William Fleming High School - Colonel Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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1 - - 1 - I Sometimes you just couldn t smile Time runs out as Danny Grinnell watches his team face a 22-21 loss to the Andrew Lewis Wolverines, The Colonels closed the season with a 5-4-1 record, The beginning of the and finds Sheila Chatman and many of her classmates watching the Capping Assembly with tears in their eyes, -'F' 8 A lot to look back on

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. 5 Ls J, ' t,- s T35 is 'ti Myth v 'A is i -Fi' x-gy f 335- i Singing for '76, student director Robbie Harris ionns other Band and Choir members at the Cavalcade of American Music. Thank you, Lord, sing Carsaundra Johnson, Althea Croson, Dana Franklin, Wanda Jennings. and Joan Barnes for the Black History Week Assembly, 1 ometimes celebrations said the things you just couldn't find words for yourself. lt was hard to say, l love you. so you squiggled Happy Mother's Day on a cake for your Mom, or cut out red hearts and slipped them to your friends. You planned thirteen Christmas presents with the 82.65 you'd saved for three months, but you could only buy two: you made the rest with a little bit of paper and a whole lot of love. lt was hard to say, Happy Birthday, America, but you taped a flag to your bike and let it fly in the breeze, and sat on a hill and watched the fireworks burst overhead. You never grew too big to celebrate. May- be you didn't tape a flag to your bike any- more, but you still got goose bumps when the Choir sang America the Beautiful You took time to celebrate other tl- r-g too '-' coming Black History Week games when the scoreboard had more points on our side 'H' than on theirs When there was cause for celebration sometimes words couldn t say it well enough

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hey used to say, Take your lickin's and smile like the dickens. But sometimes the lickin's seemed so hard that you couldn't make yourself smile, and not a pat on the back or even a whole pack of Lifesavers could help. And when you grew X 3 I older, there were still times when a whole pack. not even a whole crate, of Lifesavers could make the hurt go away. lt hun a lot when the Colonels didn't dance across the goal line I quite enough, or when the girls didn't make it to the State Basketball Tournament they waited so long to win. For some, it hurt that the last time a class stood to sing the alma mater would not be in the heart of nature's I wonder, but in the confines of a concrete civic center. For most, it hurt to leave at all. Most hurts soon went away, but some seemed to linger. lt never really stopped hurting when you found out that jersey number 88 would worn again, and then you realized battle hurt so much as it Warming up in the hot August sun. members of the Football Team work out with Assistant Coach George Miller. At the keyboard, senior Jennie Phillips plays for her third and final spring concert with the Choir. The grand finale for the Band finds seniors Sue Santolla and Sarah Feather in the last concert of their high-school careers. A lot to look back on 9