Robert E Lee High School - Leeway / Record Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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When school becomes routine Its time for a pep rally to ROCK the House Down The Friday pep rally. Just when everyone thought it was dead, it is back and the students love it! The tradition was given a new Start when the spirit began bubbling over from the students to team members and the sparks were Carried all the way to the games. The feeling was there to go Out and win one for the students. It seemed that once the pep rally thing got started everyone wanted to get in on the action. The faculty decided to Choose one game of each sport to attend en masse and cheer. Sophomores had a year Of practice to get ready to help cheer their class and the football team to victory. 22 — PEP RALLIES The SCA introduced all of the fall sport participants and then they all joined hands and sang the school song. Matt HartSook noted that, “Pep rallies are the only time the whole school gets together.’ The pep rallies paid off. Angie Wells said, “Fans are learning more cheers and showing more spirit at the pep rallies and games.” Coach Walt Sherwin decided, “I think theyre great because they get the stu- dent body behind the team in spirit.” That is the main idea behind having a pep rally, and now we know it works. Trent Sharp and Bobby Sipe attended pep rallies loaded down with drums. Having a drum section at pep rallies helped everyone get the spirited beat of some of the cheers. Bert Shiflett and Jody Smith were two of the | junior male cheerleaders who were willing to | don wigs and to wear hose as they showed the Spirit to “rock the house down” at a pep rally.

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David Mullenax’s perfect School contains paper, a straw, band aids, and tissues. A spoon with candy on it, place outside the main Structure, represented the need for off campus lunches. The first thing that students had to do to prepare their model school was brainstorm ideas. David Mullenax kept the list for his Sroup as they began planning their School. —— Yo ial Greg Cartwright studies his notes on activities for the Leadership Conference. The agenda covered two full days of activities to help students develop their leadership potential. LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE — 21

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Tom Wood and Eric Brown are riding high on the packs of classmates as they went onto the Chris Wray, Chip Lilly, Jimmy Fox and Joey Sym floor during a pep rally to help the Doyle were out of the bleachers and onto the cheerleaders during a pep rally. floor with their own antics during a pep rally . Eric Sabiston and his freshman classmates show their lack of interest in the cheers of the senior class by pulling out the daily newspaper (oO read. PEP RALLIES — 23