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

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Fashions Include Dress To Hairstyles Is this going to look okay with this? Which looks best? Does this match? It really doesn’t have to match as long as it is in style. What is the style? The fashions this year ranged from long-length shirts to long- length skirts. Charlotte Radaker said, “Nowadays you can wear just about anything and be in style.” There was a wide variety of shoes and boots this year. Fashion color boot s and fashion color pumps were worn often. Flats and high-top tennis shoes were also popular. Any¬ thing goes was the motto. When it came to accessories, Katie Pueket said, “Jeweliy was no problem.” Antique jewelry or totally bizarre jewelry was suitable for the ’80’s. Kim Phillips stated, “If it wasn’t in style, wear it once or twice and it would be.” The guys’ hairstyles were slightly more extreme than the ladies.’ Crew cuts and unusual designs were popular for some of the guys. Their clothing generally, however, was more conservative. Once summer ended and they quit wearing loud jams, bright shirts with geometric designs were popular; but printed t-shirts, long sweaters and blue jeans were standard attire. Some guys wore suspenders hanging down at their sides as trendy additions to their trousers. Fashions this year were a collection of the past few years with some additions. Karen Bond commented, “It wasn’t too hard to match today’s styles.” Many students were In step with style. Students paused on the wall outside the English pod to show the wide range of footwear from high-top tennis shoes to granny boots. Expressing their style with unique haircuts are Ben Tickle, wearing his football number, and Doug Dalton with a spike and stripe. In the fall, several other football players had letters or numbers shaved into their crew cuts, while many guys had cuts similar to Doug’s. Margaret Blair and Susan Gravely dis¬ cuss the hardships of school life while taking a break from fourth period En¬ glish. 28 Fads

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What’s New? “A TV in the Commons! All right! Now I can watch The Young and the Restless dur¬ ing lunch. “Sure won’t be as bad being locked up in Commons during lunch period this year.” “Hey, wait a minute. There aren’t any pictures on the screen” “Aren’t those the announce¬ ments from this morning?” This fictional conversation between two students might have been overheard as school reopened after the longest summer in school history. Students returned to learn that “what was going on” in¬ cluded the new television sets in the Commons which broad- cast announcements on closed circuit. These TV’s in the Commons were only one of many changes. Expected differences included the new freshmen and trans¬ fer students in all classes. Thir¬ teen new faculty members arrived as well. Unexpected changes included replacing attendance and nine week exams with manda¬ tory two-hour semester ex¬ aminations. Locker bands were allocated differently; freshmen were surprised to learn that all their lockers would be in the Voca¬ tional Building. Sophomores, juniors and seniors were part¬ nered in locker banks in the academic building. Some stu¬ dents who drove to school were unpleasantly surprised when they discovered, abruptly, the new speed bumps in the field- house parking lot. Even more noticeable were the changes to the school’s physical plant. During the summer months, the Com¬ puter Building was finished. Once completed, it housed six labs, four computer labs and two language labs. Mr. Young’s building classes and Mr. Ward’s electricity classes did most of the work on the building except for the car¬ pet, dry walls and ceiling, the work filled an educational need for the students them¬ selves, as well as providing much needed space. The stadium expansion proj¬ ect got started a few weeks be¬ fore school ended last spring. This expansion consisted of additional seats on the home side, paved sidewalks from the home to visitors’ side, addi¬ tional lighting, and a wheel¬ chair area behind the main ticket entrance. A new visitors’ fieldhouse was constructed at the open end of the stadium so that the visiting team did not have to walk to and from the gym¬ nasium locker room. In addition, the old gravel road running from Slaugh¬ terhouse Road to Cougar Field had been paved, and a new aerodynamic golf cart was purchased. These athletic expansions had come about to accommo¬ date the thousands of loyal Cougar fans who attended every home football game. Striking physical changes, new rules and procedures, new faces, and different adminis¬ trators welcomed students back to school in the fall. if la 1 11—J n! The expanded foothail stadium seats 2,500 additional home fans when con¬ struction was completed in August. Once a novelty, the new closed-circuit TV’s in the Commons are now just part of the scene. Rushing by them every morning, students hurry to the locker banks. Changes — 27

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While waiting for the dial tone, Malena Wilson chats with Melissa Stout about tomorrow’s plans. Discussing the day’s activities, Amy Sutphin and Dena Sexton wait outside for their ride. Dressed to impress, Shawn Caudill, Chrissy Workman, Chad Davis, Dawn Hill and Joey Davis wait to give their speeches as candidates for freshman class offices. Fads — 29