Pulaski County High School - Cougar Pinnacle Yearbook (Dublin, VA)

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r- ■. Studying was done only five hours per week according to the student survey. Many students took advan¬ tage of their lunch periods to finish studying, as did Tracy Williams in the senior locker banks. In the student survey, students re¬ ported spending an average of six hours per week dating. Tim Hale and Teresa Burton keep in step to the music on their date at a sock- hop following a home football game. During a home tennis match with Salem, Steve Ewankowich and jon Fleenor sit back and enjoy the match. The survey reports that stu¬ dents spent an average of three hours per week watching sporting events. 9 Time

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Clockwise If you think all you did was housework or chores for your parents, think again. If you were an average stu¬ dent, you watched a lot of television, ate, studied, talked on the phone, went out on dates, played video games, and attended sport¬ ing events a total of thirty- three hours a week! That was more than one full day, and didn ' t include time spent sleeping, daydreaming, or being in class! Splitting all those up found watching television way up front with eleven hours. Some students could recite the plot of every sit-com within the past week. Talking on the phone was next with nine hours, closely followed by eating with eight hours. A few people mastered the art of balancing the phone on a shoulder while simultaneous¬ ly raiding the refrigerator. The average for dating was six hours, while studying was five hours. People enjoyed the opposite sex one hour longer than they enjoyed their algebra! They support¬ ed their local sports teams for three hours, and fed quarters to hungry video ma¬ chines for one hour. The places people went in their spare time were as im¬ portant as the time they spent doing the activities. Fast food was always found in the same vicinity with ar¬ cades, shopping malls, and movie theatres. In couples or singles, they went skating, skiing, fishing, to concerts, to parties, to libraries, jogging, and just plain cruising. On the far side of s pare time, they worked on cars, and then used those cars to cruise the campuses of Rad¬ ford U. and VA. Tech look¬ ing for some action. They played in bands and rode around the state park look¬ ing at the ducks. Staying at home didn ' t necessarily mean sitting around watching T.V., HBO, Showtime, Cinemax, and free munchies. Some of the more fortunate had Ataries, home computers and video disc players. A few construc¬ tive souls sewed, painted, built shelves, cooked, and read books. Clockwise, there were twenty-four hours a day, but students needed at least twice that to accomplish ev¬ erything they needed to. Still, they managed to cram a great deal of activity into just one day. 8 Time

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Student Aid Time Out For Teachers How could you find a se¬ nior in a gym class? A student answering, Pulaski County High School, may I help you? The answer was sim¬ ple. They were volunteer aides. Each and every aide gave of his or her time to help someone out. There was one exception, though, Jennifer Hughett. She was not a volunteer aide. She helped someone out, but she was also paid for her time. Many long hours were spent answering the phone and filing away papers in the main office. When asked how she felt about her job, she grinned and said, I really do like working in the office but most of all I like having work and school all in one. It seems like I ' m being paid to come to school. Not only were there office aides but library aides, nurse ' s aides, pod aides, and even gym aides. Kim Long and Woody Ayers were two of the many senior gym aides. Both expressed that they really enjoyed being gym aides. Being a gym aide during 4th period gave me a break in the middle of the day, which was really nice. It also provided a great oppor¬ tunity to get some exercise, stated Kim Long. Being an aide did have some disadvantages, too. Sometimes it meant having to clean dirty chemistry equipment in the wood shack and in one instance meant having to go to the hospital to get stitches. Les¬ lie Woolwine learned the hard way that beakers are very sharp when you break them. Aides filed papers, ran er¬ rands, watched classes, typed and picked up teach¬ ers ' mail. With all their many tasks to perform, student aides, provided Student- Aide - a time out for teachers. LAW N Gym aides dressed out with the stu¬ dents, but performed a teacher-like role Here, Kim Long and Woody Ayers put P.E together as they pick out the needed class equipment. Pulling files could be like pulling teeth with over a thousand students enrolled in school. Terri Alderman helps the Guidance Department keep track of who is where and when. 10 Student Aides 4