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

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fLeftj Eight-live percent of the student body uses the buses. In order to accommodate post-session activities these buses leave at 2:50 p.m. W, V,,t,,M.U,Mf-M KJ M,,,W,...M-1 ff-W f ,,,.,,,.....f.-o-v ' WW www , ....... X 1' Z M .,4..4...o,4-yn-4 mwmowm W X in 9 A ...MW ,. M K ,W,,W,,,. V x M- .M M. .... gr,,g,g1...g cc,, 2 3 Q r , Q s c ' ' , . ..... V ' .ma if A. QAbQvf-:J Pick-ups prove a modern and practical vogue. jane Hart, Ann Venuti, and john Hurt pull into the parking lot reserved for students with the highly-prized parking stickers. fLeftj Before starting his Montgomery run, Mr. Charlie Nobors checks his rearview mirror and laughs with an unseen joker. TRANSPORTATION 17

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--aug fAbovej Bus 147 stops on Rt. 211 near the former Montgomery high school. Before centralization students could walk to and from school. 16 TRANSPORTATION fLeftj On sunny mornings the wait at the bus stop can be a pleasant experience, but rainy times find the students huddling under trees for a bit of protection from the dampness. oise, I Bu r'd p t nlolfef be Z :stile raves 0 IIIIISIC, awakening crowds s the sun cracked the morning sky, the VC student discovered himself in his bathroom mirror. That self-same student emerged an hour later, scrubbed and dressed to trek to the bus stop. The crisp air banished the thought of sleep. Getting up early to get the bus is really the pits. When I get dressed in the morning, I'm still asleep. I don't even know what I have on, said Ed- die McKelvey. The bus rumbled down the street. It loomed before the student. The doors whooshed open. I wait about ten minutes for the bus in the morning. It is pretty crowded already and then we pick up even more kids, grumbled Billy Kline. Tripping up the steps, the student spied crowded seats, narrow aisles, and heard the piercing noise decibles. The bus is super-crowded. Even with three in just about every seat, there are still kids standing from one end of the bus to the other, com- plained Billy Mirola. Positioning himself on the edge of a seat, the student prepared to engage in battle. The bus I ride is really unique. On the way home, I ride the Middle School bus. Those kids are different. They hide under some of the seats. Others fight over the back seats, said Brenda Swithers. Spitballs, gum, and lunches whizzed past his ears. L'Once, during a fire drill on the bus, I didn't duck my head. I hit my head on the top of the emergency exit door, grimaced Sandy Wheeler. Music blared: from Donny Osmond to Ted Nugent. If it werenit for the music on the bus, I would probably fall back to sleep, said Eddie McKelvey. I like the music on the bus. It is pretty decent, added Billy Kline. The music is so loud, you have to scream to talk to the person next to you, Bill Brooks griped. Voice hoarse from screaming, eyes red from smoke, slightly deaf from the noise level, and bearing the scars of battle, the student arrived at school. fRightj A throw-back to the 1950's, the souped- up car is reminiscent of Grease. David Clark drives to school daily from Walden.

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Cafeteria packs mix d bag ot like mother used to make tate law required schools to make lunches available to students but the howis and why's of eating for not eatingj them were not as explicitly described. The lunch room tended to be a bar- rage of brown bags, Saran Wrap, milk cartons, and lunch trays - each with its own history and personality, Hot school lunches range from the Viking Burger to Devil's Food Cake at Halloween, to Victory Salad during Homecoming. The names, however, haven't convinced many students to eat the lunches. ln fact, the lunches have fallen prey to the taunts of stu- dents, tastes. For some, the feelings about school lunches are hang-overs from the middle school. Donna Halter, who brown bagged it, said, 'tl ate fa school lunchj in junior high and got sick. I still don't trust the majority of school lunches. Glenn Marroon didn't feel as strong- ly about the middle school lunches, but when he was asked if the high school lunches were better he gave a definite, HYes!N Mike Iune ate two lunches - one hot, one cold. He said, They,re de- , ' fl 4 J f H1 'S t - K . S. . ik, L: V F2 t ' if fAbovej An extra ice cream may cost 206, but to Brad Rogers it is well worth the cash outlay. 18 STUDENT LIFE cent. In fact, Mike was enthusias- tic about what he considered to be the school's specialty - tuna fish. 'fl al- ways have tuna fish. They have tuna fish, I have tuna fish. Others shared Mike's opinion, As Iim Winchell said, All I eat is the tuna fishf, Mary Warrener disagreed with Mike and lim. She said, The only thing that's good are the salads. Other students neither brought nor bought their lunch. Debbie Williams, for instance, didnit eat because she was Hon a diet. No matter what students thought of school lunches - whether they liked them or not - they all agreed with Sue Schoen when she said, lt isn't like my mother used to make.