Perry High School - Perryscope Yearbook (Perry, GA)

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THE DAY SUMMER STOOD STILL Top: Ronald Black welcomes friends Angie Hale and Ryan Ross back to the halls of PHS. Middle Left: Jonas Alday and Angie Batchelor share a minute between classes. Above Left: David Womack gets back in the swing of things by reciting a new rap. April Thompson. Tanya Gray, and Suzanne Yates welcome an Olympic wrestler to Perry High. OPENING 5

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AUGUST 28th, 1987 Don’t blink or you might miss it! What am I talking about? A bird? A train? No, SUMMER VACA- TION! Had we really been out of school for three months? It felt more like three days personally. All summer long everyone is always on the go, like a tape cassette on fast forward. Isn't it amazing how real life seems to stop immediately once school begins, almost like someone hit the “PAUSE but- ton. Real life, real fun, it all has to be put on pause for nine months, or is it 15? 20? 30? Who knows? This, of course, excludes SPRING BREAK, but if summer is only three weeks long. Spring Break can't be more than one day. I think the world would be a much better place if someone would just keep their finger on that fast forward button all the time. Maybe I should push a few school books up against it; make sure it doesn't ever turn off! Scott Richards The day that time stood still I sat semi-quietly in fifth period Trigonometry. Trig is long enough when the hands of time move, but. with Father Time out of commission, it lasts forever. Someday I may repay Mr. Time the favor. Maybe next summer I’ll pull a Rip VanWinkle on ’im. Paul Bekaert Top Right: Dan Arledge and Billy Brewer enjoy a break from hot classrooms. The Little Drummer Boy, Kurt Woods, who according to many female admirers is FINE, returns to school to the beat of a drum. Middle Right: Brian Richardson puts up one of the year's first bulletin boards. Far Right: The beginning of the school year means FOOT- BALL. Here James Kinchen coaches on the sidelines. 4 OPENING

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This school year is special to me not only because it is my senior year, but also because it marks the 200th anni- versary of the United States Constitu- tion. There are only a few of us who are seniors in the class of 1988, but the Constitution is something of which each and every citizen of the United States can and should be proud. During September, our country held a nationwide birthday party for the Con- stitution, a document that secures the basic rights and freedoms for Ameri- can citizens that we so many times take for granted. President Ronald Reagan, other dignitaries, and ordi- nary people have speeches which were more than a way of getting us out oPclass. In these people’s voices, I could hear the emotion and pride which every American shared on this day. We, as Americans, should not only be proud of our country on special occa- sions such as this. We should be proud of the Constitution, the United States of America, and everything they stand for everyday of our lives. John Rowell “We the people ” We, the stu- dents of Perry High School, are the people. This year marks the 200th an- niversary of “We the people .an ideal which is embedded in the hearts of all Americans. Our Constitution has stood the test of time, lasting longer than any other constitution. When the founding fathers sat down that hot day in May, they had the best interests of “We the people ” in mind. The Constitution gives us free- doms, freedoms which make us Ameri- cans, and freedoms which give us hope for a brighter future. The Consti- tution gives us freedom to participate, freedom to teach, and freedom to learn. Happy 200th birthday “We the people . ” Tony Crockett 6