Northeastern High School - Aerie Yearbook (Elizabeth City, NC)

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(Above) Kim Hendricks. Shirley Frost, and Toia Baker express their true feelings ot being juniors. (Lett) Sleeping peacefully, this student expresses how he feels about school. Varsity Cheerleaders out shine all in the ' Keep oft the Grass is enforced by these WGAI Competition with their sharp routines. students from an Ecology class. This group of girls became part of the life at NHS this year when the Varsity Cheerleaders taught them cheers to do at a home basketball game. Spirit takes off as the Junior Varsity Cheerleaders gets the crowd hyper at the pep rally held at Waterfront Park. ‘Unidentified Student” is creamed in VIC A initiation. (Above right) While goofing around, students enjoy biology class. (Right) Robin Davidson shows that cheering can drive you crazy. 20—Student Life WE’RE OFF! Summer is gone, school is here. A new year with a to- tal new attitude and feeling among teachers and stu- dent body because we’re off to a great year. No one could explain the quick disappearance of summer but they did realize that another year had come and there was work to be done. By the end of the first week students were already counting the days to the next holiday so we could get out of school. Students were off doing everything; gossiping with friends, hanging out at favor- ite hotspots, drowning in homework, partying, cheer- ing at games, daydreaming, going to the beach, shop- ping at the mall, munching out; the list is endless. Though students had differ- ent opinions, ideas, and tastes we all have some- thing in common. We ail go to Northeastern to reach the final goal in our high school education . . . graduation; Also, just to have a good time, enjoying life to the ful- lest, reaching for the goals that make dreams come true and make our school like no other place.

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Zack Bray Music—Academics Lem Harris Academics—Creativity Parker Long Vocational Jamie Turner Spirit—Citizenship Beth Gloria Leadership Valerie Guffy Journalism Letitia Griffin Academics Darius Hedgebeth Citizenship—Academics Shawn Hendricks Academics Yvette Lamb Citizenship Steve Midgett Drama—Leadership Aretha Mullen Citizenship Donnie Nixon Vocational Roger Turner Vocational I Amy Wall Academics—Citizenship Mark Wilson Art—Citizenship Outstanding Seniors—19

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 “Steve!” yelled Brian as he suddenly realized he was in serious trouble. This was the last word Brian Hollomon spoke before his terrible fall from Stone Mountain Falls in Stone Mountain Park, North Carolina on August 5, 1981 until October 7, 1981 when after several long weeks of trying he said, “I love you momma.” Brian, with his parents and his brother Steve, visited his aunt and uncle near Stone Mountain Park in August 1981. On the fifth of August, the family set out on a picnic and hiking trip through the park in the beautiful Appalacian Mountains. As they hiked through the woods, Brian and Steve walked ahead of the family. Eager to explore and see the sights from different angles, Brian and Steve raced up the side of a mountain to get to the top of the waterfall. When they were halfway up the waterfall, Brian and Steve curiously walked toward the edge of the rocks near the stream to get a better view of the surrounding area, as well as to take pictures of the family below. After taking in the majestic scenery, Steve turned around and headed further up the mountain thinking that Brian would follow. At this time, Brian apparently slipped on the wet, moss covered rocks and fell into a shallow pool. The family and Steve heard Brian scream his brother's name and looked around just in time to see him swept over a drop of BRIAN HOLLOMAN Finally Home about twenty-five feet still clutching his camera and trying to keep it dry. His fall rendered Brian unconscience and knocked the breath out of him. The rapid flow of the water washed his completely limp body over the edge of this pool and he fell approximately seventy feet onto the rocks and water below. As his family tried in vain to reach him, Brian was again washed over the edge of this pool and fell approximately twenty feet more into a shallow tub like pool where he laid completely submerged. His father finally reached him and pulled him from the water. As his father raised Brian onto his strong shoulders, Brian finally caught his breath and his father yelled, “He’s breathing!” Brian’s sixty two year old aunt ran a seemingly endless two miles through the woods and contacted the park rangers who immediately activated the emergency rescue teams in the area. His uncle, a medical technician in World War II, assisted by Steve, kept Brian warm and breathing until the paramedics arrived. He was then rushed to the Wilkes County Hospital where the doctors diagnosed extensive brain trauma and broken bones. After preliminary treatment, they transported Brian to Baptist Hospital in Winston Salem where the initial diagnosis was confirmed. Brian had extensive head injuries above the left temple, a broken shoulder blade, a broken humerus, a broken ulna, a broken radius and a broken wrist. Brian laid in the hospital in and out of a coma for three months. On November 2, Brian left Baptist Hospital and was admitted to the Rehabilitation Center in Greenville. He spent numerous hours on a daily basis in physical therapy, occupational therapy, recreational therapy and speech therapy. On February 25, Brian came home to Elizabeth City after two hundred and four days in hospitals. Brian still goes to physical therapy three days a week and is improving all the time. His family and friends and especially himself are glad that he is “finally home.” V M Above: Although a Junior, since he would have been a Senior had he not had his accident. Brian enjoys one of the privileges entitled to the Seniors. The senate voted and ruled to give Brian honorary membership to the Senior Pit. Upper Lett: Only three months after Brian came home from Greenville, he takes in the sights at Riverspree '82. Student Life—21