball season began, Risa was declared the best in the beach by several sports writers for the Virginia Beach Beacon. During the games it is easy to see that Risa dominates the floor. Her wizardry with the ball completely flabbergasts the opposing team. She has been the top scorer in most of the games and has been a member of the All-Beach team since her sophomore year. Risa, however, is quick to give credit to her teammates. Basketball is a team sport and one person can't win the game. Although Risa does stand out from the rest of the team, she considers herself one of the gears in a vital, functioning machine. 1

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LRAIG A ROSENBERG. General Activities. DONALD A ROY 1,1-'neral Actixitue IAMES R. RVTLEDGE. lffl' 11 12 S S at TERRELL L. RUTLEDGE. Madrigals 101 Soph Sen- ate. SCA lU 11.12. Regional Chorus 10: Latin Club 1 it 11.11 'ire Pres 1. 12: National Honor Society 10.11 12 tPresl. lr Senate: Sr Senate. Cheerleading 11.1.2 NSF Summer Program li. Monogram Club 12: IU. l2 Who's Who in American High School Stu- dents 12. Outstanding Senior f0ptimistl 12, Cirl's State 12. Ledger-Star Scholastic Achievement Team. DANA L. SALMONS. General Activities CYNTHIA K. SANDLIN. l-'HLA 10 lCorr. Sect, 115 Math Club 12 Appealing in any era. Holly Riggs sports her 50's garb. ins.. Sharing o Culturol War-related holocaust and persecution seem to be the problems of another genera- tion, and because this genera- tion's wars have not been fought on home soil, the tragedy of conflict is reduced to a clicking of tongues and is soon forgotten. Two Kellam cit- izens, Can Quack and his cousin Hoa Lam, will not forget the effects of war on their Viet- nam homeland and are settling happily and more contentedly in America. Spokesman for the two, Can Quack says that the Com- munists who took over were nothing more than terrorists, falling short of the image of the American soldiers to whom he had talked and with whom he was impressed. This character judgement led Can, his cousin lloa l.am, and five others to plan an escape from Vietnam in May of 1978. Ten pieces of gold to the right friend in the right place assured the seven a passage on a freighter to Malaysia, and the escape seemed certain. Some- how, the Communists discov- ered the plan, however, and sent gunboats after the freight- er. Outrunning the gunboats was futile, but the attempt was made, ending in, of course, the capture of the escapees. Although they were told that their lives would be spared if they returned to Vietnam, Can, Hoa, and their five companions knew that returning to that country would mean certain death. Mustering the daring, courage, and intestinal for- titude ahead for such a scheme, the Vietnamese turned the freighter around and headed for Malaysia. Amid gunfire and against all odds, the freighter played open-sea tag with the gunboats for two hours before reaching the Malaysian coast and final asylum. The few days of waiting on the coast was nothing in com- parison to the war victim camp, and it is at this point that Can 'ie . ' A Shock and Hoa leap to the foreground of the story, and the other five escapees fade from view. They waited off-shore until they could be admitted into the camp, so over-crowded with fugitives that the Malaysian government has since had to begin refusing Vietnamese ad- mission to the country. The four months in the camp were spent arranging for Can's brother, an American citizen, to sponsor Can and Hoa to the United States. Since mid-September, when Can and Hoa entered Norfolk's Granby High School, the two have been facing the life of the American schoolperson, com- plete with new values, cus- toms. roles, and language. Now at Kellam. they seem to have found their niche. Individuals who have survived such a cul- tural shock and have been able to benefit from it make Kellam, as a whole. stronger in charac- ter. C