Washington Lee High School - Blue and Gray Yearbook (Arlington, VA)

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QR L' 4...-. ,... Nu' Q5 -en-3 V . ,FY . ROBYN FONTES ANN E. FORNARO MARGARET FREEMAN JERRY FREEZE ? ' 2? Y 7--7' I I l l MONICA FRERES SCOTT FULTON MARIE GALLAGHER YOLANDA GALLEGO Senior Privileges?? With the demolition of the old building went the privileges thot once were occorded to Woshington-Lee Seniors. Seniors were once gronted the privileges of leoving the gym first following ossemblies, speciol pork- ing rights, sociolizing during lunch periods in the senior closs lounge, o senior forewell ossemblv, ond o senior tolent show. The l98l Senior sow the ropid decline of these privileges, most to the point of extinction. In o poll monv l98l seniors were found to be unowore thot these privileges hod ever even existed! Some seniors, however, recolled thot in their first yeor ot W-L, the l979 Senior Closs wos trying to enforce the pri- vilege of Ieoving first ofter ossemblies. This privilege, os so mony others hove, hos olmost been forgotten. lt seems thot the only remoining privileges ore the senior fcirewell ossembly ond the senior tolent show, The Closs of '8l's hopes were thot those privileges would not go the woy of the others, but will remoin in the yeors to come. 'I. Corhy Proctor could not seem to think of ony senior privileges 2. When Richord Thompson tried to toke Odvontoge of one of his privileges, he WGS denied, 3. Amodor Sontollo tried to enforce o fovorite privilege, poving Sl2 for dues' 4. And here we hove Bryon Mclfochern ot the senior closs tolent show singing You Light UD My Life H 28 if Seniors ni Q E 1 I Q Q Q E -aff

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Fourteen Number One Students? 11,1-5 A lt was a unique year at W-L because, con- trary to previous years, the graduating class of 1980-81 had, for its first class ranking in the fall, fourteen valedictorians. Nowhere in the history of W-L has there been this many voledictorions for a single class. A student earned the honor of being a valedictorian by having a grade point average of 5.0 lA's given five points, B's four, etc.1 or above. All of the fourteen valedictorians were considered number one in the class, and the fifteenth person was not considered number two, but number fifteen. Not only did the class of '81 have fourteen valedictorians, but had two of them tying for the number six position. These two people were Cindy Fang and Bryan McEachern. When asked how he felt about being tied, Bryan said, I think it's great! They both had the grade point aver- age of 5.1. The reason the grade point averages ex- ceeded 5.0 is that all of the valedictorians took Advanced Placement courses. In these courses, an A is given a value of six. When asked how the speaker at gradua- tion was chosen, Cindy Fang replied, The Class Officers decided that we lthe fourteen 4,7 Sl ,45- valedictoriansl would vote for a candidate among ourselves. Thus, both the vale- dictorians and the Class Officers worked together to choose Tamara Cohen as the speaker. Most tif not alI1 voledictorions planned to go on to college. When osked where she was applying and what she was planning to study, Karen Berg said, l'm applying to Yale University in Connecticut and William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia. I think I might major in Government or History. Cin- dy said she applied to UVA in the early admissions program. About what she was going to major in, she said, l'll probably major in math andfor Spanish. Most of the voledictorions involved them- selves in other activities despite the one to four hours they spent on homework each night. The activities included sports, drama, and clubs. Being a valedictorian is among one of the highest honors a high school stu- dent con earn. 1. Smile pretty, Valedictorianslg 2. Cynthia Terry shows how much fun studying is, right?, 3. Who says all that Valedictorians think about is school? We see you giving that guy the eye, Karen! 30 f Seniors CHRISTIE GOLDEN 'Our GAIL GOODMAN 'fr 3