Potomac High School - Prowler Yearbook (Dumfries, VA)

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Outside Assistance! Finished At Last Work on the school grounds was not always limited to the students and faculty. Mrs. Rufner, a parent voluneer, lends a hand in beautifying the area. Construction students aid in the building of quality work. Jerry Ewing Kevin Stoler and Glenn Harris move the ticket booth that sits outside the football stadium. Exciting Job A Little Chat Eun and laughter often came with hard work in the life of a library aide. Tammy Armstrong pa¬ tiently awaits students to return library materials. While cleaning out their lockers. Matt Dunlap and Terry Connolly engage in light conversa¬ tion. Locker clean-out became a nice time for socializing. Clean Up, Fix Up 19

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Clean Up, Fix Up Ahh spring time! Love, Flowers, CLEANING? Who can deny the worst things about spring is the amount of work to be done? Planting, weeding, cleaning places long forgotten . . . Ugh! Spring cleaning however, wasn ' t restricted to the home. LOCKER CLEAN-OUT! Down came the pictures and posters, out came the two month old tests, three month old notes, notebooks without covers, and the lunch Mom fixed you in August. Where does all this refuge go? The trash can? Na! Too easy. Unfortunate¬ ly most of it finds its way onto the floor. At no time is there so much trash than on locker clean out day. About the trash, assistant custodian Bron¬ son King said Yes it is bad, but the last couples of years it ' s been better because the students and faculty helped.” Work was not limited to the build¬ ing. Members of National Honor Soci¬ ety clad in jeans, grass stained sneak¬ ers and paint covered shirts took to the field under the command of Mrs. Polk, sponsor. They replaced dead shrubs with live ones, planted mari¬ golds, and blue and white flowers around the building simple to im¬ prove the environment. Trashed Out! As long as it was removed from their lockers students cared little where the garbage landed. Dane Decatur does the finishing touches on his locker. Green Thumbs Up! Many times the work around Potomac required one to get close to the dirt. Peggy Pasek adds the delicate touch in planting shrubbery. 18 Clean Up, Fix Up

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Car What??? The name of the game is Car Tag, and Susan Zovak was the victim. Car Tag was one of the newest fads around the A Way Of Life Where Would We Be? The invention and creative uses of the wheel spelled FREE¬ DOM especially for our age group. Wheels ranked at the top of our survey of most important products including radios, paper and the ball point pen. Even more important than the wheel was what was attached to it: cars, bikes, skateboards — actu¬ ally anything that moved us from one place to another. 1 love being able to drive my¬ self to school. ' ' said Jennifer Hoopes. Juniors and Seniors en¬ joyed the privilege of driving to school. Underclassmen spent several evenings calling friends who drove begging for rides so they wouldn ' t have to ride the school bus. hate riding it,” re¬ sponded Chad Weyant. Many extra-curricular activities are also centered around wheels. Skateboarding has be¬ come so popular that a new so¬ cial clique and vocabulary have developed with names of moves. Griads and wallwalks are basic words for skateboarders. Learning new moves is also a main goal for each skater. I ' d like to schralp,” said Brant McClanahan. Bicycling has also become an important activity. Competing biker ' s lives all but revolve around a schedule of alternating long and short training days. The wheel is taken for granted because it has been around for so many centuries, but what would we do and where would we be without it? Soggy Cheese Wagon On a wet afternoon riding the bus can be a hassle. Scherri Penn and Cami Smith search for their buses as Dawn Smith climbs aboard to get out of the rain. Driving Safely - Traci Marrandette uses great driving skills while racing through the halls. She collected remote control cars for her birthdays. school. 20 Wheels