Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Look again — the story of life within a brick building at 600 Waddell Street. Some say it resembles a factory or a big lavatory because of the tiled walls. Almost 1000 people spent 180 days be- hind these walls. A select so- ciety of students and faculty learning from one another. Whether vocationally, busi- ness, or academically in- clined this learning was the common purpose for our co-existence 5 days a week — only a segment of the American socialization process. Look again at what happened 1973-1974 — re- member the energy crisis: daylight saving time, and walking to school in the dark, arriving in time for a beautiful sunrise, forming carpools, getting a lot more exercise. Two new bicycle racks had to be built to hold the influx of new riders. 55 MPH instead of 70. Longer time but fewer accidents. Odd even license plate days, $3 limit, and under half a tank were supposed to be enforced. However, it wasn ' t as hard as was ex- pected. Remember the crazy weather: School was called off two days in a row — it was too hot to do anything; hot, cold, boiling, freezing. If you don ' t like the weather, wait ' til tomor- row! A snow week’be- fore Christmas, spring buds in January, radiators blowing cold air into freezing rooms due to heat energy reduc- tions. Myriads of potholes in the parking lot knocking cars out of line. Impossible to miss them. Bus-car acci- dents and warnings sixth period partly as a result. Then there were new fads: bells on sneaker sneakers, whistles, streaking, streaking and more streaking. We looked back to the 50 ' s for clothes: platform shoes, halter tops, highwater; rolled up, straight jeans, jean shirts, bowties, longer Opening 3

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PACE 2, clockwise: 1. Valentine ' s Dance — Reese Pinney and Adeline Goldsten, 2. Early morning sunrise on daylight savings time at LHS, 3. Senior-Faculty pep rally — Chief Hays, 4. Goshen — where students go on hot days, 5. Basketball game — LHS vs. Harrison- burg; Luke Veney and Aaron Dock. PACE 3, clockwise: 1. Senior-Faculty game pep rally — Mr. Madison as a cheerleader, 2. Sunset with House Mountain on the right, 3. Twin Falls. 4. Chemistry students — Jeannine Catalano and Marilyn Jonnson. If I could save time in a bottle . .

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The action on the field at the start of the Riverhead ' s game does not please cheer- leader Teresa Filson at all. Waiting in the hall to have pictures taken, Dee Mays plaits Marquita Payne ' s hair in the latest style of corn rowing. Dancing at a soc-hop following a Hurri- cane victory, Mike Hartless gives a big grin to the photographer and a big hug to nis date Karen Lotts. dresses, wild argyle, bobbie and striped knee-high ath- letic socks and huge modern glasses. Perennial behavior carried over from last year: mooning over fountains, loving under stairs and rendez-vous at the next class or at lockers, rowdi- ness, testing sixteen new teachers and substitutes, dissipating on the weekends and sometimes before school, an excellent sports program as usual. Even TOO good — last year with Augusta County in the Valley District. Sportsmanship awards and winning teams go for granted at LHS. The year was marked by a trend to look again at everything we once accepted or dis- agreed with. Dissolution- ment in national govern- ment — Watergate corrup- tion and impeachment pro- ceedings helped cause apathy at the school level. Why an SCA? Abolishing the point system arguments for revision and abolishment. We looked again and abol- ished it. Does the SCA do anything? Apathy rules when ten show up for a clean-up day. Introspection of values, finding one ' s niche at LHS and in life, fighting the sys- tem or living with it in peace. Getting sick of the whole thing and escaping to Goshen and Twin Falls for relaxation. Alcohol and pot are very much a part of some student ' s weekends. Is it really an escape to euphoria or just a bad trip. Letters to the SCARLETTER on apathy. Whose fault is the lack of spirit at games? Who cares? There were innovations: seven instead of five minutes between classes — enough time to socialize with friends or smoke a cigarette or barely get to English class from the shop in time. Ab- solutely NO excuses for being late. Sharp new park- post —