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

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4 5 1 . S S, HS' Oh thank heaven for 7-l'l slurpees on hot spring days. Sipping on the flavor of the month, cherry, . 'S -ers. if i'WaiN,. Q 5 N if ,Z A . is 3 . 3 if 2 i W ,S Q, ryr s -Ffa ' iss - 55-fr .. .w if! x H J 4 P9525 -3 W fs, Lisa Johnson waits for the bus to take her to the vocational classes at Addison. ww-Ms' Ten-minutes break the routine of the typical school day Mary Perkins and Richard Hamm take advan- tage of the morning break between second and third periods to socialize. pu., -we.. Q.. Y - Pts: ' 'Y' W ret J lin, ,W s f' is E 4 15 it if A219 ,.,. ,tg A55 , r -A :Qi-g if .ty 1-ff Q . .gif---ISXNQL 5 . ss . ..fefe.....,.,x.- - .fs ' 'f -ir Q- 13- I-isis. X get qi xx Ass . .ti 2-iswf :. J We .. - .- Q E-mf. si. .M A, ... Q 4 ' ,En 2 gg ie si Q . .,.gg,ge. .- :...1.t :.,.WQs-,f. : .s-N: V -f--'- ' r t s t rt el . WW - . , K t A Mfg-,g.EeS.f ' -, is V 1 I iff: K Q . VW A -.ir - ' I .1135 - ' ' 4.9 it ffi . Buses hug the curb at the end of the day, wait- ing to haul over 500 students home. The yellow caravan departs promptly at 2:40 each day. Typical Day 27

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N59 QE Qt QPW QS WYE ln ever-changing Colonel Country, some things still stay the same. It never comes easily, even with a bowl of Post Toasties waiting at the table or the sound of Rob O'Brady's voice on the clock radio at the crack of dawn. The school lunch for today. he says, is . . . . duddlelut, duddlela .... fish sticks, french fries, creamy cole slaw, and chocolate cake. But lunch is five hours away. There's still the morning to get through. It's not a special morning, mind you. lt's a typical morning in a typical day at William Fleming High School. The typical morning begins with a bus ride for some 500 students who map the route to 3649 Cove Road on a fleet of brand new school-system-owned yellow buses. By 8: 15, the new parking lot, speed breakers intact, is already bulging with 300 cars, two jeeps, and Wild Bill's vintage Greyhound. Occasionally, an early-morning Band practice stops the flow of traffic a minute or two. Occasionally, the smell of those fish sticks already baking spreads out across the campus. Occasionally, the blink- ing red lights of a landing jet silhouette themselves against the mountains that never seem to change, but never stay the same. Schedule l means routine - two fifty- minute classes, a ten-minute break, another class, then homeroom, stuck smack-dab in the middle of the school day. A voice on the intercom breaks through with those words you can set your watch by - l have two announcements. Sometimes, the Joseph Mayo Community Choir is practicing after school. Sometimes, there is another meeting of the Grapelettes. But in the typical day at William Fleming High School, all good announcements know they should come in twos. Lunch - waiting it out for those fish sticks that Rob O'Brady was duddlelut, duddlelaing about at the crack of dawn, or jetting to McDonald's for a Big Mac and a chocolate shake. The typical day ends 26 Typical Day for almost 200 students after fourth period. Two hundred-fifty more exit after fifth. The rest wait it out until 2:35. Most days, the campus stays awake with practices or meetings or games at least until the little hand points to six and the big one passes twelve. Even at night, play rehearsals, the sound of square dancers, an occasional basketball game or wrestling match, keep the place from settling in. Except for an occasional prankster with a paint brush in hand and 76 stenciled on his mind, the typical day rolls into the past tense as the mountains stand guard. Little Debbie Cakes and hot dogs make choosing a menu difficult for Doug Keith and Mark Pinkard. The a la carte line adds variety to the daily school lunch fare. ,y,,, ,,,,.,l,,, : , w e Qing .,, 5 :gf gif, j 4, ' mv, 1 , 3? it if Q35 ff me

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ia . . - P8500 Crea m, confetti, and concerts give the typical day a jar Sure-shot contestant creams Mr. T, J. Ross as he gets the bad end of the deal at the Price a Deal pep assembly, Roslyn Burnette, the big winner of the day, won the grand prize of throwing a cream pie at Mr. Ross. Not even the mountains knew the meaning of the word peace when rou- tine did a topsy-turvy and the sound of assemblies filled the air. Crammed onto every square inch of the color-coded bleachers, the juniors and seniors watched for the sophomores' shock at the first pep assembly. Most sophomores said that they had never heard so much noise in their whole life. J.V. cheer- leader Karen Cook agreed that an initiation into the Spirit of '76 left her a little numb at first, and for a few minutes, she was so overwhelmed that she forgot she was supposed to be cheering. For Head Cheerleader Robin Roach. pep assemblies meant hours of practice and planning and keeping fingers crossed that the pep assembly would live up to its name. With Shining Star and Takin' Care of Business as back-up music, the cheerleaders kept the agenda rolling with stunts and skits. Two skits that brought the most laughs were the chorus line of guys competing for the Ugly Man on Campus Contest and the take-off of a quiz show called Price a Deal. Cheerleaders weren't the only ones who wound up center stage on the gym floor during the school year. Senior Renee Watson. selected as Christmas Madonna, remembers waking up the morning of the Christmas Assembly with butterflies in her stomach. But when she reflected on the reason for what she was doing, the moment became very real for her. Butterflies squeezed their way into the lives of SCA candidates who answered impromptu questions about school life. Performances by a rock group, Freefare, and the United States Army Military Tach Band rounded out the schedule of typical days that man- aged. by hook or by crook, to turn out not-so-typical. Change of command finds SCA President Barry Simmons transferring his gavel to Darrell Davis at the SCA Installation Assembly. 28 Assemblies l J