Waverly High School - Novel Yearbook (Waverly, OH)

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Up in the morning and off to school: summer vacation ended and Waverly’s students — roughly 700 of them—started another school year. Driving, walking, riding the bus, they came from as far as 25 miles to the school’s main building, built in 1931 and housing 24 classrooms, a study hall, a library, a cafeteria, an auditorium and the Waverly City Schools administrative offices; and the “new gym,” a physical education facility built in 1974, housing two classrooms, a chemistry, lab and locker rooms as well as the spacious gym. School was also a football field, tennis courts, two baseball -softball diamonds and a new supply building built by students from the junior carpentry class from the vocational school. In front, a relatively new (1973) parking lot. To the side, a garage for the system’s 23 buses. Inside Waverly High School: chaos for the first week. □ Left: Senior Lilly Thompson. Opposite: Girls' reserve basketball player Melinda Dixon: Queen Tammy Fyffe and escort Chris Smalley. Homecoming Dance. Parnell Pollard. Richard Vinger and Tom.Frylmg in parking lot

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Current Events July. Plastic helmets, “survival kits” and T-shirts with targets commanding “Skylab: land here” were part of the Chicken Little craze that swept the country when NASA announced that the Skylab was falling. The space station fell over the desolate back country of Western Australia after weeks of worry and speculation. July. In a surprise move. President Carter asked for the resignations of all Cabinet officers and accepted five. The “massacre” was followed by staff evaluation forms, grading lesser White House workers on skill, personality and dedication. July. United Nations delegates met to solve the problem of the “boat people,” Vietnamese refugees in crowded fishing boats in the South China Sea. Countries pledged more money or raised refugee quotas, but the fate of the boat people remained uncertain. August. After meeting secretly with a man from the Palestine Liberation Organization. Andrew Young resigned as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. His meetings caused controversy, violating U.S. policy to steer clear of PLO negotiations until the organization accepts Israel’s right to exist. August. History’s largest oil spill, from a Mexican oil rig. stained Texas beaches... A woman in Naples. Italy gave birth to octuplets. Only two survived...New York Yankees catcher Thurman Munson died as a result of a private plane crash...Chrysler Corp.. failing financially, asked for a federal government bailout. August. After a record 175 days in space, two Soviet cosmonauts returned to Earth. 2 OfViniuj

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Registration classes. Lunch lines backed up to the teachers’ lounge. The usual complaints of “I signed up for that and got this” and ‘‘When are we gonna get lockers?” This first week was hectic to say the least. Mr. David Surrey. Mr. John Boyer and Mrs. Doris Young worked to switch class and lunch periods until finally everyone in every class had some place to sit and the old dual lunch gave was to the new three lunck system with A-lunch, B-lunch and C-lunch squeezed in between. Business as usual for classes picked up immediately. Juniors started magazine sales, with a $4500 sales goal, to raise money for the prom. Sophomores ordered class rings and seniors had the troublesome business of pictures, pictures, pictures. The perennial financial problems became even worse with inflation and the rising cost of gold. Freshmen, of course, just had to adjust to high school life: green excuse slips, pink excuse slips, bells, tardy bells and “ten-minute” bells. □ Right: Yearbook pkkup day Opposite: Junior Rick McCloud: Vernon Beatty: freshmen 1 ini Breitenbach. Skyla Manson and Kim Wright at the Homecoming Dance, football huddle. 4 OpeiuiMj