Sanderson High School - Lakonikos Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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ever built in N.C. Meanwhile the price tag of such an auditorium has blossomed twenty percent to an esti- mated three-quarters of a million dollars. With the recent moves toward merger, an even bigger question mark is raised. Should the city and county schools be merged, the list of building priorities would be drastically juggled. The money previously appropria- ted for frills such as an auditorium would be channeled instead into efforts designed to upgrade inferior schools assumed under a merger. In fact, the only glimmer of hope Mr. Hooper offered lay with the ince there is not and probably never will be an auditorium at Saml- erson, the performing arts will never be what they could be. Craig Peebles community-most importantly, the parents of students. With the prospect of a community project being the only hope', expressed, the doubts raised in this article are only reinforced. It is now the subjective questions must be raised. What heights could the performers have reached if their talent had not been thwarted in the confines of a basketball court? If they had not had to deal with the petty frustrations that accompany high-pitched microphones and inadequate lighting? lust exactly how much were their performances detracted from by the lack of an auditorium? 35

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E LAST TIME, FEELI G and a memorable word from Mr. Murray, this class graduated. It graduated, perhaps more so than any other class before it, to a world so much in economic, social, and political flux that any preparation made here will be taxed to its limits in an effort to cope. But there's time to discover all that laterg for now, just look at the pictures and savor a moment that must already seem distant in its innocence. I . 'ii'