Walterboro High School - Paw Print / Lair Yearbook (Walterboro, SC)

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Above: What's going on, can I know too? Well aren't you going to tell me Valarie, George and Mark Allen? Above: Vonda and Ronny sure do look good acceptin award for the Band of Blue. Above: Oh wow! You've caught it. Are you going to do anything else for us? This just set my day off right. Above: Vonda, Lisa and Kay are happy over their perfom but still say should have gotten 1st place. Above: That's nice practicing over your show. Hope you win. 20 Band Contest

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WHAT IS A PEP RALLY? ve: is there something wrong with Coach Hall? Janet Dantzer and Joni are having fun up there. Well don't worry we ll get into the spirit. You mean to tell me that you don't know what a Pep Rally Is? Mol 1 don't. Well let me tell you! A pep rally is when the students try to boost their football team up to win. Do you have fun at these rallies? Do you have fun You just don't know, girl, you will soon find out how much fun you can have if you just put your mind to it. Is that all they do? No! when we get fired up in the Gym we start to have a contest between the Seniors and Juniors to see who has the most spirit, you can yell all you want to, and the Pep Rallies have some good privileges. Here's some cheers I like to sing at the tallies and Games. Super Sen tors, yea Time to get down, yea Should we hal]ar yea Should we shout, yea Should we tum this ball game out? say yea, yea, yea, say yea, yea, yea. Jiving Junior, yea Hme to get down, yea Should we halla, yea Should we shout, yea Should we turn this ball game out? Say yea, yea, yea, say yea, yea, yea Give me a B-U-L L D O-G-S! What you got? Bulldogs! Who's gonna win? Bulldtigs! Goooooooooooooo Dogs! Above; Tina, Ann, Edie, and Jackie show their spirit- Come on you can do better than that now, show the Bulldogs you've got spirit. 19

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ONE STEP TO MAKE In Oct 25, 1980, the band of blue ventured to It was to be their biggest contest of the year and v their best performance in the band's history. band was relaxed there was a casual atmo- reabout the trip. They listened to music, played iesr and talked to each other to keep away any lion. ds band is made up of people that is equal in irtance. One would think the Seniors would be fcne to stand out of the crowd. For the seniors, it their chance to do something to leave behind, some, this was their fourth or fifth year in the id. It was the Seniors’ Last, Hurrah. After years jot placing, this was the last chance, lanv band members felt this had to be the year to :e. They felt they worked long and hard during Bmer and some winter months There was a (tain spirit about this band like never before, ts the Band of Blue marched on the field about il-thirty that night, one could tell that the inten was very high You could see in your eyes that fr had come not to go away disappointed again ir performance on the field was superb It ’s hard ind many words to describe this great perform- ing ■hound HI o clock, the awards were being given M lo the victors The excellent and superior were yen out first. After this came the time fur the bands a: placed When the announcer called Richland Irfheast for third, it was like all the stadium froze The mood was now set and the tone was just right The next words the announcer said was that Waiter- boro had won second place There was jublication and tears after this. Many felt the band should have placed first. It was a very close contest between the top three. Richland Northeast came in third with a 288.5, Walterboro came in second with a 289.0, and Sum- merville. our neighbor rival, won with a 289.2. One could pinch themselves to see if this was reality and not a fantasy world after the contest When the band was entering Walterboro, they were met by the police to escort them through the city Following behind were a line of cars. This was truly an exciting weekend for the Band of Blue Veronican Clayton said, ' Being 2nd in the state is a nice feeling, but it only gives us a desire to try' even harder Robbie Goodwin said, It was a rewarding feeling tocome out a win ner after a lot of hard work. He also expresses his support and gratitude for the support of WHS. Jessica Fields feels good that her senior year turned out so wonderfully Valerie Williams said that after five years in the band she felt something different during the prac- tices. This year was like her rookie year when the band received jts first superior award at state contest. Above: Mr. Young is very pleased at the Band of Blue's performance, seems to look like he’s enjoying himself. Band Contest . 21