Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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Pointing fingers help solve mysteries of school Many people enjoy reading mysteries by authors such as Agatha Christie or Ellery Queen. Everyone wants to find out “who done it. But one mystery that they do not like to solve is learning directions in a new and unfamiliar building. On the first day of school, however, freshmen faced and solved this mystery, with the help of pointing fingers. These new students found that trying to find their way around the Front Diamond, Back Diamond, and Commons Area was a hard mystery to unravel. But some discovered that faculty and Student Coun- cil members made good detec- tives for solving this puzzle. And maneuvering through the maze of hallways grew easier as freshmen learned to follow the color-coded direc- tional arrows. By the end of the first week, they had become acquainted with the complex patterns of the school. “I was really unsure about directions at first. It’s so big!” Tracy Singletary ‘7 was kind of nervous the first day or two, but then it was fun. ” Lalee Dasher 26

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 Beauty Contest Certain signs always foretell certain events in the natural world. In South Georgia, the arrival of robins and the budding of pecan trees declare that spring is near. And at a high school, signs, some quite tangible, some intangible, proclaimed coming events from the first week of classes to graduation. Tangible signs included the slamming of locker doors as new occupants tried out combinations, the posting of homeroom lists, the painting of miles of get-with-it messages for football. Intangible signs presaged the nearness of exams and graduation. Festive events called for both kinds of signs: telephone calls to make dates for dances, shopping trips — and decorations for gala occasions such as Homecoming and the Junior- Senior Dance. Signs of graduation appeared when seniors picked up their memory books to fill with pictures and other memorabilia. Graduation Homecoming N Mr. Mims's Birthday

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OPPOSITE PAGE. TOP: As Peter Walker points to his homeroom information. Winston Relaford rolls his eyes to Anthony Washington for help. OPPOSITE PAGE. BOTTOM: Winston Relaford listens carefully as Mrs. Genelda Fields and Mrs. Sandra Connell explain and point the way. TOP. LEFT Principal Lloyd Mims gives instructions to Terri Miley. while her sister Karen Miley watches the passing crowds. TOP. RIGHT: Student Council members Nathaniel Chachere and Dante Jones give advice to Tony Martin. LEFT: John Scala and Vicki Coxwell look on as Mr. Mims searches for their homerooms on computer sheets. 29 Spread By Cherie Southwell — Julie Spencer