Marion High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Marion, VA)

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ndy Tiller and Herbert Clay practice for a •et. Who? Tiny minute dots floating in a sea of more important things!” This must be the way the Cross Country Track and Girls’ Basketball teams felt this year as they went practi¬ cally unnoticed . . . AGAIN! Even though they compiled some of the best records of any of the school teams, with the girls’ basket¬ ball team winning the district cham¬ pionship, their pep rallies did not .echo through the halls, great ban¬ ners were not erected in their honor, and very few people even knew the members of the squads. So, they remained relatively quiet, and did not become perturbed when the roaring crowds did not appear in their stands or their names uttered from everyone’s lips. They worked in the simple, but forceful ways of a winning team. Miss Duncan shouts obscenities at a game. The only way to win is to run! Beth Bauman and Donna Ewald practice new dance S ' -,- Crowds at Girls Basketball games may not be very big—but they sure are loud. Ellen Farrington and Cathy Reith discuss the rules game with the ref. 17

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Hop Hop Hop A flicker, a flame, a light, a shining beacon on which the de¬ serving juniors were ushered into the Beta Club realm before the en¬ tire student body. This was a solemn assembly in which the underclassmen were “tapped” with the shining white symbolic candle and were thus recognized for out¬ standing scholastic achievement. The graveness soon gave way to the true test of a candidate’s char¬ acter as they were forced to hop, run, sing, beg, plead, and other¬ wise humiliate themselves to the delight of the “Mighty Senior Betas!” It was all taken in good stride, though, as the juniors started planning their revenge for next year, just a few months early! Joe Ellis lights his candle and promises to keep the Beta pledge. Burciiett seems slightly surprised when she is tapped Brenda Bass taps Peggy DeBord. ■ Musser. 16

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Football! Boog Hart concentrates on game from bench Greedy Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Sullivan enjoy handling all the money collected at the home games. Go Red! yells Rhoda Blevins. ■ .trongly disagrees with a referees Mr. Hurricane shows his own pride in Big Red. 18