Satsuma High School - Cayman Yearbook (Satsuma, AL)

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It’s been twenty-one years since the first fifty-seven graduates walked through the halls of Sat- suma. A lot has changed since then, student ideas, opinions, along with the whole aspect on education. Stu- dents are more liberal; they depend on their high school education to prepare them for college and later careers. Today, S.H.S. provides a diversi- ty of academic subjects, as well as athletic competition, because we live in a society that teaches us from grade school on that it's important to be well-rounded individuals. In sports too, we like our athletic he- roes to do something more than to hit or throw a ball farther or more accurately. We prefer that our sporting figures have other talents and dimensions, interesting lives and personalities off the field or the court. Most students look back to their high school years not only to re- member the good times that they experienced, but to use those years as a foundation to base later careers on. 4 Opening

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Friday Afternoon Excitement It was the dawning of a new day, and with the arrival of one-thousand four-hundred and seventy-four stu- dents it seemed school-business as usual. This day. however, was dif- ferent: the football players wore their jersies, bearing the numbers of victory for the upcoming event; the cheerleaders were clad in skirts of maroon and white that hailed and disclosed the non-physical parts of S.H.S. But. there was something more than seeing these things; you had to feel them and to have exper- ienced them before to get the full meaning. The pep rally set the pace. All day students had attended classes uninterested in their work but en- thusiastic of the upcoming clash. The pep rally revived the observers and rekindled the spirit of victory. With the arrival of the game, a mixture of every emotion was pulled together for forty-eight minutes as the standing-room only crowd was enthralled as the Gators of Satsuma marched over their opponents on their way to another victory. As day turned night and the win was at hand, a victory dance honor- ing the team concluded each Friday afternoon as a gala event. 6 Opening