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

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'87 . 4 G it w i IMPATIENCE was felt by Mott Johnson, Gail Rongiorno, ond especially Diana Dillard, as they wait for Stephanie Walts to com- plete her phone call. THE MOB DISPERSED at the concession area as Diane Setter took the orders of the last few hungry students, Ed Polly, Lori Williams, and David Ditmer, GROWLING STOMACHES and crinkled dollar bills were signs of 5th period lunch hour. Students stood in long lines awaiting lunches to fill their empty stomaches. Some chose to stand in clusters and chat with friends. LINES I 41

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40 I LINES One After The ther tudentsjommed the holls ond molls stonding in long, endless lines. Describing the crowded hollwoys sounded like o Wheot Thin Crocker com- merciol, One ofter the other. Lunch lines were os slow os molosses. Woiting with growling stomoches, students indulged in idle gossip with their friends. The pushing, shoving, ond cutting in line never seem- ed to ceose while everyone wonted to hurry to be woited on. The lines or lock of lines oround the concession oreo creoted 0 pottern similor to thot of o freewoy during rush hour. Woiting to buy o beot rib- bon, gome ticket, student pic- ture pocket, school supplies, or even o yeorbook, students stood in line in front of the bookstore for on endless 15 when it got students in trouble. Restless students hod to woit in line with o reterrol in their hond to tolk to their deon. The deons' office wos o congestion of dif- ferent Iines, one to look in the 'Lost ond Found' for cm poir of tennis shoes, onother to get o Iote poss, ond yet onother to turn in o note to excuse cz re- cent obsence. To get out of closs for five or ten minutes, students glodly sot down in the holls for tornodo drills ond morched single-file out to the porking lot for mon- thly fire drills. Lines or the teochers' desks were sometimes port of o doily schedule. Some teochers moy hove orronged them different- ly but nevertheless rows of desks ore rows of desks. Eventuolly, being first in line ROLL CALL wos even done in o lit: formot during most gym closses. Th students in Cooch Bill Burrow's c were ossigned o number on wl lj stond for ortendonce. T minutes. wos the consolotion to oll these Hoving fun never poid off deloys. --32:6-'fm-Q-i Nf--k--' 1 'TT 'Q 2' SE

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42 I FAMILIES id you ever want a brother or sister to share clothes with, wait for the bus with, and share your innermost secrets with? Most students did. ln fact, students who already had high school age brothers or sisters were probably the only ones who didn't wish for that special comraderie. But there was another side to the situation. Did you ever want a brother or sister to fight over clothes with, to tell Mom you didn't study, to make you late for the bus, and to tell the whole world your innermost secrets? Nobody did. But even though few fami- lyfstudent relationships were as blissful as those seen on 'Father Knows Best, or The Brady Bunch, few were horror KEEIPIPI' IT IN THQ FNYIILI stories either. The phrases There's strength in numbers, Keepin' it in the family, and SisterIy love, did have some validity. But familyfstudent relation- ships could be a little difficult to get use to at first. lt was always a change when a younger brother or sister started ninth grade. Students thought to themselves, Will she want to hang around with me? Will he stay out of trouble? or l wish she'd stay in middle school . . .forever! On the other hand, it was convenient to be able to ask a brother or sister to pick up your homework while you were sick, loon you lunch money, or give Mom messages. A normal family relationship took on new dimension when twins came into the picture. Even though they were often dubbed double trouble, few twins were exactly alike. Some twins didn't look alike and few shared the some interests or preferences. Because of twins' added closeness, heated arguments often entered their relationships. While every relationship con- tained quarrels, most contained closeness and love, too. Students learned to relate and cooperate in a way that could not be done from a textbook. SHARING A LAST NAME put twins in the same homeroom, which put their lockers side by side. Jeff and Greg Col- ey opted for separate lockers. ONE ON ONE is no problem for twins wan- ting to play a little basketball. David and Darin Going enjoyed a game on the school's practice courts. HAVING SOMEONE TO WAIT WITH was one advantage of o brother sister relationship, John and Gillean Hegner found a quiet place to finish homework before school.