Stafford Senior High School - Indian Legend Yearbook (Falmouth, VA)

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Friends. Jill Friedman talks with a special Olympic participant between events. Patience. Between events, a participant from Falmouth Elementary watches other events. 18 Special Olympics Team pride. During the March of the Athletes, Tammy Gillie helps a participant from Grafton Elementary.

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Extra for Overtime Blaring from the car radio came the music of Dolly Parton as she sang a familar tune, ‘‘Nine to Five’. The contents of this song deals with the hazards and problems of the working class women. Thanks to this song and the movie ‘‘Nine to Five’, the entire country became sympathetic, in a comical sense, of the problems of this group of working class people. On the other hand, one such working group that has had no song or movie made about them are the working class students. Surely, had Dolly Parton sang of the working high school student the song would have an entirely different wording to it. Rather than singing of “‘what a way to make a living’ the song could possibly state “what a way to make a car payment’’. By all means she could deal with the problem of homework and working around high school and the job schedule. As stated by Robin Hicks who works at Leggett’s, ‘“‘there doesn’t seem to be enough time to do everything I have to get done. If I’m going to work I have to be sure to budget my time so that I can get all of homework done.” Not all aspects of the working high school student were negative. Besides the obvious benefit of having the extra spending money there are other positive extras. Some Stafford students used their after school, part time jobs to prepare themselves for their future careers. One such student is Stephanie Doggett, who works at the Mary Washington Hospital. ‘I want to be a nurse and working at the hospital before I begin my nursing school is giving me a head start. Besides, before working at the hospital | wasn’t really sure that I want to be a nurse. But now that I’ve worked at the hospital I wouldn’t do anything else’’, stated Stephanie. The other group of working students are those that do volunteer work. Yet despite the modes or type of occupation, working is a large aspect of high school life. And the one aspect of Dolly Parton’s song that fits the Stafford working students is “ ... and you never get any credit. It’s enough to drive you crazy if you let it”’. The nose knows. While working at the perfume counter at Leggett, Cindy Zidek helps a customer choose an appropriate fragrance. Pit plowing. Craig Leggett plows the jumping pit to prepare for track practice. Vol. Part-Time work 17

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Those Who Care The crowds were not in excess of a million, the number was more around 75. No athlete carried a burning torch with which to light the flame that burns throughout the Olympics. Yet one thing, which by far compared to and surpassed the “‘real’’ Olympics, was the heart of the athletes involved. The group of people this year represented elementary, middle, senior high schools throughout the county. It was this group of special athletes and the students which helped that made this years special Olympics possible. This year’s special Olympics, held at Staf- ford’s Busch stadium was a great success. Competing in such events as the broad jump, softball throw, frisbee throw, 50 yard run and parachute jump, the participants were as in- volved in their events as the athletes in the “‘real’’ Olympics. One of the helpers, Debbie Courtney stated “‘the kids really put every- thing they had into their events. To them, this was bigger than the world wide Olympic games’. It was this sincere attitude from both the helpers and the participants which made this years special Olympics so successful and meaningful. As Laura Crain stated, “helping with the special Olympics was a great exper- ience for me..Not only did the children feel good about themselves but I also got a lot of satisfaction from working in this event”’. Moral support. Special Olympic helper congratulates a special Olympic runner as he finished the 50 yard dash. Pint-size pitcher. Mary Rooney watches and takes distances as a young girl throws at the softball throw. Special Olympics 19