North Rowan High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Spencer, NC)

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AKI ooking in the mirror makes you look at your face. As you get up each morning you have to decide what face you'll wear for the day. Actually, you'll need several faces, so looking in the closet you select several to take with you. Arriving at school, you slip into your I am so cool face as your friends approach. Later, as class begins you put on your serious I am really getting into this face for the teacher. When the teacher believes your face and asks you a question, its time for a quick change to your never let them see you sweat face. As the day goes on you hide your feelings behind the handy mask of your face, or use it to let the whole world know how you feel. Still later, an annual photographer comes along and you bring out your I am really a ham face with expressions your face seldom gets to make. Its fun to let your face have a moment of freedom. Then its back to work as you go to your bus and prepare to go home where you plan to let your face relax and just be a tired face after a long day's work. Stephanie Michael and Darren Turner. t bandS 'hge qi rubbze' 50areS I i h glare mad Fallln Well. with nas S, To C- Cro lsextisfalflt by 8 X Making Faces S. 's T N KR I 'l

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I a n u 5 ' ' QF! F A C I N G l i t's two o'clock in the morning and you still have two more pages to type on a research paper due tomorrow. You know that you shouldn't have put it off until now, but there were so many other things you had to do. Now the equiva- lent of an exam grade hangs in the balance. The tension in your stomach fights the weight of your eyelids. Facing stress is an everyday event. Everyone has demands made upon them. It may be harder for high school students because of the newness of it. Now you have to worry about getting the grades to get into college, about playing well enough to get on the team, about play- ing well enough to be on a winning team. There never seems to be a quiet moment for yourself, to stop and find out who you are, to decide slowly and surely what you really want. Instead, life becomes a runaway ride on a carrousel gone crazy. Grades, dating, job, car, social status, and the looming question of the future all combine to make a heavy weight to carry. They make the face worn, tired, and give it the lines that come with maturity. The rea- son seniors look so different from freshman is not just that they are four years older, but they are tested and tried, by four years of stress. But, relax and remember that the seniors survived their time here. After all, just as the pain of working out gives you increased ability to perform, so do the stresses of each day give you increased strength to handle the next year. David Crews 4 ,Z if yi I :if - A lasses L Having six C O' a momigbsmrelillrs. Blackman rarely and 3 home ' Qets 3 break' Facing Stress X 7

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Puttingon a face. Drama class member - Frank Iackwell applies makeup to Carole Oakes as Kimberly Weatherspoon x observes' Photo by C' Weaver' Putting on a calm face. Football is not just a Q Q contact sport. Its also a psychological con- N f Whataface! Barbara Puckett clowns forthe test. Mr. Thomason seems to be winning, camera. Photo by B. Koontz. Photo by J. Plummer, f W... me ..- ,.,,. .. ,-..-un ' The face of exhaustion. The pain of a cross-country race shows on Chad Cook's face. Photo by C. Watkins False faces. If you don't like your own face, simply choose another. Guess who? Photo by D. Turner. t Making Faces f 9