Southern Alamance High School - Southerner Yearbook (Graham, NC)

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ln unison. Kathy Holt and Randy Stuckey join together in holy matrimony at Belmont Baptist Church. JUST ONE CBIG CHAPPY CFAmILY By Kim Coggins We, the Southern community, are united under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. We combine personal leisure hours with our families, community, and church activities. We take our close relationships for granted and often do not stop and realize what life would be like without each other. What would life be like if we could not get together on a Saturday afternoon or on a late summer night to go tramping through the woods on a nature hike? Many a leisure hour would be wasted for Stuart Way, Craig Patterson, and Jimmy Wood. They would no longer get together with friends to compete in their favorite pastimes - hunting, fishing, or gigging. The Daniel Boone , figure and the pioneer spirit would be gone. They would no longer get up at daybreak to check their traps. No longer would the joyous roar of their hounds fill the air at two in the morning or three in the afternoon while chasing a coon, squirrel, or deer. Their guns and boats would sit idly by while ponds would become overpopulated with fish. Weekend trips to the coast would be cancelled after Labor Day. What would life be like if we did not have freedom of worship and could not participate in any youth activities we wanted to? The Church would no longer be a part of society. Carolyn Clapp and Nancy Curl would not be able to show their talents as servers and bargainers to raise money for their building fund at Mt. Pleasant United Methodist Church. Fasting thirty hours in an attempt to lose weight at Bethel United Methodist Church for CROP would be unheard of. Southerners, ghouls, and goblins would not run from house to house threatening Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. Gene Aldridge would no longer have to dress up as Wolfman in Pleasant Hill's Haunted House. The excitement would disappear when we realized the ghost was not Jill Cox. The merriment of seeing someone's face turn green with fear would vanish, and we would no longer be pushed down steps and through dark spooky halls. What would life be like if we walked into Burger King and all we saw were strange faces instead of Debbie Sikes, Molly Wicker, and Sherrie Braxton wearing red and yellow suits and singing Have it your way . . . ? Their bright shining faces would not enlighten our day. Byrd's would be for the birds because without Ann Hodgin, Jackie Rogers, Tim Johnson, and Eddie Ross it would be friendless. Tastee Freez would become an unsavory ice cu be without their warmth and vitality. We would feel lost without these people -those we have come to know as part of our one big happy family. Commun ity Essay 21

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- q-Is'l HtmgL l On a cold brisk dayIin Februar the girls planning to undergot e PSAT lPre iminary Sweat Aptitude TestJ ran enthusiastically down to the field. Coach Sam Fowler demonstrated several painful stretching exercises left over from last year, and they hurt just as much as before. Following twenty-fiye sprints ardund the track, the girls ran upland downtthe concrete stadiUm fifteen times, allof which made the girls' legs feel like limp noodles. After an exhausting ractice, the girls unfortunately discovered that t is was a light workoutl Four weeks later, two tubes of Ben-Gay, three stretched leg bandages, and one shin splint later, the'girls were- ready for the real thing e thetfirst track meet. We thou ht we were ready both mentally and physica y, but the latter proved to be inaccurate, for Southern Durham wiped us out. Thefollowingt ra'ctices were tortuous. Mr. Fowler instigatedlal tof his ancient torture techniques and really gut us through the rack. 5 When one of the gir egan to hurt, she would 5 ;':s , , , g jg, . . A ' OMYVomanl'Clara To'rfesttrl x :gjr L'Iti'etnoulgh strefng'th'to place in t the g 0t put. V?ct o 1? a 1': . em:- es t fl remember the famous saying of Coach Fowler, Suck it up and gm These were the times when the girls felt like telling Mr. Fowler to $Nss'vaoxowmu The season was exciting and packed full of surprises, such as the time when the girls thought they had defeated Graham onl to discover someone couldn't count. Ano't er surprising mishap concerned the mile relay team. They won the mile relay only to be disqualified five minutes after breaking the stride of a girl, who incidentally wastrunning at a snail's pace. Occasiona ly someone would trip over the starting block during a race of jump off the track, thinking she was disqualified, only to discover thence was still oing on. Despite all the 1 surprises and hardtwork it all paid off. The girls were all goodlfriends, and most of them thoroughly enjoyed being on the team. Southern finished second in the Mid-State East Championship, and evelyone is looking forward to another winning season. Fly, bird, fly. Kim Foley smiles after passing her opponents in the mile relay while shelhands 0fo the stick to BIRD lalias Susan Matthewsl. Hey, we won; After winning the mile relay, Kim Foley, Cathy Murray, and Assistant Coach Tony Nolan are overjoyed. Girls' Track 23