Northeast High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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BANNERS TO BOOST SCHOOL SPIRIT are just one aspect of the Spirit Club’s responsibilities. Adviser Kathi Tyson puts the last bit of tape on the Therrell banner. SHOWING THAT RAIDER TEAM SPIRIT, Ikiea Battle, DeWayne Gray, William DeShazer, Michael Towles, and Lorenzo Anderson remind us that Northeast is tops with them.

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Fe Baltouw GETTING LONGER BY THE MINUTE, the first half Lasseter lunch line snakes its way down the main hall. Mrs. Kathleen Wheeler, teacher on lunch duty, keeps order. Faculty members are assigned duty respon- sibilities in hallways, outside, or in the lunchroom areas for at least twenty minutes of their lunch period. We te MASS CONFUSION SEEMS NOR- MAL in Lasseter hallways as students scatter in every direction on their way from supervision to second period. Mrs. Gladys Barnes, a custodian, waits for the halls to clear. A school enroll- ment of nearly 1,300 sometimes made class break chaotic. MS. ELEANOR TAYLOR, ad- ministrative intern, searches the com- puter memory for the number of times senior Joe Trigger (center) has been late to school as two buddies, senior Leonard Pitts and sophomore Greg Fields, look on. The computer record of tardies and disciplinary notices made ‘sliding by’ a little tougher. 7

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MASTERING PHYSICAL SCIENCE sometimes takes some extra work one- on-one. Mrs. Gail Lewis, science in- structor, re-explains a concept to junior LaShonda Taylor in a quick mo- ment after class. Students find that most faculty members welcome ques- tions when students aren’t sure they understand. CONCENTRATING ON THE CADENCE, drummer Dexter Miller sweats out the final moments of the sneak preview show for family, facul- ty, and friends, which capped off sum- mer band camp. Band members lived in tents for a week at Camp Benjamin Hawkins. m so mad, Patti, I can hardly see straight!” “What in the world is the matter with you, Eric?” “You didn’t see the paper this morning?” “Nope, sure didn’t. Why? What was in it?” “Oh, there was just another article in there that put Northeast down... again!” “That’s just great! What now?” “One of our rowdies got harassed for loitering. As usual, the reporter went out of his way to connect him with Northeast — even though he hasn’t been in school in over a year and the incident had nothing to do with school!” “Oh, man. That just makes me sick! There really aren ’t that many teen hangouts around here.” “Yeah, Patti — we’re never gonna break that bad image no matter what we do.” “Why don‘t they write about the good things over here — the blood drives and all the community pro- jects the vocational clubs do! We can’t be all bad!” “And what about groups like DECA, the Academic Bowl team, the band, the publications that win all kinds of competitions! The Telegraph does a decent job on covering Northeast sports, I guess, as long as you are just talking about the boys’ teams. They never give our girls’ basketball or track teams the coverage they deserve. Usually, the stuff on them is at the end of the story on the boys. With as many championships as they’ve won, they deserve more than that! “Another thing — Patti. Everybody puts us down because we’re the smallest public school. That just means we know each other better.” “That’s straight! I love Northeast. I think we’ve got a great student body and a faculty that cares about us as people.” “Good times at Northeast — that’s the best kept secret in town! We can’t wait for Macon to discover the truth, because most people have already made up their minds without knowing the facts. We’ve just got- ta tackle the job of spreading the word ourselves.” kne Theme Oppniag INE? | |