Patrick County High School - Archive Yearbook (Stuart, VA)

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Students F ind T ime f or Both Work and Pleasure We come to sc hool day after day primarily to receive an education, but the pleasur¬ able things we experience in the process are what make school years most memor¬ able. It ' s not the long hours spent researching and study¬ ing for a term paper, the times you abided by the rules, or the number of games that were lost in one season that you remember in later years, but the A you received for all that work, the things you got away with, and the greatest victories. So, that a combina¬ tion of business and pleasure it seems can pay off in the long run. A •.

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Seniors, Chris Cor¬ bett and Mark Tol- son entertain stu¬ dents at lunch by playing popular music over the P.A. system in the cafe¬ teria. Working in the shop occupies Ag¬ riculture class time for Ronnie Haynes and John Lawless. The enthusiasm displayed by class- member Martha Loggins during a pep rally competi¬ tion helps win spir¬ it stick for Seniors. Subfreshman, Lin¬ da Clark, appears to be enjoying time in class during the early part of the day.

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Fuel Shortage Resulting Schedule Changes Biggest Student Problem Students returning from Christ¬ mas vacation found that the dol¬ lars they had recently paid for parking permits could have been put to better use in the palm of the local service station attendant. Area gas prices had zoomed over the holidays and more and more stations displayed signs reading “No Gas Sales” and “$2.00 Limit”. High cost and scarcity of fuel brought some significant changes in many routines. The usual nine to three school day was changed to ten to four after the nation¬ wide switch to Daylight Savings Time so that bus riders would be spared the perils of waiting in the dark. This , in turn, produced conflicting schedules for many students with jobs after or during regular school hours. Thermostats were lowered and the School Board asked that no one drive to school unless abso¬ lutely necessary as immediate efforts to conserve fuel. Those who stopped driving either be¬ cause of the request, difficulty in getting gas, or for financial rea¬ sons often founa themselves trav¬ eling back and forth under the unusually crowded conditions of the bus system as a result. Once the initial changes were made and the shortage situation was accepted, conformity came more easily. Personal sacrifices seemed hard for some, but did not prove to create a large num¬ ber of problems that could not be solved in one way or another. Many regular customers drive into local service stations only to be turned away. Proprietors have resorted to placing limits on customers and selling gasoline only a few days a week because of a sub¬ stantial cut bv distributors.