Waverly High School - Novel Yearbook (Waverly, OH)

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Homecommq TISSUE PAPER. At the store it comes in long folds, but boatbuilding requires small squares Junior Robin Tackett snips the paper to fit specifications. A FUNERAL? Only for the Athens Bulldogs effigy, brought to the high school’s front lawn in style, with hearse, pallbears and mourners.

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NIGHT PARADE- majorettes, field commander, pompon girls ahd the band perform the pre game ceremonies, which also include floats and Corvettes with attendants. candidates and escorts. CHEERLEADERS GREET junior Arlene Davena and escort Phil Pack after their lap around the track I heir white Vette was chauffeured be Student Council member Doug Bloss. BABYSITTERS for the parade: sophomore Kathy Slagle and freshman Nancy Adams. tlMivtoinixq 13

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Floatbuilding bills drain class treasuries “We believe! We believe!” Coach Rockie Natoli taught the cheer to his football team and to students gathered for effigy Thursday night of Homecoming week, making Tigers believers—in a Homecoming win. After the snake dance—a chain of band members, cheerleaders and psyched students—wound its way through town, all gathered in the front lawn of the high school for the effigy. The fire was lit...and a hearse pulled up. What’s going on?” students mumbled. “Who died?” But the funeral was for the Athens Bulldogs. The effigy Dog was carried out of the hearse and LOOKING GOOD: As Tim Varney draws the “Rockie’s Place backdrop for the freshman float, twin Pat Varney. Melissa Goble and freshman class adviser Miss Sheryll Thomas look on and offer criticisms and compliments. ANY FLOATBUILDER is familiar with the work involved in poking pieces of tissue paper through chicken wire. Senior David Burriss stuffs it for the senior’s who earned a first place award for their “Blast Bulldogs gun design. thrown onto the fire as students chanted “We believe! We believe!” The bonfire crowd thinned, and floatbuilders hurried back to barns and garages to finish Wild Wild West float entries. Floatbuilding had started the previous Saturday. Freshmen at the coveted Hardman’s barn in town, sophomores behind Long’s Body Shop on Rt. 104. juniors in Robinson’s garage on old Rt. 23 and seniors on Forest Hills in Armour’s garage worked on ideas for the Wild Wild West theme chosen by Student Council members. Again, floatbuilding racked up big bills for classes, often calling on individual contributions when the class treasury ran dry. Senior class adviser Zoa Craumer, whose class won the first place trophy, at an estimated cost of $200. said. “I honestly believe some people think it takes just $50 to build a float.” □ PAINTING A CACTUS on Ihe class float's backdrop, sophomore John Car-cut! spends another evening at a float-building session. Homecoming 15