Laurel Park High School - Koine Yearbook (Martinsville, VA)

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School is a Meeting Place I OPPOSITE PAGE CLOCKWISE; During half-time of a varsity basketball game, the Pom-pom squad performs Basketball season brings fans to watch the game and gives friends a chance to socialize A collage of con- temporary America covers a wall in Ms Patricia Tolers room Charlotte Carter waits on the risers for music class to begin THIS PAGE CLOCKWISE After the regional festival, the band waits for their bus In mechanical drawing, Mr Marvon Blair checks Tim Hairfleld ' s work KOINE staff members enioy a free afternoon during their training workshop In the mornings before the locker bell rings, seniors talk in the front hall A skit for Veterans ' Day shows courage reflected in song Testing is serious IS for sophomores .!? gl ljig SiS| i .il J f r d liy . v.

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From the beginning of this year, he had made a change by simple conver- sation He believed it might also work to change other peoples ' attitudes toward each other and toward their school. His school was only six years old, and it was true that the building leaked, the air-conditioning and heat- ing system often worked when they shouldn ' t, and it was getting crowded. But it was kept clean and the vanda- lism that plagued many schools was still at a minimum. The school had become a meeting place. For the second time, the Re- gional Band performed here. The Forensics One-Act play was perform- ed here. Cross Country ' s Piedmont District Meet was here. Just as summer began, the tennis courts were completed. Because of the seat- ing number, the gym was the place for the basketball tournament The volleyball tournament in the spring was at LP because of the central location. A Blood Mobile sponsored by the SCA drained donaters in the gym, and under the roof of his school went a lot of meetings that were just between people. ' ■£. ' .fSi I ' •t.i (

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School Closes Like A Curtain The closing was coming. It would come like the closing of the stage cur- tain after the performances of The New Virginia Company, The Way- side Theater, and the Veteran ' s Day assembly. It was sad for him to think about leaving so much by graduating. But, he looked from his classring to his other hand and saw a future he could not deny.