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

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66 X GRADUATION FILING INTO THE ARENA, groduotes tool-Q their finol strides toword high school completion os foculty members poced the students to the tune of Pomp ond Circumstoncef' THE MOOD WAS SET by the underclossmen of the Blue Stors Bond, who ploced music in honor of the groduotes. The bond occomponied the choir, who song the olmo moter. s AN OBSERVER'S VIEW of the oreno in- cludes the red ond blue clad groduotes, oudience, ond stoge, Even though severol schools held ceremonies ot the Boyfront, the pride mode the Potriot ceremony unique. THE DIG SURPRISE wos the seniors' gift to the school, o replico of the Liberty Bell, which rong os the seniors exited the ore-no, rong ot the 1982 seniors' ossembly in September, M14

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HANDSHAKES AND SMILES were in obundonce ot oll inductions. A smiling NHS inductee, Steve Mostorides, receiv- ed o hondshoke from Mr. Kriever, is A. A H5 DIMMED LIGHTS AND BURNING CANDLES creoted the troditionol, speciol otmosphere ot the NHS induc- tion. Corlo Boker, junior inductee, recited the NHS membership pledge, promising her continued scholarship, leodership, service, ond chorocter. YEARS OF HARD WORK earned NHS memberships for 25 ocodemic ochievers, The students, who were screened by the foculty, sot in the or- chestro pit of the ouditorium os Mr, Kriever, principol, spoke during the ceremony. REFRESHMENTS, usuolly sheet cokes, punch, ond cookies, were o port of most inductions. As Refreshment Com- mittee Choirperson of the Lotin Honor Society Induction, Sondro Leory prepored to cut the coke she mode for the occosion. it s . INDUCTIONS AND COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES X 65

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A MESSAGE TO THE FAMILY was ex- tended by graduate Kimala Strange. Many families attended, most graduates had their own cheering sections. A MOMENT OF MEDITATION was taken in the midst of hectic graduation preparation by former graduate Mitch Keller, who stood in the Bayfront lobby clutching his ceremony program, marveling that he finally made it. Bigwigs hey were the cream of the crop, kings of the roost, at the top of the heap, in the big time. They were seniors - bigwigs, tough stuff. Seniors'rode buses to Disney World for Grad Nite, relaxed during free periods, and sported red and blue caps and gowns on a very special June day. They could open cam- bination locks with their eyes shut, could recite football cheers by heart, and could never remember being freshmen. By this time everything was a piece of cake. Surviving ex- ams and avoiding tardies were old hat. Seniors had everything down pat, claimed to have seen it all. Four years was a long time, some thought too long. Class rings were no longer new and shiny, they were scratched from the wear and tear of high school life. Library cards, issued aeons ago in ninth grade, were dog-eared from trips through the washer and research assignments, which many said were a trip. Some thought high school time flewlby, others thought it crept by. Regardless of the school of thought, seniors real- ized that high school times DO come to an end. What seemed to take forever happened too soon. GRADUATION I 67