Wando High School - Legend Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, SC)

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A Pnmd Heritage Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday Mt. Pleasant. Happy Birthday to you! Last October, the town of Mt. Pleasant held its 150th birthday cel- ebration. and Wando participated in the events of the finale weekend. Saturday morning, the student council worked at the Children' Fes- tival at Alhambra Hall. Pilar Ritchie. Eliza Middleton Stacey Peterson Wyche Warren, and Kristen Tram- mell were at the Ring Toss, while at the Milk Can Ball Toss were Eliza- beth Craven Katherine Sparks Ai- mee Rowland Shawn Slater and Britt Westendorff Britt admitted, Despite being hit by thousands of The pr ide ot the Sesquicentenmal Parade, the Wando Marching Band led the procession in its path down Coleman Blvd to the Sea Island Shopping Center tennis balls. I really enjoyed helping out the little kids. The parade was the next day. The Wando Band led the procession with their rendition of Soul Man. Fur- ther along the parade route, the cheerleaders were riding around with the Q107 Coke Video Van. After the parade, everyone moved to Patriots Plaza for the Spirit of '87 Pep Rally. Q107 and Charleston Mo- bile Music sponsored the event which featured performances by the Wando band, dance line, and cheer- leaders. It was a wonderful way to round out the sesquicentennial cele- bration and usher in Wando's Home- coming 1987. Cheerleaders Kerry Dupuy and Jenifer Has- kill show their spirit to the crowd gathered for the Spirit of '87 Pep Rally held at Patriot's Plaza after the parade.

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Reputation “You are about to enter a new di- mension of time and space beyond your wildest imagination. You are about to take an incredible voyage into ... the Party Zone!” The East Cooper Area as a fast growing, Yuppie haven has gotten a reputation as a community from which some wild parties have come. Most of this is purely rumor, though. In fact, these happenings are few and far between. Some people can remember (even if just from hearing some of these rumors) the parties that ended in disaster, but somehow nobody ever seems to be able to recall those parties that were all in the name of fun. It was a familiar scenario that oc- curred almost every weekend: a small group of friends had little or nothing to do on a Friday or Satur- day night, so they got together at someone’s house to have a good time. Sure, some of the activities at these parties may not have brought waves of parental approval, but at least they didn’t bring destruction to the house or guilt to the partici- pants. For those party-goers, a visit to the Party Zone was a unique and enjoyable experience. Shawn Slater Reaction Teen-age partying Do you know where your sons and daughters were the night of Saturday. Sept. 19? Well, there’s a good chance they were at my house or at one of the other two unchaperoned weekend teen-age parties that have become a regular occurence east of the Cooper. For those of you who haven’t had the opportunity of being absentee hosts yet, let me give you an idea of how it goes. You plan to go out of town for the weekend. You make arrange- ments for the kids, especially daughters, to spend the weekend with someone. Then, one of your kids decides to have a small group of friends over to your house with- out your ever finding out about it. From there things go straight down the tubes. This small group starts spreading the word. In our case, we came home Sat- urday night rather than Sunday, as originally planned. We pulled up in the driveway at 11 p.m. to a park- ing lot of about 15 cars. There were three cars full leaving when we arrived. Inside were approxi- mately 40 teenagers. It was the two couples in my bedroom that disturbed me the most. Needless to say. they were not discussing world affairs. We’ve dealt with our teen-ager and she will be paying for this mistake for a very long time. The house, garage and yard yielded a harvest of six full garbage bags of empty beer cans. We were luckier than some. We got home early before anything got too far out of hand. Some of the kids had already left, many of them driving drunk friends home. Several things occur to me. First of all. under the new drinking laws, in a situation like this if a carload of kids left our house drunk and had a wreck and got hurt or worse, would we be held liable? Who is ultimately responsible for selling all that beer to minors? Just be- cause a kid says he was invited to your home, does that mean that you have no legal recourse to prosecute them for trespassing? Where have we. as parents, gone wrong in teaching our kids the in- trinsic value of respecting some- one else’s property. Whose house will be next? Will it be yours? Don’t be too sure it won’t. I never thought it could happen to me. Oct. 4. 1987 JULIA P. KIRKLEY 1218 Chandler Road Awendaw the town in October, presents a par- V ent's point of view. (News Courier, printed with permission)

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 Whoah! Kristen Trammell tries not to fall off of the pedal cart as she and Allison Brown hand out Q107 bumper stickers behind the Q's Coke Video Van at the Sesquicentenmal Parade. Q107 DJ Doctor Barry Hill sits proudly atop the Yamaha motorcycle to be given away at the Spirit of '87 Pep Rally in the parking lot of Patriot's Plaza Shannon Asbury nelps Jim Yeargin prepare for his part as a Confederate soldier in the Civil War reenactment during Mt. Pleasant's sesquicentenmal week celebration in Octo- ber Elizabeth Craven and David Gwynne- Vaughan participate in the reading of the Pre- amble to the Constitution at the pep rally in September That’s Funny ... You Don’t Look 200 We the People These immortal words echoed throughout the country in 1987 as the Constitution of the United States of America celebrated its bi- centennial. For Wando. the highlight of the celebration was a We the People pep rally in September. The rally opened with the presentation of the flags by the members of the Junior Air Force ROTC class and fea- tured a reading of the Preamble to the Constitution by student body president Elizabeth Craven Although the Constitution has been with us for over two hundred years now, it barely seems a day over 199. With only twenty-six for- mal ammendments. it is the longest lasting stable form of government in history.