Seminole County High School - Indian Yearbook (Donalsonville, GA)

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to the U S S R by 17 billion tons 3) Lake Placid. New York is the site proposed tor the 1980 Winter Olympics Moscow is sched- uled to host the Summer Games, but Canada in leading a push to have switched to Montreal, the site of the 1976 Games, in the wake of the Afghan situation 4) The University of Alabama finished the sea- son on New Year's Day with an undefeated sea- son and the National Championship The Sugar Bowl defeat of Arkansas 24-9 was the Crimson Tides 23rd straight, the longest in college foot- ball 5) The price of precious metals soared to unbelieveable heights The price of silver has tri- pled. platinum pushes $1000 an ounce, and gold prices can change as much as seventy-five dollars an ounce Over a three month interval the price of gold changed from less than four hundred to more than $675 an ounce As of January 2. 1980. the price of yellow metal stood at $559 50 per ounce 6) The Pittsburgh Steelers met the Los Ange- les Rams in Super Bowl XIV The three-time world champions from Pittsburgh were favored by ten points to take the football equivalent to the World Series title that the Pittsburgh Pirates won in seven games under the power hitting of Willie Stargell Final score Pittsburgh Los Angeles 7) Oil jumped from $18 to $28 a barrel in the wake of a year end POEC meeting in Venezuela The price of premium gasoline at the pumps is $1 13 9 10. though in September it wasn't unu- sual to see gas as low as 96 6C a gallon 8) The 1980 Presidential Campaign started in '78 with a rash of announcements by Republi- cans declaring their candidacy Ronald Reagan leads the field, followed by John Connally and George Bush John Anderson. Howard Baker. Phillip Crane, and Robert Dole appear in the Also- Ran'' column, and there is still talk about drafting Gerald Ford as the GOP candidate Jimmy Carter has worn down Ted Kennedy's early lead in Democratic support with his han- dling of the crises in Iran and Afghanistan while Edmund Brown of California tries to steal votes from both men 9) In local news Donalsonville Hospital opened its new 66-bed facility This greatly adds to the quality of medical care in Seminole County 5

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The last bell of the day sounds and you quickly gather your books and head for the hall You walk conspicu- ously past the teacher in whose class you have a borderline B (making sure that she sees her book on top) and smile as you say good-bye to her But the minute you are home the books go under the bed to be retrieved only the next morning when you're ready to leave for school This scene may not be exactly typical of SCHS students, but it has definitely happened And it isn't unusual for two friends to meet in the hall and after Is Studying Really Dead? exchanging greetings, one will ask if the other did his homework in a certain class This is usually answered with a laughing Of course not. This often warrants a Me neither at which both set out in search of someone who has the assignment completed If studying isn't dead in Seminole County it is at least suffering from a severe case of anemia To be sure there still exists a fairly large group that faith- fully completes all their outside work Others do all work in one or two of their hardest classes and don't worry about the rest. A large number spend one class period preparing an assignment for another But by far the largest group is the one that does not pretend to do homework and doesn't really care what others think about it Even these stu- dents are seen scrambling around the day of the BIG TEST trying to get some- one else's notes to do what students do here best: CRAM1!