Topsail High School - Pirate Yearbook (Hampstead, NC)

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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

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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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EMB RRASSME 1' - WHY WE Q H TE IT! H I I - Have you ever experienced any combina- Tlqe Sympfomg rion of rhese symproms? if so, rhe signs indicore - red face rhar you've been rhe vicrim of rhe merciless viiiain - EMBARRASSMENT! The besr woy ro - SWGOTY posms V avoid o siruorion such as rhis is ro: - 9XC955lV9 fldQ9flf7Q - sir calmly, wirhour moving - rhe sudden need ro cover your - don'r speak foce ond Crow' Under me desk - never do anyrhing sudden or rash A201-CE h nge - and never ever Ier rhern see you swear r oug rs vvir r e faces: My mosr embarrassing momenr was when I was frying ra srarr aff of a pier wafer-slrllng. When I gor up, I narlced rhar my shorrs were srill on rhe pier, hung on a nail, O C I was slrring on rhe bleachers ar a saff- ball game and a foul ball was hir over rhe fence. I rrlecl ro move our of rhe way of rhe ball and fell off rhe rap bleacher ro rhe ground. Afrer all rhar rhe ball aldn'r even come my way! Oo One rfme when I was in a pageanr, I gor up on rhe srage in fronr of all rhose people and everyrhlng wenr blanlf- I forgar all rhar I was supposed fo do. I jusr sroocl rhere while everyone jusr laughed. I was so embarrassed! O O I was playing baslserball in fronf of a gym full afpeople. My baslrerball panrs ripped from rhe fronr seam ro rhe baclr seam wlrh narhlng buf a joclre sr Y mp undernearh The referee wouldnr ler me have rlme ro regroup . J O ca 22 Mini-Mag 1' 1- -gif-A