Topsail High School - Pirate Yearbook (Hampstead, NC)

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To Just before thot big test, the room is silent in the frontic hurry of lost-minute cromming. Sud- denly o tremendous screom from the bocls corner tells us thot onother victim is going to pieces. The teocher loolss up from her vvorls with o puzz- lied expression on her foce os she wonders, Was lthe couse of thot? Loughing under her breoth, she molses o smoll morl-2 on her notepod ond thinlss, Thats two in one doy, Bravo! This is just one exom- ple of vvhot con hoppen if you let on ossignment Cor teocherb get to you. Pressure builds, ond ot times it con become too much. The cure? Outrageous behoviorl Some try to escope their problems of stress by chonging their identities ond personolities, dressing ond octing in o mon- ner thot none of their close friends Cor even their mother? would recognize. Other stress sufferers burst out in loughter, sometimes onnoying those oround them. You tell yourself, There is no sense in someone being that happy! But, just becouse they lough doesn't ol- vvoys meon they ore hoppy, right? lt'sjust o woy to let off steom. The best vvoy to stoy sone is to tolse o breols every novv ond then. Just stoy home from school on the doy you've got thot big test, ond if o teocher hossles you, tell them to tolse o breols, too. They deserve it! Secretory Jonice Sonders oppeors to be running owoy from her stressful job. Actuolly, she vvos getting o little help in jump-storting her new dune buggy. Anno Eubonl-a tries to ottroct ortention by stonding on o desk wearing o blocls dress trimmed in ostrich feorhers. 'fWN,i I A s ,, , X gv V gr' as With new prescription glasses on, Mrs, Campbell Steve HGH lets OUT O SCYGOFTW FO help Tl' ister, makes Q specrode of herself in One Of het JP High regoin his control while loolsing over o ENQW doses test he obviously isn'r prepored for. 20 Student Life Wil TE , J -f l '

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During halfrirne, rhis rhreesarne raises a breals ro pose for rhe camera Michelle Ferrell, Sabrina Sand- ers, and Sandy Shingleron were seen ar several games rhis season Nirh camera in hand, Melanie Slarer ,vairs for rhe perfecr shor on rhe field Susan Grey, Sieve Hall, and Paul I-lurf aolx on vvirh anrioporion sl' ' A! GOOD Af GOLD Have you ever rhoughr abour vvhar a ballgame would be lilse if rhe bleachers were empry, no one was yelling, or rhere were no unhappy par- enrs arguing a call wirh a ref? lr would be prerry dulll The proud fans rhar supporr rheir TGOVTI rhrough rhicls and rhin are usually the blurred fig- ures in rhe background of pic- rures ar games. On rhese rvvo pages you will norice rhar rhe cenrer of arrenrion is you, rarhe er rhan some roll guy in a righr uniforrn or rhe bubbly blond in rhe shorr slsirr. Fans give rhe players incenrive ro fighr for whar rhey vvanr - VICTORY. This is dedicared ro rhe ones who conrinue ro come and cheer on our school. Srudenr Life 19

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Wifi MM J f UM f fv gp.. FFR' Ezra Cooper, Michelle Padgerr, and Crn- WCW SOUVVWGVWOVWU OWU JGVWWWGV Mor- dy Slsipperore captured during rhe Hal- GOUY Seem VO be VWOVWWQ 00 idemiiy Ioween Dance in their OUVVQQQQUS COS, crises due ro rhe unnecessary stress rumes placed on rhem by teachers, How do you consider your- self strange? '5 I ws C I live the life the life I love. because Ilove the life I live. Ride a Harley! - Richard Thomas senior l'm original in a strange way, a trend setter. - Wayne Ross senior I try to find something fun- ny in everything that I do, no matter what it is. - Jaya Ellis senior Srudenr Life 21