Southern Garrett County High School - Highlander Yearbook (Oakland, MD)

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During the Student Council lun- cheon, Dr. Jerome Ryscavage, su- perintendent of schools and sopho- more Joy McCain finish their meals. Joy was one of the tenth grade re presentatives to the Student Coun- cil Lining up on the stage during the annual yearbook assembly are year- book and newspaper staff members Darren Lambert (11), Mindy Wilt (11), Susan Ward (11), Robin Rohr- baugh (11), PJ Damon (11), and Sta- cey Haines (12). They helped pre- sent the slide show and take orders for yearbooks and newspapers.

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Opening Puttin ite the line Here we are, in high school, trying to line up and plan the rest of our lives. Many things are demanded of us during these years. As we grow older, we move up thedine of senior- ity from the timid freshmen to the wise, ready-for-the-world senior. Along the way, we are asked to put our knowledge on the line. Did you ever stop to realize how often we put our reputa- tions on the line during one day? Everything we do or say can have a direct effect on us, maybe for the rest of our lives. One slight mistake now could mean the alteration or destruction of all of our future plans or goals. Southern was asked, as a whole, to prove itself to the National Study of School Evaluation, through the Middle States Evaluations. Each department of the school was looked at separately and rated on its performance. Teachers, students, and administrators were all asked to stake their reputations on their performance in the office and the class- room. Our sports teams were also asked to defend the reputation of the school each time they entered a competition. Every time a run was made, a basket scored, or a touchdown run, the reputation of our school was boosted. With sad faces, the Southern Varsi- ty Rams taste defeat for the first and last time for the season. The team lines up to shake the hands of their opponent, Fairmont Heights, after losing their only game by a score of 148. Putting it on the line.3

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Opening Lines, lines, lines! Not only did our reputations get put on the line during school, but we ourselves were actually put into lines con: stantly during the school day. Everywhere in school you encountered lines. You had to wait in lines to get on and off the buses in the mornings. If you drove, you had to park your cars in lines in the parking lot. You usually sat in lines in your classes. You lined up to get food in the cafeteria during lunch. You wrote on lined paper. As you can see, lines played an integral part in our everyday school lives. The lines of cars in the parking lot became much shorter, due to the new rule that only seniors and faculty could park in the front parking lot. All other students were required to park in the football parking lot. This upset many of the underclassmen. Even when we wrote, we were surrounded by lines. Many teachers gave assignments that had to be a certain number of lines long. The notebook paper we wrote on every day contained lines. The literature studied in the many English classes contained lines. Carpentry students had to worry about getting their lines straight, while yearbook and newspa- per students had to worry about the number of lines they had in their stories. Lines were a big part of your high school career. The lines in the cafeteria became longer, even though there were fewer students than last year. ‘More people have started to buy school lunches because it is too much trouble to pack your lunch every morning. Plus with all the extra things, like Little Debbies and the potato chips, everyone has a better selection of food to choose from,” said sophomore Etta Persinger. Before one of the basketball games, Mr. Lowell Leitzel watches the starting line-up run out onto the floor, while senior statistician Shelli Terlizzi prepares the score book for the game. Opening 5