Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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Seniors Dedicate Yearbook to Tough Guy When seniors vote for the teacher they want to remember with the SANDSPUR dedication, they reveal many aspects of the personality of their class. Instead of sweetness and light, this year's group voted for toughness in all of its connotations. This word in its modern meanings signals superlative qualities — the best of its kind. This connotation fit Coach Marion Butch Brooks. In a more traditional way the word suggests virility and demanding power. Seniors classified Coach Brooks as a tough teacher and a tough coach for football and baseball. Tough may also connote someone or something that is hard to handle. Coaches and teams from other schools certainly found that this meaning fit Coach Brooks. In the eight years that he was on the faculty and coaching staff at this school, this versatile teacher-coach combined all of these connotations. Seniors appreciated his winning ways with sports. They noted his always jovial manner. He was, to them, a tough image. And they hated to say goodby to him when he left at the end of winter quarter to become head football coach at Washington. Georgia. ABOVE: Coach Butch ' Brooks exchanges a few choice words with an umpire TOP, RIGHT: One of Coach Brooks's assignments for several years was teaching driver's ed. Perhaps the young lady receiving instruction will remember this shot BOTTOM RIGHT: After the Wildcats end a winning season. Coach Brooks and a cheerleader share a mo- ment of triumph.

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Achievement Effective communication — rhetoric — has several components, two of which are style and substance. When the Apostle Paul gave the directive quoted on the previous page, he used both of these elements. He had something to say. And he said it with style. These same qualities marked Honors Night. Community leaders, representatives of clubs, faculty, and administrators used style and grace in their presentations of honors and tributes to students. Their messages, also, had meaning; they averred that the school and community appreciated all of the young people who gathered in the Little Theater to receive honors. 11 Citizenship