Lake Orion High School - Dragon Yearbook (Lake Orion, MI)

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A TlRlNG PART OF ANY CLASS is the homework that must be completed. After a speed-reading exercise, Jill Bullard fills in her answer sheet so she can find out how much she comprehended from the story. ll We have a test today? But I forgot! This will probably happen when you least expect it. Especially when you have stayed up until mid- night working on a project for another class. After you struggle through the test, you turn it in just as the bell is ringing. It's on to second hour, which is Reading Techniques, where your group feels they are ready for five hundred words per minute, but your eyes are just getting accustomed to four hundred words per minute. When your eyes turn into pinwheels, you ask the teacher for a pass to the office because you don't feel well. After she gives you a pass, Caution: Brain Gverload l

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3 LAURA BARCOME, one of the office aides, travels around the halls pollecting absence slips, among other jobs. l ROBIN BRITTON stamps the due date on a book, one of many jobs a brary aide is required to do. l 1 JEFF BOSSARD attends a school board meeting as our representative. llere he waits for Mr. Hoag's speech to be completed. l J I outcome of the vote concluded that open lunch was here to stay: or until students abused their new found privilege. Popular stops for LOHS include McDonald's, Burgerchef, the Con- vience Stop, and the new Tubby's Submarine Shop. Q A-r STEVE REYNOLDS fixes all the unusable equipment as an A.y. aide usually does. SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS-Standing Schoolboard Representative, Jeff Bossard, William Fitzpatrick, Donald Emeigh, Roger Tyrell Seated-Mildred Williams, Vice President James Glaspie, Patricia Taylor, lNot pictured-President Thomas Fishery Academics 177

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,f-wx ,Vg you go to the counselor's office where you take a place in back of the line. Finally, when the secretary has tried unsuccessfully to reach one of your parents, you contently slip into one of the chairs to rest your weary mind. But alas! You spot some pretty colored paper on one of the upper shelves. As you glance through the pile, you notice informa- tion on such topics as why you should join the Army, literature proclaiming the benefits of taking the PSATXNMSQT, ACT, or SAT, and information on every college im- aginable. Feeling woozy all over again, you decide that maybe you can recuperate better in your fourth hour class. But when you walk into your Chemistry ll class, your lab partner informs you that you have a lab due at the end of the hour. So after a grueling hour of filling your head with chemical equations and facts, you happily leave the room to go to lunch. But your mood changes quickly when you find out how long the lunch line is. You're a patient A COMMON BRAIN STFIAIN shared by all high school students is the quality of tests that must be taken throughout the year. Donna Soucy pauses for a moment to be sure she has chosen the right answer. TONY WILSON EXAMINES one ofthe many AND YQUR QUESTIQN IS , , , Annette booklets put out to inform students about the Hamel thinks Over ner question fof the lung- COHSQS emfamie examinations- ing during the 1978 Jr. Miss Pagent. LAST MINUTE STUDYING is always a necessity, done usually between classes, dur- ing lunch, or in other classes. Jim Cygnarowicz finds study hall the perfect place to do his cramming. Academics 179