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

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Seniors waited for weeks to receive their senior portraits. Debbie Barnard and Sandy Baliles take a look at each other’s oil portraits while Dan Epperson shares a laugh with others at the exclusive SENIOR TABLE. Band member, Greg Hutchens appears to be somewhat shy or quite stub¬ born ... . .. apparently, it is simply a case of shyness as Greg hides behind his cymbal. Opening 3

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REMEMBER WHEN . .. Remember that first year of high school? The upstairs hall was like the hands of a clock — going round and round. There were seemingly millions of numbers to remember — numbers of rooms, lockers, P.E. locks, lockers, and bas¬ kets, plus the combinations to the locks. At the start of the year, eighth graders recognized enemies from elementary bas¬ ketball wars and before they knew it, the worst enemies were the best of friends. Ninth graders finally achieved status and identity, as they were replaced by in¬ coming “greenies” on the bot¬ tom rung of the ladder. At long last, they had someone to look down upon, forgetting that they were once there them¬ selves. Remember packing your gymsuit to take home for the final (and maybe even the first) time? No more P.E. meant no more laps to run and no more icy cold showers; what a relief! Days not filled with P.E. includ¬ ed some 55 minutes of Drivers Education (remember those gory films just before lunch?). By year’s end, most tenth grad¬ ers had finally secured their driver’s license. While Junior year was a lot of fun, it was, in many ways, also the most trying. The year R.D. Howell performs the Black (?) Box Experiment in Chemistry class. This was a was filled with anxieties of different type of experiment that involved no chemicals, just a box with an unidenti- SAT’s, class rings, prom plan- tied object inside, ning, and getting along with that ever-so-moody Senior Class. After all of these worries though, there was fun and good times galore. And then before you knew it, it was SENIOR YEAR! There are so many things that make up this last year of high school—everything from such minor things as stuffing the phone booth to the most major moment of all—graduation. This is that long-awaited dream come true—the end of thirteen years of schooling. After it is all over though, wouldn’t it be nice to relive some of these memories? Junior, Curtis Boxman works out in the weight room in order to keep in tip-top shape for football. Athletes are given the opportuni- Clayton Jones creates a sculpture from an ice cube tray ty l ° 9 ° l ° the wdght r °° m dUring thdr Study halls ' for art class. 2 Opening

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Activities Provide More Than a “Double Fantasy” REMEMBER when you were headed for town, but never got there? Well, after all, any number of things can happen between home and wherever. Plans can change or you may simply see someone that you haven’t seen for a few hours. This only makes up a part of the com¬ plexity of student life. Plays and dances, spon¬ sored by the school, provide but a fraction of student-relat¬ ed activities. Weekends and week nights are filled with all types of diversity; from con¬ certs in Roanoke or Greens¬ boro, to races at the Martins¬ ville or 311 Speedways. Worldwide, tragedies, as well as successes, parallel our lives, affecting how we think and feel. The death of former Beatle, John Lennon, sent mil¬ lions to the record stores for “Double Fantasy,” and the Royal Wedding left scores of people drowning in dreams of flourishing wealth. In today’s automated, push¬ button society, television en¬ gulfs endless hours of time, protecting us from the outside forces of evil by keeping us at home — glued to the tube, and absorbing a large chunk of what is known as “student life”. Melissa Kreh, Martha Hall, and Gary Burnette, Rubik’s Cube enthusiasts, display innate confidence in their abili¬ ties to conquer the puzzle. 4 Student Life Divider artwork by duane hylton