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

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here comes a time in every man's life when he has to tue his own Your Dad told you so he plopped you on the bed you first much s bows and your Dad's longer. All yours did was wind knots. You've had to tie your own shoes ever since. You knew it would hurt a little when the Red Cross jabbed for blood, but you knew it would hurt a lot if you didn't them. You knew the Symposium would tell you tqymake something of life: You listened-and questioned so know how you could. You tried out for team when you knew you might not make you signed up for a course you thought you'd probably fail. You tripped, you stumbled, sometimes you fell. But you picked yourself up and put yourself back on your own two feet, wearing the shoes you had learned to tie so long ago. Baccalaureate at th Principal James C Taylor and Dean Senior Class. and students Day, 10 A lotto look back on

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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

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'A man has to tie his own shoes' uniforms, drummers Isaac Chilton, and Mike Erdmann the tempo for a concert at Making minutes count, junior Karen Grogan brings her books outdoors to study for a final exam in English. : ..,-vv M! ,-. A lotto look back on 11