Spaulding High School - Our Echo Yearbook (Barre, VT)

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Spauldi During the second week of February, after a heavy snow, Winter Carnival was held at Spaulding. With the winter Olym- pics as a theme the VICA club took the snow sculpture competition with their Olympic torch, with original colors by Craig Croteau and Ray Rouleau. ng Marks Winter The Varsity S breakfast was the main attraction on Saturday. Smiling Varsity S members served breakfasts of toast and pancakes. Their was a general atmos- phere of fun and frivolity unique to the Winter Carnival. Sunday brought broom ball, where a Carnival blazing sun that brought the tempera- ture as high as forty degrees made going slippery and competition interesting to watch. Sunday night brought the end of the 1984 Winter Carnival, Spauldings rite of winter.

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A Summer at Bob's Sunoco I was an irresponsible 17-year old who had never worked a day in my life. Feel- ing somewhat dejected, I looked for a job. I used my irrepressible wit and per- suasion to land a job at Bob's Sunoco. The job was explained as cleaning up and painting. I couldn't understand why on the first day the mechanics stared at me with pity in their eyes, but I soon learned the cause of their sympathy. Practically everything at this haven for oil collectors and people who get-off on gas had to be painted Colonial Ivory a.k.a. sort of yellow. I also weed-whacked a hillside of genet- ically superior grass that was almost like a miniature glass shard collection. You know what that means when that weed whacker shoots grass on your legs. All in all the job was okay; it was better than sticking a fork in your eye. Clockwise from Upper Left The 2:15 bell has rung and students are heading for work or home. Burger King, a favorite eating and working places for Spaulding students. Chris Lamphere in search of fun. Harry's, a frequent stop for SHS students. Kathy Murdoch and Tim Garibaldi working the night shift at Grand Union. Outside of SHS 19

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Hot Coffee and Absent Hoagie-Burgers The darkened cafeteria looked less students who had eaten lunch here. bacon, eggs, and pancakes. As an emp- than inviting that gloomy Saturday Over the smell of my heaven-sent cup ty coffee cup hit the bottom of the gar- morning. Clearing the eye hockey of coffee I noticed that the usual aroma bage can, I heard the sound of cars pull- from my eyes I could almost make out of greasy hogie-burgers was absent, re- ing into the parking lot, signalling the the echoes of the hundreds of screaming placed by the nose tingling scents of start of the Varsity S breakfast. Clockwise from Upper Left VICA's snow sculpture captured the spirit of the winter Olympics as well as first place in the Varsity S sponsored contest. Broom ball fans scream for blood, and they got it — from Loura Casey's nose John Gil wee and Chris Pecor serve customers with a smile at the Varsity S breakfast. Broom ball action on a sultry Sunday afternoon. Wintpr Cnmivol 21