Stuarts Draft High School - Legacy Yearbook (Stuarts Draft, VA)

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Below: Debbie Curtis stands in the corner of the meeting room trying to work off her nervous- ness. Left: Winners of first place at the District Foren- sics meet are: Jimmy Nickols and Kirk Swortzel from Riverheads, Eric Oiesen, Roxanne O’Brien, Debbie Curtis, Erin Sills, Sandra Diggs, Jay Bur- ton, and Jorena Maxwell, all from Draft. Sitting in back are Chris Rufe and Eric Miller participants. Left: Winners at the County Forensics meet in- clude: Eric Oiesen, Jay Burton, Debbie Curtis, Robin Rhinhart, Beth Barton, Lauren Jones, Kirk Swortzel, and Robin Miller. Above: Jimmy Nickols from Riverheads, Eric Oie- sen, Mark Ratzliff from Buffalo Gap, and Sandra Diggs don’t look a bit nervous before their meet. Forensics 23

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22 +Forensics Awesome orators The Forensics Team got off with a loud bang when they won their first home meet against Wilson Memorial High School. The Hornets came with high hopes of victory only to be slashed by the Cougar expertise. After that there were no practice meets due to the bad weather of January. On the day of the county meet at Buffalo Gap High School, school was canceled because of the bad weather. Buffalo Gap called and it was decided that the meet would still be on. Everybody hastily prepared and Stuarts Draft came in second to Wilson Memorial and Riverheads who tied for first place. At the district meet at home in March the Cougars took first place over River- heads and other district schools. To our chagrin, though, Wilson Memorial was not able to compete because of confusion with the time. All in all the Forensics Team had a really great year as a whole despite the weather and the inevitable mix ups that occurred. We had a group to go to Regionals and three students who went to State. Deb- bie Curtis did us proud by winning first at state in spelling. The whole team, however, must be congradulated on a terrific year. We regret to say that next year’s team will most likely be lacking some of the humor and originality of this past year’s team as all of the seniors will be gone. The sight of Jay Burton drinking his lemon juice before a meet and Eric Oiesen’s great spirit will certainly be missed. Congradulations to the up- coming team members and out-going seniors for a great year! by Sandy Wright and Robin Watts Above Right: The most common sight at a foren- sics meet is Jay Burton with his cup of lemon juice. Below: The 1984-85 Forensics Team: Debbie Cur- tis, Nell Cross, Chris Rufe, Teresa Newsome, Sandy Wright, Sandra Diggs, Erin Sills, Andy Pad- gett, Tim Shaw, Jorena Maxwell, Eric McFarlin, David Murray, Scott Miller, Eric Oiesen, and Jay Burton.

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Below: Senior Alan Mattejat does not seem to mind getting his hands dirty as he works on this car in the tech school auto shop. Right: Senior Walter Merchant just does not understand what he is sup- posed to be doing in his electronics class. Below Right: Senior Steve Harris is re- pairing an electrical outlet for one of the “Big Boys” in the tech school ad- ministration office. Free to be technical This year the Valley Voca- tional Technical School in Fi- shersville, Virginia gave many students that were not plan- ning to go to college a chance to begin there careers. In order to attend the tech school a student must be in the llth grade except for the cos- motology program which was a three year course. Also avail- able were a few one year courses such as auto servicing, health assistant, and office as- sistant-SIP, but these pro- grams were only offered to seniors, Some of these two year pro- grams included electricity, 24 Tech school electronics, machine shop, metal trades, auto body repair, and masonry just to name a few. Two of the most competi- tive programs where data pro- cessing and auto mechanics. In order to get into these pro- grams a student had to have as much math and English as pos- sible. Over all the tech school gave many students a chance to have a trade or begin a ca- reer. It was an excellent educa- tion at an affordable price and many students took advantage of this and attended to tech school. by Missy Terrell ee ee TE OEE EO TREE ERE Se TEE CEE UR EE OE ECe