Rustburg High School - Owl Yearbook (Rustburg, VA)

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% ® eee z ed Yaeas? ease og lectronic games at Lynchburg’s Plaza Bowl Strutting his stuff to the sound of WJJS’ Van eep juniors Ricky Trent, Wellington Wheaton, Johnson, Kevin Cox gets off at the newspaper- nd Roger Cash busy on a Saturday night. sponsored Valentines’ Day Dance. Top of the charts School weeks could almost be charted on graph paper. You know, Mondays are really low on the curve, Tuesdays and Wednesdays rise steadily, Thursdays drop down almost to Mon- day’s level because of the veritable mountain of stuff due on Friday, and Fridays’ place on the graph reaches the top of the paper. Saturdays and Sun- days? Well, they just couldn’t be graphed. Weekends only lasted two days, but on Friday, who cared? It was easy on Friday afternoon to say, “Oh, I’ll get that paper written, clean my room, go out to the game tonight, the movies tomorrow night, church Sunday, and Grandma’s afterwards.” Sure, but getting the work done wasn’t quite that easy. By Sunday morning as you left for church, your room was nasty, the paper unwritten, and your next weekend blown because you’d missed your curfew the night before. The whole visit at Grandma’s was spent worrying about that paper, and by about ten that night you’d decided you’d just be dead the next morning with a cold and sniffed around your mother a lot. So much for that! Your mother carried on a lot about how late hours were ruining your health, and you were grounded for two weeks. How could anyone be blamed for at- tempting to do everything in a (continued) Weekends 29

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Unable to eat another bite, Kenda Millner watches Terrell May attack a rolled up Sal’s pizza after a Friday night basketball game. With an eagle eye on the pins, Tina Sharp relaxes at the Plaza Bowl with a few quick frames. At the wall after a Friday night basketball game, Eddie Roberts waves a friendly hello to a newly- arriving friend. 28 Weekends

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Top of the Charts en weekend? There was so much to do, and on Fridays, those two days seemed a lot lo nger. Football or basketball games, movies, parties, or when anyone had the money, concerts at the Roanoke Civic Center-Coliseum. When © everyone was broke, there was always “The Wall” in Rustburg. Saturdays and Sundays were spent doing a lot of things that weren’t really necessary, like sleeping late, or shop- ping all day, that time left over for the important things like working, on either schoolwork or a job, was pretty scarce. So back you went to school on Mon- day, tired out instead of rested up from the weekend. With each new Monday the graph’s starting point dropped lower, until Monday’s position couldn’t be retrieved with a post-hole digger on most student’s charts. And with each hectic weekend, the workload for the next weekend grew heavier, and the weeks trying to catch up grew rougher. Weekends weren't the restful days they could have been. T dog Bate down in a slushy February snow, George omii n gives up sledding in favor of harassing his 30 Weekends