Mercer County High School - Highlander Yearbook (Harrodsburg, KY)

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Throughout this festive season, course, just before Christmas, with it. Students dreamed of a everyone hustled through the semester exams came flying around white covered ground and early streets hurriedly going about his the corner and knocked everyone dismissal from school. The dream business. Christmas was just down. Panic started students every- came true, and two weeks were around the corner, and there were where prayed that Christmas vaca- missed with only one day in school, basketball games about every night. tion would arrive quickly. As the first snow melted away, the The clubs worked heartily to help All during the winter season, heavens became even whiter and those in need in the community. students crowded into the gym to expelled four and a half inches of For a MCHS student, winter is the see an orange ball dribble up and snow on Mercer County. The busiest season of all. down the floor. The new coaches in students were overjoyed, and the The busiest part of the winter both girls’ and boys’ basketball vacation deeply appreciated ... season was Christmas. Christmas made this season especially excit- until it hit them that those two shopping had to be done, Christmas ing. weeks had to be made up. parades had to be attended, and The new year arrived and Christmas pageants won. And, of expectations of graduation arrived

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1. Linda Lewis eagerly takes a jump off the bus and heads for the warm school building. 2. To bring Christmas spirit to school, Tom Earley, Iva God by, and David Lyons decorate the front hall. 3. The 1983 Snow Queen, Bobbe Wiley, rides in the annual Christmas Parade in Harrodsburg. 4. The early January snowfall makes students rejoice. 5. Not being old enough to go to a big Friday night game sure doesn’t cramp Earl Pinkston’s and Mark Young’s style. Every free second they play their own game with cheering spectators. 6. To make money for a chorus trip, Cindy Crowder sells balloons. 7. Wonder what Beth Johnstone and Sally Bishop want for Christmas ... Or are they just flirting with Santa? 6 Opening 5

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ON THE BORDER “It Is so small a thing, to have lived light in the Spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have 1. Cindy Tewmey, Greta Shew- maker and Kindra Reed en- joy themselves while eating pizza at Mr. Gatti’s. 2. Appearing on the Senior float during the homecoming parade are Beth Rogers, John Ruby, and Trava Hurst. 3. Becky “B” and Becky “T” enjoy refreshments at Gina Goodman’s Christmas party for the girls basketball team. 4. Lee Readnower shows Tonya Tyler that there are still gentlemen around. Tr T done.” Matthew Arnold 8 Student Life