Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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School Activities Last All Year Summer Time :ause her summer 1 One mother, irate because daughter received a reading list for advanced place- ment English, protested. “I thought that when school was out. that was it. 1 didn't think teachers could require work dur- ing the summer.” But actually school went on all year, not just from the last week of August until June 2. Even before the 1977-1978 term started, students had been busy getting ready. Band students went to summer camp. Cheer- leaders learned how to perform routines at a clinic at Valdosta State College. And football play- ers. more than a hundred alto- gether. spent two weeks at sum- mer camp held at the 4-H Camp on the south side of Long Pond. Advanced placement students spent hours reading books they n t fimp fnr ditrinu regular school hours. Select students attended the Governor’s Honors Program held on the campus of Wesleyan Col- lege in Macon. Others attended summer school to take makeup work or to get a boost toward graduation credits. LEFT: Marty Martin tries to reconcile two facets of his personality, his love of that instrument and his love of sleep, espe- cially in the summer. 23

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22 I'OP. Ill I Wildcats John Bond and ( had Wilson work on handoffs as the vie for starting positions TOP. KKiUI: Cass Burch and Bobbs Horne practice tack- ling at football camp ABOVE: Clare Strickland. Shcree Clayton. Cindy Brown, and leri Wallers go through their rifle drills tin the da before the band left for sum- mer camp at South Georgia College in Douglas. Geor- gia III I Mr. Mike Chapman, band director, instructs the Marchin Cats at summer camp.

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Principal: 'Smoothest Day in Career' Things don't just happen. They have to be planned. For this reason. Student Council members, staff and faculty began preparations to make this year's opening day of school what Principal Lloyd Mims terms, the smoothest day in my career as a principal. Two weeks before school opened, people began getting ready. New students got their first glimpse of the interior of VHS when they rented lockers from Mrs. F.dwina Burgsteiner and had their I.D. cards made. To lessen confusion. Mrs. Catherine Yale registered and scheduled new students and changed schedules of returning students. In spite of preparations, however, when the first day arrived, too soon for some students. Valdosta High School was a mob scene, but an orderly one. Students came in cars, trucks, jeeps, and buses: on motorcycles and bicycles. Some students walked. Returning students, teachers, and staff helped direct freshmen and new students to the correct areas. Also, the cafeteria staff served lunch on time. Because the day was well planned. August 29. 1977. made history as a smooth day.