Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

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Baby, It’s COM) Outside! It’s always nice to get a cou- ple of snow days off from school — but 3 weeks? Well, that’s what happened this past winter when old man winter decided to snow-cap Hocking Valley. Sub-zero temperatures, cutbacks on gas and frozen water pipes seemed to mass up during the weeks of Jan. 14 — Feb. 4. We’d been in school for 3 days of the new year, and then in two days a foot of white stuff fell in Hocking County. Sleds, ski masks, and winter under- wear were uncovered from storage and put to good use. At first it was nice to have no worries of homework on your mind. You quickly became so spoiled by getting up at noon and going to sleep at two in the morning, that it was tough to get back on the regular routine when we had to — Feb. 11. Logan hadn’t had this much snow in decades and Florida . . . they had never seen snow until the Winter of ’77 — when it sprinkled an inch. The rush was on to purchase sleds and collect snow balls. But the freezing weather did do great damage to the fruit growers’ crops. You saw that as the prices rose in oranges and gra- pefruits. A drastic shift in normal wind patterns brought weather from the Arctic Circle as far south as Texas. Requests from Columbia Gas of Ohio to major industries to use gas at mainte- nance levels caused severe problems in Logan. Logan schools were lucky.” The Hocking Community Hospital converted to fuel oil, thus it had a surplus of gas. Logan City School bought this extra gas allowing us to go to school through March 31 with no heat problems. But while we were going to school, Columbus schools were using various buildings to house students for their Schools without School program. And Alaska . . . they were basking in one of the warmest winters on record. We may never see another winter like that, but we’ll always remember the cancella- tion of semester exams, heavy underwear, sliding on icy roads and oh yes, — when it snows, it pours. 10 Winter Weather

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You have to start things out with a smash and that’s what Mike Byers does at the beginning of the Homecoming game. The drama and suspense of each play the football team performed kept the fans on their toes cheering them on. The Homecoming court consisted of Tina Brooks. Butch (Cellar: Lisa Fidler. Woody Hicks: Tammy Mount. Jan Myers: Ruth Wesselhoeft. |ohn Dolli- son: Tesa Korn miller. Chuck Farrar. The Waverly Tigers iust couldn't stop the brave and determined Chieftains. Logan won by a forceful score of 53-0. Photos by Bob Ott. Beverly Studio Homecoming 9

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Sparc time during three weeks of no school allowed hours to be spent out in the snow either skating, sled riding or constructing sculptures. Streets were unusually quiet since it was hazardous to drive on snow and ice-covered roads. At request by Columbia Gas tempera- tures were set at a nippy 55 degrees while school was not in session. Everything was frozen and snow-cov- ered when old man weather poured more snow on Logan. Winter Weather 11