Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Vice-Principal John Whitesell helps set up equip- ment on the stage for a performance. Tony Perron shows students his expert guitar skills during the assembly. (8) 6) 616) 6) Members of Southern Comfort serenade some The symphonic band gladly plays another tune ad ladies sitting in the front of the gym- for the audience. asium. Music Month 29

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Welcome Distractions March was Music Month and this year, LHS students were treated to four performances by four very di- verse performers. The first assembly dealt with jazz music, and took place on Wednesday, March 8. Jimmy Heath, the leader of the Jimmy Heath Quartet, described jazz music as a marriage between European harmony and African rhythms. The band played various songs including ‘‘Body and Soul,” “Take the A Train,’ ‘‘Blue Bassa,’’ “Bluesville,”’ and a Jimmy Heath orig- inal ‘‘A Time And A Place.” The Quartet consists of guitarist Tony Perron, drummer Akita Tana, bassist Ben Staf- ford, and of course Jimmy Heath. They provided students with some back- ground on various music types and in- struments. The second assembly, which was on Wednesday, March 15, was a concert by Crucial, a local Reggae band. Students were surprised by the free- dom given to them by the administra- tion which included letting the students sit on the floor instead of the 28 Music Month usual chairs and bleachers. The mem- bers of the band include Lance Foster on drums, Chris Worsham on percus- sion, Willie Mack on keyboards, Jenny Newmark on keyboards and vocals, Jim Shurer on flute, Bob Clarke on bass, and Chris Leva on guitar and vocals. The name of the band was taken from a shop in Jamaica that is owned by a friend of the bass player. The band came together shortly after Bob Clarke played a benefit in Jamaica for the survivors of Hurricane Gilbert. During the assembly, Shurer told the students a lot of information about Reggae. He explained the important part cheap transistor radios played in the development of the Reggae sound. Jamacians could afford to pur- chase those radios. They heard AM Rock (which was mostly soul and blues) and mixed it with Carribean rhythm to create today’s Reggae. He also explained a theory that all instru- ments came from hollow logs. Long ago, when people wanted to dance, they used sticks and logs to make a beat. Modern instruments basically evolved from that. The third assembly, on Wednesday, March 22, was put on by our own sym- phonic band. They played several songs which they had also played for Festival. They included ‘‘Sonata for | Winds,” “Folk Song “Suites “Noblemen,” and ‘March.’ Another | song which they did not play at Fes- tival but did play at the assembly, was ‘“Majestia.”’ The fourth and final assembly was on Wednesday, March 29. Southe rn Com- fort, a group of young men from Wash- ington and Lee University, entertained students with their unique sense of humor. They performed mostly show | tunes and some oldies. They managed | to include several members from the © audience in their show, also. These wonderful performers were a welcome distraction for LHS students during the month of March. They were both educational and entertaining. Bet you never thought music could be both! — Bobbie Jo Clawson Crucial tears up the stage at their concert. Be- cause of the overwhelming response they got from the audience, they have been chosen to play at the senior’s graduation party.

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Ghost Stories and Mr. Whippy At 7:45 A.M. on Sunday, May 7, 1989, outside of Lexington High School you could see 27 Advanced Biology stu- dents ready to load on the school bus to head out to Wallop’s Island. It didn’t take us long to figure out that this was going to be along and interesting trip. With Mr. Ferguson's driving tech- niques, Marty Bedell having to stop every hour fora restroom and the gov- ernor on the bus that made our top speed 45 mph, the trip took over 8 hours. When we finally reached the Marine Science Consortium and saw the rooms we had to stay in, you could have knocked everyone over with a feather. We were ready to sleep on the bus, but with a lot of encouragement we decided to make the best of it. Later on we met Charles and Lisa, our guides and teachers throughout our stay. They gave an informative lecture on the use of the equipment to be used. We returned to our rooms in time to have a little fun. Gossiping and Masaki Shibaiki’s ghost stories were the high- light of the entire day. Day 2 Wake up, shower and then breakfast at 8! We then went beach combing, studied sand dunes, and collected shells and other beach things. We then identified what we had found. After returning to the Consortium an unexpected and simply wonderful surprise came by. It was MR. WHIPPY, Dan “The Man” Lyons shows Off his acting ability in pretending to play frisby on the beach. 30 Field Trip an old man in an ancient ice cream truck with the most excellent ice cream on earth. This was the happiest we'd been for 2 days. We were then ready to go out into the salt marsh to learn more about the land which was affected by tides. We expected a little mud but what we got was an abundance. Within the blink of an eye we were found waist deep in mud. After the departure from the marsh the dorms didn’t look quite so bad. That night we decided to build a fire on the beach. We gathered firewood, shoved it in the back of the bus and headed out for Assateaque Island where we roasted marshmallows, ate smores, and played frisby. A few went swimming while others stayed around the fire to keep warm and listen to even more of Masaki’s ghost stories. We returned to the Consortium and had a feast consisting of 6 pizzas and 7 pounds of shrimp. Afterward we all got together on the lawn outside the dorm and had an entertaining evening watching Jayson Wilburger show off his ability to do the unexpected and seemingly impossible. When the ac- tion was over we turned in and went to sleep. Day 3 The day started out as the previous, then off to our first class of the day. We went onto a boat where we performed many tests and collected many dif- ferent organisms. Later we went to Tom’s Cove where we collected num- | erous plants and animals both on the | shore and in the water with the nets. | We went back to the slightly harsher | ocean on Assateague Beach, sawsome | wild ponies, and found the two dif- | ferent types of crabs found there. After returning to campus we ate dinner then had the lab where we ob- | served the things we had found and caught that day. This was where we realized that we could identify all the crabs, most of the microscopic or- ganisms, sea urchins, different types © of flounder, an oyster toad fish, and | large majority of the other plants and | animals found. This enlightened us to the ocean and showed us that the pur- | poses of the ocean and land surround- ing it are very important to all of us. Day 4 There was a hectic day with every- one trying to get everything packed, cleaning Our rooms and labs and packing everything on the bus. After this was accomplished we set out on | our expedition to the Maritime Forest | and visited a light house. Finally we were on our way home | (45mph again). Slowly but surely we completed the trip. We got back in Lexington around 8:00 P.M. on Wednesday May 10, 1989, but we will — never forget these four days of enjoy- ment and misery that were done in style like never before. — Karen Morris