Valdosta High School - Sandspur Yearbook (Valdosta, GA)

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Dedication Gives Coach New Honor Coach Jim Landrum has many trophies mounted on walls at his home because he constantly hunts with bow and arrow. He declares he goes hunting every night. At school he also hunts—for wrestlers and mat girls for the wrestling program. In the mornings, when he shifts from the social studies department to the English area as an assistant supervisor of homeroom areas, he frequently stops someone to talk wrestling. In addition to his hunting trophies and the pictures and awards for his wrestling teams, this year he garnered another honor, the SAN DSPU R dedication. In November, seniors gathered in the Little Theater to vote for the teacher to whom they wished to dedicate the yearbook. Coach Landrum received more votes than any one of the other nominees. Senior Vic Hartman said after he and Michele Ingram counted the ballots, Coach Landrum is a person students can confide in. In social studies classes, he is understanding when anyone has problems. He always smiles. Until Honors Night no one except Vic and Michele, the SANDSPUR editors; Mrs. Landrum; and Mr. Bill Duke knew that Mr. Landrum had won this honor. TOP: Standing under a mounted deer, Mr. Landrum shows off one of his special arrows. LEFT: Coach Landrum and his wife, Linda, hold their son, Blake. ABOVE: Jim Landrum poses in front of the pointed wildcat outside the wrestling room. 5

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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