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

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l Mary Ellen Stamper Amy Starnes Charles Stinson Meria Stinson Michael Stinson Steven Stowe Jeremy Surratt Darrell Swicegood Darin Thomas Julie Thomas Latrina Torrence Julie Trexler IVIAN, WHAT ruising down the street behind the y wheel of your new car you think boy, what a feeling! You reflect back when it all seemed like a dream. Hating to get out of bed and make that last day of Drivers Ed, you got through it and then it was time to go get the treasured driver's license. Pulling into the parking lot ofthe Highway Patrol Station, your heart was beating wildly as you anticipated the ROAD TEST. Your hands were so sweaty you knew you'd hardly be able to hold the steering wheel. When asked questions about the car by the typical seven foot, two hundre plus driving instructor, your voice began to crack. You were so nervous that you felt like going home to hide but all your friends would know you didn't pass the test. Gaining new found courage from the glance over at the smiling parent who 4gg....... ... g.. ' ' ff Sonia Trexler Kelvin Turner Robert Valentine Talatha Vaughters Jeff Veach 48 X Sophomores: Stamper -- Veach

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Where's Your Ring? e awakened in a cold sweat, shaking all over. Thank goodness it was only a dream. Realistic lmages of the loss of his class ring dis- turbed this sophomores sleep. Alter awakening, all that could be recalled was a vision of atwo-hundred dollar ring caught helplessly in a whirl- pool leading to total darkness. The only hope for the situation was the appearance of the tidy-bowl man or at least a plumber. It took what seemed to be a hundred years to grow old enough to get a class ring. It may have taken another ten years to talk mom and dad into if Rf' paying for it. They heard such phrases as, Everybody else is getting one, and lt I don't get one, l will be cast from societyg l will be a nobody. A beam of light from the top of his nightstand caught his eyeg it was his class ring. Greatly relieved, he rolled over, pulled the covers over his head and slept soundly. Jason Plummer. Sophomores get excited when the ring .man comes. Chuck Shehan picks up his ring from the Josten's representative and pays the balance due. Photo by M. Overcash. Brandon Shoaf Eric Sides Michael Sides Brian D. Smith X Brian T. Smith Chris Smith Jimmy Smith Melissa Smith Brent Snider Patricia Spears Sophomores: Shoal - Spears X 47

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A FEELING brought you, it was into the car and around the block. it really wasn't as bad as you ex- pected. E Safely back at the patrol station, you posed for your mug shot and walked out of there with your plastic proof of independ- ence. ln the parking lot, you leaped high into the air and released one of the most ioyous WAH-HOOS of your life. J Returning to the present, you catch your- self just before running a red light. When, you say as you recall that earlier day of dread and celebration. Man, what a feeling! Jamie Sloan. Fortunate sophomore! On his sixteenth birth- day, Matt Overcash got the keys to a brand new 280 ZX. Photo by A. Starnes. ' ' 1' - 'dr -M-can A t. ' A s if Not Pictured Charlie Broughton Regine Cline David Crisco Jeffery Evans Steven Evans Jessica Gaither Latisha Graham Erica Harris Morris Jones John Long Melissa Vinson Alison Waddell James Walton Michael Ward Tomeaka Ware Tim Wells Robert White Stanley White Joseph Wilder Avery Wilkerson Laticia Williams Bryant Wilson Teretha Lynn Harry McNeeIy Dion Miller Mark Robertson Michael Smith Tonya Smith Robert Tabor William Thompson Terry Tucker Timothy Walker Sophomores: Vinson - Witherspoon X 49