Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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When Students Erupt in Action those who had to go from automotive classes to English. All of this action stayed some- what low key, quiet and orderly. But when the bells rang to call students to Friday pep rallies, order, decorum, silence disappeared in the action of swaying, stomping, bodies, waving hands and arms, and vibrating vocal cords. Sports teams contributed their own brand of vigorous action to the total picture. Wildcats passed, blocked, and ran to make noise on a number of gridirons and to let everyone in the state know that they made up one of the best football outfits in 1-AAAA competition. Basketball players ran, dribbled, and swished goals. Baseball players cracked bats. Each sport contributed its own brand of action. Young people switched to dif- ferent types of action when they at- tended dances and took part in Home- coming ceremonies and the Beauty Pageant. Action for the year ended when seniors took their formal march to the sound of Pomp and Circumstances'' and a half hour later roared in triumph when Principal Lloyd Mims said, You have now graduated. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP, LEFT: Joe Wetherington reviews a list of football players' names as Lynn Becton, Mike Mink, and Rena Dasher look on and Ted Welch rests. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP, RIGHT: Trey Powell listens to physics lecture. OPPOSITE PAGE, BOTTOM, LEFT: Mrs. Harry Wolinski explains cropping techniques to Kathy Mace. OPPOSITE PAGE, BOTTOM, RIGHT: Jerry Williams presents flags during pep rally. ABOVE: Shannon Frassrand and Lysbeth Simmons work on the senior float for the Homecoming parade. LEFT: Varsity football players move to midcourt as crowd cheers. 7

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True Character of School Emerges Lights glowed all day in the windowless school. They blazed at Cleveland Field for football games. And they highlighted people and events when students posed for school pictures and for their junior and senior portraits. Cameras captured and gave lasting form to all of school life. But the true character, making this school and this year unique, emerged when students erupted into action. In classes they went front and center to give reports. They per- formed experiments in science. They manipulated the mysterious insides of picture computers. In home economics some of them kept sewing machines and blenders whirring. Business education classes gave a steady clatter to the Back-Diamond, as did the vocational and industrial areas. Beyond the walls of the school, cadets emerged from their own build- ing to drill. Even the flowing of students from one area to another between classes contributed to the feeling of action. In five minutes twenty hundred young people had to move from one part of tne building to another. Some had only short trips. Many, however, had to move in a hurry; for example. 6

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Lights! Camera! Wildcats Explode As the stadium lights flashed up on Cleveland Field and cameras focused on the unsoiled jerseys for the first time in 1981, the Wildcats exploded into action that lasted long past the regular football season. And even the sports writers of The Valdosta Daily Times agreed with the Wildcat fans in their prediction of the kind of action the 'Cats had in store for their opponents. According to an article sum- marizing the pre-season predictions of six region newspaper writers, . . the writers have gone back to the 1979 pre-season choice of Valdosta as their pick for the 1981 region champion. Piqued by the prediction of The Times, fans, critics, and scouts continued to follow the seemingly unstoppable action of the 'Cats as the team captured victory after victory. Cameras clicked continuously during