Valley Central High School - Viking Log Yearbook (Montgomery, NY)

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Hustle and brews tea bustle enior year is crowded with once-in-a-lifetime events: they are all meaningful, all special. But sometimes, the most meaningful part of these events, is the prepara- tiong preparation which allows one to give to the event even more than he takes. The Senior-Faculty Tea is a long- standing tradition at VC: a once-in- a-lifetime event. Although the Tea itself is rarely over an hour and a half long, the preparations begin weeks before. And long after they forget the names of all the teachers there, the seniors involved in the preparations will remember Knot how much work they didl, but the satisfaction they felt in having done any at all. The students hussled to the Council meeting to discuss plans for the Senior-Faculty Tea: the per- suasive Mr. Iohn Calvey presided over the meetingg raised hands vol- unteered seniors' time and services to help the officers prepare for the Tea. Here it all began. A small group of girls wrote in- vitations to the special guests while the food-lists fcakes, cookies, tea sandwichesj were dittoed off. These lists were sent to every twelth grade homeroom 'lso that seniors could Continued on p 114 Ianet Beaty Iohn Beecham David Barletta Diann Baty Eric Bartle Gigi Baty Iulia Basile Kevin Baxter Patrick Battipaglia Patricia Beattie fBelowj The building up of homework can be a very harrowing experience. Bonny Morgowicz smiles wryly as she thinks of her busy night ahead. Brian Behr Iamine Bellarosa Kevin Bellarosa Sherry Bellarosa Cheryl Benton Iohn Bernard SENIORS 113

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fRightj Students use telephone booths in the school for placing calls to parents and friends. Doug Owen and Mario Formissuno use this one as a hideaway during the day. fBelowj Although in his first year as a mechanical drawing teacher, Mr. Bruce Chapin has many second year students. Cardinal Iohonn Hott is confused as a complex assignment confronts him. 112 SENIORS

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Hustle and bustle brews tea Continued from previous page choose what to bring. It's nice to work with these people, said Pam Snyder. A few days before the Tea, the officers collected the lists. Over eighty students' signatures prom- ised home-made foods. The day before the Tea, seniors cheerfully mixed pleasure with work. They spelled out w-e-l-c-o- m-e with imitation leaves on the glass windows looking out into the courtyard, and dressed the lobby in fa1l's browns and golds. When they were finished with the decorations, they all said to themselves, with Barb Reynolds, I think the Tea will be a successfl The day of the Tea and heavier workloads arrived simultaneously. The last minute details could no longer be put off until tomorrow. They had to be dealt with in the few hours which remained. The seniors swarmed into the home-ec room, crowding the tables with trays and desserts. Those who could, helped arrange the food at- tractively on the trays and special dishes. With all the freshly baked foods, it did, as Iane Hubbard said, Smell like a bakery. Two hours before the Tea saw the seniors setting up the silver laminated tables from the cafeteria. Boys weren't the only ones who had the opportunity to show off their strength. Where the boys were scarce, the senior girls flexed their muscles and dragged the tables into Continued on p 116 Iacqueline Besser Marcia Birch Maryjo Black Donna Bobalick Loretta Bodison Charles Bolton, Ir. 114 SENIORS Robert Bond Gina Boyer Iane Brach Steven Brawitsch AV 1, Margaret Brosnan Bonnie Brown . , , .p 1 fRightj Most students use study halls for catching up on the latest gossip. Iohn Hosenfuss proves that there's always an exception as he memorizes the famous To be or not to be I , . . .,.. soliloquy from Hamlet.