Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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COACHING WAS HELPFUL to Kriever and prepared him to talk to the student body on the day labeled Kriever Day. Originally scheduled for Homecoming, Kriever's speech turned the attention back to the football team and led the cheer Two Bits, Four Bits. Thmk lifitcvcv Ol il.5Jld l QQ 4 , A f TRULY OUTSTANDING, was a saying that echoed through the halls during the morning announcements the four years the class of '82 attended school. It was only natural that their farewell slogan would reflect their feelings for Kriever. RULES WERE BROKEN, when students were allowed to sit on lockers and walls the day Kriever gave his farewell speech tothe students in the main mall. The crowd of students assembled on a spontaneous move to show their affection. MIXED EMOTlONS were felt by Kriever as well as faculty and students. He left behind many students who would miss him and assured them that the feeling was shared. KRlEVER X 161

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's 160 X KRIEVER He wos token for gronted. For five yeors, three months, ond thirteen doys Mr. Hugh Kriever wc principol, ond yord mon, ond woll cleoner, ond lunchroom ottendont, ond holl monitor. Yo nome it, he did it. The list went on forever. Potriots hoped he would be principol forever. Until Fridoy, November 13, students responde to Kriever with silent respect, silent grotitude, ond silent offection. The silence wos broken with rumors of county promotions. The hopes of Potriots chonged. Th wish thot Kriever would be principol forever become o wish thot he would stoy through th yeor. Kriever didn't. He occepted the position of Director of Discipline for North Pinellos County Schools. Potrio didn't pout or rebel. lnsteod students ond foculty joined to creote the most emotionol disploy 1 Potriot Pride in Pinellos Pork history. On Thursdoy, November 12, students mode huge bonners wishing Kriever well. Th ink in the colored morker pens ron out, ond some students hod difficulty findir blonk woll spoce. And the bonners were just the beginning. j Kriever gove his lost list of morning onnouncements on Fridol November 18, Homecoming Doy. He thonked students ond focul for the bonners, exploined to students thot they were tF creotors ond perpetuotors of Potriot Pride, ond osked thot l successor, Mr. Lewis Willioms, be given o welcome os speci os his forewell. His voice wos shoky. As Kriever's microphone clicked off, steody cloppir begon in M Wing. Students ond teochers slowly wolke toword the moin moll clopping ond chonting Krieve l4rieverl The octions spreod, ond the moin moll w filled with 2500 Potriots. Kriever oppeored, climbe up on o woll portition, ond begon to speok to tl moss of Potriots. At the sound of his voice the cloppii ond chonting ceosed. He thonked the crowd on reiteroted thot it wos students who creoted Potriot Prid Students ond foculty returned to closses, mony teory eye During his lost doy teochers ond students opproochi Kriever to thonk him, congrotulote him, ond sometimes to h him. A surprise pep ossembly followed the individuol disploys of off? tion. A porent stormed into Kriever's office to stoge o comploint. D ing the fobricoted tirode, students, foculty, ond odministroti sneoked out of the school ond into the footboll stodium. There t crowd woited. The bond members held instruments, cheerleodw stood nervously, ond chorol students held o bonner thot re You're ot the top of our scole. Minutes loter Kriever come into view wolking briskly, smili broodly. The crowd broke the silence by stonding ond chonti Kriever! Kriever! lt wos not just students chonting. The crowd wos sprinkled vw cofeterio stoffers, mointenonce workers, teochers, porents, ci olumni. The cheerleoders presented Kriever with the 1981 Spirit Aword. his occeptonce speech, Kriever's humility shone through his wort He sold, You've been Pinellos Pork . . . All l've received todoy is d to you . . . God bless every one of you. l will cherish this moment' the rest of my life. His fellow Potriots olso cherished the moment. The crowd wos nm- longer silent in the expression of feelings for Kriever. A doy lon' disploy of Potriot Pride ended the silent respect, silent grotitude, ont The silence wos broker

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Curriculum, the reoson 2500 peo- ple were colled students, wos the structure for the modern educotionol process. lt wos the reoson for students to cotch up on leorning by l'Booking it Up. But leorning didn't olwoys require Booking it Up. Medio students utilized oudio visuol equipment, dromo students produced ploys in the ouditorium, ond biology students took field trips for reseorch. Reseorch wos olso necessory in plonning o six course schedule. Individuol projects were o port of mony courses ond provided o necessory outlet for creotivity ond self expression. Poige Vecchitto worked on o poin- ting of o leopord in Miss Liz l4ershow's Pointing l closs. Severol courses were designed to encouroge teom effort ond produce o product, The Blue Stors Bond wos one of these, Mr, Robert Smith guided the bond through on overture during the bonds concert seoson. Industriol oriented courses often mode it possible for students to opply their work experience directly to jobs outside the school, Wood Shop wos one of these. Jerry Johnson goined experience moking o wood woll cloth using o tri squore to cut the wood. Lob courses provided on opportunity for students to execute skills l e o r n e d through 162 fCUllRlCULUM DIWSION QQ Closses from physicol educotion to photogrophy, AP. History to onotomy ond physiology, ond drivers' educotion to drofting were offered. Decisions, decisions. Students leorned to occept responsibility through moking these decisions. Once curriculum choices were mode, there wos no turning bock. Guidonce counselors did not reschedule unless o problem in level plocement existed. Regordless of level plocement or COUFSGS Cl'lOSGI l, GVGFY Sl'Udel'TT GX' book work. Potti Conzio, Michelle Wolker, ond Michelle Lochner porticipoted in o cooking lob in their Food ond Nutrition closs to moke coromel popcorn boils for the foculty ond stoff holidoy open house. 3539 ttttf perienced homework ond exoms. Students dreoded homework like the plogue, ond exoms were the ultimote survivol test. Curriculum wos often like medicine - it sometimes tosted bod, but in the long run mode students stronger. Curriculum wos o key to the future, cr foundotion builder. It wos knowledge ond know-how ond gove students purpose ond priorities. O O