Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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ABOVE: Pat Norman, Kathy Strickland and Carol Webb make last minute adjustments to their caps and gowns for the final moments of graduation. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP: Greg Salter sings the class song. '’Circle Game.” OPPOSITE PAGE. MID- DLE: Susan Sowell, speaking for the graduates, explains The Way We Are.”

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Getting Together Dances Parades Chows Pageants Ceremonies Entertaining

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Summer Graduates Reject Nostalgia Deviating from the nostalgic movie The Way We Were, Susan Sowell, valedictorian, spoke on the way we are, not the way we were. She explained that the modem generation looks to the future and realizes cur- rent problems with no sentimental nostalgia. Following the speech, Greg Salter sang the class song Circle Game. Next, Mr. Lloyd Mims, principal, presented the graduates to parents, friends, and faculty members attending the ceremony in the Little Theater. Mr. Bill Eanes, member of the Board of Education, pre- sented the diplomas. After the last senior received his diploma, Mr. Mims eliminated formality by dismissing the guests with a hand wave. ABOVE: Graduating seniors listen anxiously to speeches and fidget nervously while waiting to receive diplomas. FIRST ROW: Alvin Brown, Belivia Corbett. Chris Burgman, Robert Demps. Pam Dykeman, Noah Fountain, and Renee Glass. SEC- OND ROW: Velma Garland, Brenda Hill, Victoria Loving, Alonzo Nelson. Pat Norman, Mike Rambo, and Wilbur Riley. THIRD ROW: James Thompson, Carol Webb, Linda Williams, Larry Wilson, and Chip Yancey. 27