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

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Differences coat ' d life into each club, team, and class. There were over twenty-four hundred new attitudes circling the halls. Even to the people who thought the new school year would be old hat, there was a difference. That ' s why the theme was so perfect. When it finally dawned on Greg in the middle of October; his words fit so well that we didn ' t even have to vote on it. They were more than just an image for the divider pages. They were real. Mrs. Owens, Greg, and I all thought about it. It didn ' t take long to persuade us. And now, with a flourish of our pen and pica pole, we cordially invite you to experience the difference that convinced us ... 1 nJ Imitating a monkey during the homecoming locker bank decoration competition, junior jerry Parris climbs one of the poles after the lockers had been judged. 4 Prologue

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The With the sign for victory. Chief Tom Coleman gets stopped by a photog¬ rapher during homecoming week. Keeping her mind off of giving blood, a Red Cross nurse talks to senior Lisa Frye. Lisa was giving blood for the first time. Differences It ' s the beginning of the book. Traditionally, this is called opening copy; an introduction to the book and how the year will be covered. But Greg and I want to handle it a little differently because the school year was a little different. The school had changed. Surprisingly enough, good old Pulaski County High was different, as if something intangible had come from nowhere and clamped its hand over the school. Oh, there were visible changes; the holes in the ceiling for the new computer system, the SRC, about six new rules to follow, ten new teachers, and so on, but there was something beyond that. A feeling, an idea, an opinion, something that breathed new (cont ' d.) Santa Claus always brings good boys and girls treats, but apparently the chemistry students were bad as Santa Duncan gives them a test. Enjoying themselves at a sock-hop after a home football game, Darrell Dalton and Lisa Craig dance to the sounds of Culture Club. 3 Prologue

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Searching for the right kind of plant life outside during earth science class, Sheila Eaton asks her teacher if she has the right kind of weed. Deciding what song to play, fresh¬ men musicians junior Page, Johnny Whittaker, and Tony Carroll prepare to play a little music before 8:00 class in the English Pod. Flipping through the pages of the different senior memory books, senior Dee Brown pauses a mo¬ ment to look at the signature sec¬ tion of the book. Listening to the advice of some seniors that graduated the year before, seniors J.B Burchett, Meg Stanley, and Dee Ann Lawson pay attention to what they have to say about college life. 5 Prologue