Memphis University School - Owl Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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Behind an array of playerless headgear, Mike Valentine sits exhausted, sipping his Brake Time and pondering the last few plays of a hot August football practice.

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rrS JUST ANOTHER YEAR Today as we stand at the beginning of another school year . . . spoke Colonel Lynn on a hot August day at opening assembly without air- conditioning in Hyde Chapel. And the school year had begun. The Class of 1976 assumed its stereotyped responsibilities with little reluctance, being either cheerful or sad, childish or mature, rowdy or subdued, honorable or unethical, thoughtful or thoughtless, philosophic or indifferent — whatever the time demanded. And the Class of 1976 provided its set of leaders for each of MUS ' s numerous clubs. councils, teams, parties, lounge discussions, and chapel programs. Underclassmen, too, behaved of their caste. Seventh graders learned to ring musical bells. Eighth graders got to announce their own sports events at assembly. Freshmen were released to the lunch lines of the upper school. Sophs occupied themselves with messing up the lounge, and juniors drove. On 175 mornings we came out Quince, Park, and Poplar Pike to spend the first seven hours of our day at MUS. being and doing much like everyone else had been and done every other year. The year ' s first skit. Lane Carrick, Sam Varner and Steve Barton ' s parody of Father Don ' s Talk-it-out, came complete with records, the other team ' s coach, faulty microphones, and hand-held scripts — just like every other year. 4 OPENING

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fl AW Wiih hopes o ' outlasting the mid-week grind, Lome Curran secludes himself within a three- sided study-carrel in the library.