Southern Nash High School - Unitat Yearbook (Bailey, NC)

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1S WANING THal IA Ht ON PRINK HAS NolHiNG To Do WiTH 17... Go! Firebirds if That's what it's all about. Firebirds have made a name and heritage here at S.N.S.H. lhe Firebirds came first with the team sports, but now everyone here at Southern is a Fire- bird. The Firebirds have lived ina world of change this year, and loved it. So many things have come about that all of us have waited for. Classrings came early for Juniors. (Mr. Barbee -- bet- ter known as Santa Claus). The annual staff was allowed a money making project to help cover the expense of our yearbook, Pep rallies are now what they should be, The students have that Firebird spirit! We have several new teachers with us this year, The academic courses were supposed to have been made easier to help the people out a little but if the change was made, you couldn't prove it by me! Blacks got to know whites and found out we were not honkies, and whites got to know blacks and found out they weren't niggers, © Several dances were held after ballgames with full cooperation from ‘he students.

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ON THE SCENE We had a college night this year in which representatives from many colleges in our state and a few other states came to inform the students on what their college had to PEOPLE offer us. They gave our pamphlets and other info that included college or university requirements, available courses, outside curriculum and other areas of interest. It was held here at the school on a school night in class rooms throughout the building. Re- freshments were served in the cafeteria afterwards with all invited to attend. The outcome was pretty good, and the students were made aware college life was just around the corner. We had a bonfire this year during football season. This was a new addition to our social life here at Southern. The atmosphere (besides being smokey and super cold) was truly that Firebird spirit that everyone has talked about and hoped for. It was a night previous to our homecoming game and we had a Dixon player all prepared. 'He' was stuffed with cotton and dressed for the fire. We burned 'him! in effigy hoping the night of the game we would equally burn Dixon up with all the fire we could muster. AFTERWARDS ...DANCE HOMECOMING Talk about a rotten atmosphere! It is really depressing! All the football players came straggling in, tired as heck, and in this case disappointed as heck. You stand there, not knowing what to say. I mean it's really freaky! . . . Like somebody died or something. There's nothing you can say to make things better. It gets to be an obsession. To see who can cheer up the players is the name of the game. Finally after the game has been won, everyone got down to business. And dancing was the business. Jamie played for the dance 'till 12:00. It was another step forward for South- ern. Now we were succeeding to have fun together as well as work together. The night was successful. Noth- ing involved except a whole lota shaking going on! It's hard to tell the events of a game that no one really believed when it was all over with. The fans were so high strung through- out the entire game. They were well prepared for Dixon. The bon- fire we had previously had, set the atmosphere for a win. The players were reasonably confident. You could tell by looking at them. It seemed they held their heads a little higher than usual. That night they were really proud to wear that uniform. They had a confident student body behind them they felt they couldn't disappoint. I watched them from the sidelines. It's quite a different game. You not only share the feelings of the fans, but of the players as well. You see their expressions as they come off the field. They were hurt or disgusted at a bad move they'd made. They looked like men when you saw their rigid outlines, but at the same time they seemed like little children. Their faces wore a little boys expression, a dirty face with a gleaming eye, not from sweat, but emotion. They smelled not bad, not dirty, not soiled, but rotten. . . But it was a good smell. It wasn't repulsive. It made you want to hug their necks. If only they weren't hauled off to the dressing room as soon as the game was over. The fans miss all these things that you experience when you stand there with them. It's part of the game. . . then losing isn't so hard to accept. We lost but for some reason, that night COMING « HOME

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