Parry McCluer High School - Parrimac Yearbook (Buena Vista, VA)

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Trying to hurry so she won't be late for typing, Paula Mason finishes her snack. Discussing the new drinking law, Richard Hamilton, Jeff Cash, and Randy Sandidge are happy to discover that it will not affect them. Seniors 17

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Tuesday, Aan. ESS Se sentors come of age. Today students eighteen, nineteen, or twenty years of age found out they wouldn’t lose their drinking privileges if the bill to raise the drinking age to twenty-one should go into effect in July. The seventeen-year-olds learned they would have to wait until FBLA, 16 Seniors they turned twenty-one to buy beer. Although sixty of them would not be affected by this new law, the rest of the seniors realized that they would be classified as minors for at least three more years! They weren’t thrilled about it. In fact, Randy Sandidge, one of those who didn’t make it had this to say: ‘‘Who do the, think they’re fooling? Thi: won’t stop hardly anyone under the age of eighteer from drinking.”

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or Friday, Apr. {— eine ler sentor registers for te draft. Turning eighteen was a big event for forty seniors. They found themselves faced with new and challenging respon- One such respon- the boys was sibilities. sibility for Jeffrey Clayton Mikels Art, Honors Course, football. SCA and FBLA ond FH William Wromac Painter Bahd and tennis. . Alisa Ann Pelter Band, FBLA, track andwolleyball. a . og : Kristin Kay. arlene Rhodes | FBLA, FHA, FCA and softball. hn Janiver Rice 18 Seniors . registering for the draft. All boys had thirty days prior to their eighteenth birthday to register. There were mixed emotions concerning this issue. Some of them were against it. They felt it was a violation of their rights. Others felt proud and honored to serve their country in the military. w