St Stanislaus College - Reflections Yearbook (Bay St Louis, MS)

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m ABOVE: Coach Vernon Powell watches as Senior Todd Thrif- filey sweeps around the end to race for a touchdown in the game against Riverdaie. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Getting psyched up for the game is all part of the preparation. Lon Baxter and John Ladner take to the air to express their readiness. Although working with younger children can be very trying, Project Do volunteer Bobby Parker took to it like a fish to water. There’s no better way to spend a Friday night than chasing down an archrival, especially when you’re Senior Mike Yarborough and you’re playing against your hometown, Pass Christian. Layups appear so easy, just drive in, put the ball up, two points, right? Well, Senior Jim Martin will be the first to tell you, it’s not that easy! UNIQUENESS TO THE ULTIMATE It began like any other school year. The students arrived, began exchanging summer ex¬ periences. The faculty was prepared, the tex¬ tbooks lay waiting. Overall, just another school year. But underneath it all, everyone knew. This year was to be different, a very unique year indeed. It began with a storm . . . Hurricane Elena. She blew in from the Gulf during the third week of school, releasing everyone for an unexpected holiday, a week long holiday. Upon returning to school, it was like starting all over, like the first two weeks of school were lost, placed in limbo.

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ABOVE: The afternoon intramural games are taken very seriously. Here Brad Rutledge draws back to fire a pass. CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Project Do offers students the oppor¬ tunity to become involved in community service projects. Sean Donnelly didn’t realize the young lady he was working with, Miss Leslie Morel, is the niece of Brother Patrick McGinty. And speaking of brotherly love, Keith Robinson and John Keller ham it up for the camera. Retreat should be a time for reflec¬ tion and meditation, so Chris Riley takes the time to put a few thoughts on paper. Chris, along with the other members of his class were on retreat at Rosaryville, Louisiana. Not knowing which way to turn, David Pitalo competes in the afternoon in¬ tramural program. Although participation was strictly volun¬ tary, over 50 % of the school was involved in the intramurals program. After that, everything seemed to settle down. No major catastrophes, no bad experiences. But the underlying feeling was one of waiting. Waiting for something to happen. And it did . . . the week of Homecoming. Another storm, this one named Juan. While Elena had spared the school pier, Juan did not. Perhaps it was weakened by the first only to be completely wiped out by Juan. And that ' s not all Juan wiped out. For the first time in recent history, the annual Homecoming Parade was cancelled due to the storm. And of course, more days of school were also gone. So the school had survived two major hur¬ ricanes. Now that all the storms were over, life could resume its normal pace. Aha! Not so quick!!