North Stafford High School - Flashback Yearbook (Stafford, VA)

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1. Judy Scales, 4 years 2. Little Ray Jones, 2 years 3. Richie Cantrell, 3 months 4. Can I help you? OH! WHAT A FEELING This was a common expression used to describe the feelings of most seniors this year. The Class of ‘84, this year’s senior class, was very high spirited and outgoing. Early in the year, the seniors were measured for caps and gowns. If you were a boy, you would wear blue, and girls would wear white. After caps and gowns were out of the way, it was time to order gradu- ation announcements. Each senior received seven tickets for his her family and friends; many needed more. As this year’s fund raiser, the Class of ’84 sold tin cannisters. They were very popular and sold well. Another fund raiser was the ” selling of senior shirts. These shirts consisted of the name of every se- nior in alphabetical order. These shirts sold better than any other product in the senior class. To- wards the end of the year, each se- nior anxiously awaited graduation. The week before the seniors got out, they had a senior picnic and a dinner dance to follow. All of these activities are part of senior pri- vileges. When the night of Com- mencement arrived and the diplo- mas were handed out, each and ev- ery one of the students realized that all those years of homework, tests, and listening to teachers were final- ly about ready to pay off!

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Working Students As you get up into your high school years, you find yourself put- ting out more money than usual. There are many other things be- sides book rental to worry about. For instance, class dues. Whether you're a freshman or a senior, everyone has to pay dues. Then there’s the varity of goods sold to raise money for your class. If you add all the money you spend a year involving school sales of activities, it becomes quite a large sum. Not everyone’s parents can afford to put out all of that money. In order to help their parents out, some students get jobs. You'll find that a lot of the kids work at the same places. McDonald’s, the mall, and Pizza Hut seem to be places where a wide majority of the stu- dents work. Most of the students which do work are either seniors or juniors. In your senior year you have por- traits, graduation materials and dues to pay for, it can get costly. In your junior year, everyone is get- ting ready to pick out class rings and they’re not very cheap either. Money isn’t the only reason kids get the jobs. Several of them want jobs just to be able to take on the responsibility or get some experi- ence. It takes a great deal out of someone who works six to seven hours a night, thirty-six hours a week. You've got to do your work right and then concentrate on your schoolwork. Working students learn what it’s like to take on the responibility of their job as they learn from school how to further their opportunities and goals. It’s the students who are willing and eager to work that are going to succeed in this world.

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1 2 3 + 5 6 7 8 9 . Tina Rice, 9 months . Diane Jensen, 7 years . Teresa Howerton, 6 years . Lisa Paul, 4 months . I'm good ... I know it . well frankly ... . Diane Collins, 7 years . Dana Trout, 1 year . Colleen Metheny, 3 years