Plaza Middle School - Odyssey Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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Wanted Volunteers for the P.T.S.A. ? C7' V'x PTSA Board fFirst rowj K Funaro R Meyers K Cottrell K Blanchard. fSecond rowj M. Newsome, V. Ashenfelter, W. Gilliam, B. A unique organization in our school is the PTSA. A these meetings, everyone - parents, teachers, and st dents - who are a part of the Plaza community may a tend. Membership permits people to vote on certain ma ters and to discuss events affecting us. This year the PTSA devoted many hours working support our new Right to Read program. Throught President , Mrs. Ashenfelter, the group unanimously a proved of our efforts to concentrate on school-wide i provement of reading and writing skills. They helped design and pay for the brochure that was sent to all st dents' homes. In addition to this year-long project, t PTSA also helped sponsor the Gong Show, and a dan Therefore, to show your interest, make sure that y volunteer for the PTSA . . . you are WANTED! Y l ki ll

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I have gone through many days racking my brain for both headlines and good y-pening lines. Knowing that the whole school would read your work, ou want to make it good, something you would have pride in say- ng, 'I wrote that.' So you try not to make it boring so they will read and see if you can insert a little humor. I have many souvenirs of . e times I had to write for the ODYSSEY tbroken pencils, ripped Kp paper, chewed up nails, and loss of hairjl So, I hope you ap- -vreciate every written word in this book. Karen O'Leary Representing the Many Writers of the ODYSSEY Our Staff This past year. our special family spent a few hundred hours together at Plaza. We were very much like the nursery rhyme about the old lady living in the shoe. At times, our adopted room t639j was overpowered by too many voices. When we got too crowded, we would open up the other ODYSSEY room and leave some of our other members in there to create f Oh. no. anything but that ' they would cry. Our staff was prepared to work an average of ten hours a week, but when our deadlines hung over us, we often were lrequtred, pressured, forcedl to stay longer. We sorted through pictures, we alphabetued every student's picture and name, we wrote sentence after sen- tence. we wrote great paragraphs that had to be censored so that we had to find other ideas to put in our book, We drew lay-outs. ripped them up, and redrew them again We all learned to cope differently. Some of us: followed Mike Douglas' example talthough hc was a proj and screamed, threw pencils, and climbed in and out of the window - when we got frustrated. Milanie Llorin . . . is the ODYSSEY now subject to Child Labor Laws because ofall ofthe work and time she put in'? ln twenty years. will she thank the Odyssey for being her Slep- ping stone toward financial success? Sheryl Lemmerman's ambition to be a world famous disco dancer was clearly evident with her debut - on the desks. no less! Lalaine Llorin .. , we'd like to write something about her. but it was censored . . . IX!- QPl'N?t . . . as usual! Mike Douglas' anxiety dream, How do you place 3,094 pictures on one page? Our classtyt skipper, Susan Kinzer, still crying, I'm innocent, l tell you! l'm innocent! Maryann McChesney's introverted ways around Miss Kelly. As long as I'm in your car, do you think you could take me home? Scott Brinson competing for Spy of the Year - l'll do anything - including torturous techniques - to find out about superlativesf' Our 7th grade members - Bonnie Alexander, Amy Belcher, Mike Harrell. Tammy McCord and Kelly O'Brien often left the ODYSSEY room with blurred vision, seeing dou- ble. They left their Engerprints on the walls as they tried to feel their way out ofthe school. And. they would say, Is this worth it? Why do we have to count all the superlative ballots? Why do we have to carry baseball bats and wear combat helmets to protect ourselves from. people like . . .Scott Brinson? But eventually they too were influenced by our maturing 9th graders. They finally became One ofthe gang with their initiation sign, Please don't feed the animals! And, while we're talking about our 7th graders. we must single out our Southern belle, Tammy McCord. You see, she came from a l'il ol' mansion in Alabama to see how all of the Northern ways have corrupted Virginia. It's been difficult getting used to her language, tShe claims it's English. but we know better.j Everytime she'd say she worked on the ODYSSEY, she'd get frustrated when people say, Finish your sentence - AH'D SEE, what? Now. as much as our staff has shown outstanding characteristics. our revered sponsors also stand out. Taking age before beauty. let us first tell you about . . . Miss Kelly. We have learned a great deal from Miss Kelly. tThere ought to be a law against joining the Odyssey if your World History teacher is ALSO your club sponsorlj We have spent many hours with her. lfthere is any doubt that teachers are not the highest-paid public ser- vant certainly she could prove the point. On occasion, she has chauffered us home in her pre-Sputnik automobile. We arrived home on rainy or wintry days wet and cold. Will she ever fix the leak in her car? Will her car continue to freeze up or show frost - from the in- side? But it is not our intention to pick on our sponsor with the funny accent. This year. she has become Plaza's photographer and has regularly been seen around school capturing Plaza moments on film. She claims that she even has some pictures that could be used for blackmail purposes. tAre you listening Lalaine'?t But. what could we do to her for revenge? Anything we could do to sabotage her car would probably make it appreciate in value. And one thing still continues to puzzle the ODYSSEY'ers . Why did Miss Kelly get her hair cut at this crucial time in her life? Now that she dries her hair with an air brush and doesn't use rollers to curl her hair. how are we supposed to know when her Prince Charm- ing comes along to sweep her off her feet tin a newer car, of courseJ'? ls she really going through her second childhood by trying to win at the BARBIE game? And now to Miss Sobel. . .we know that in her youth ta few decades agoj she was a Girl Scout. but why does she continue to carry a plastic bag while repeating the Scout motto, Be prepared '? Is the rumor true that she wants all new ODYSSEY members to have healthy bodies. strong minds. and GOOD teeth? ls that why she fed us all that candy at the meetings? We worried that Miss Sobel would not be able to participate in writing copy with the weight she must carry on her left hand. But we need not have worried about Miss Sobel's ability to write. With her sense ofhumor. we nominate her to write for Johnny Car- son's monologue. At least then we could turn her off! Aside from all the joking we do, our club has consisted of energetic, enthusiastic, and creative people. We have strived to make our yearbook unique and exciting - and we know we have succeeded. One ofthe greatest things though, is that we can boast ofstronger friendships among us all. We have truly cared about each other, worried for each other, helped each other, and had fun together. Among the pressure, panic, and harried times, we have continued to LAUGH! Yearbook 47

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