Winnacunnet High School - Sachem Yearbook (Hampton, NH)

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The door bursrs open os o jeons and reeshirr-dad srudenr is Thrown from rhe classroom He lands on his bock in o worerrrough placed hophozordly near rhe wall ourside Bm 9 From inside come shours of lough - rer, whoops, and shrill cries of Yeehoh' os old-time piano music srorrs up The defeored srudenr picks him- self up, shakes his head, ond swaggers bock in for revenge, where he is mer by jeers, rhreors, ond chal- lengers. Soon he ond Mrs Millerre saunrer our of rhe room, glaring or each orher They cenrer rhemselves in rhe hall, bock ro bod , ond begin ro walk forward, ren spaces They draw, whirl around ro shoor, when suddenly rhe bell rings. Saved by rhe bell' Acrually, rhere is no room in rhe holl for o worer rrough Bm. 9 hos never seen a piano, and firearms ore nor allowed in school. (Mr. Fernold doesn'r approve of gunfighring anyway!) Bur while rhe props ore imoginory, rhe spirir of rhe Old Wesr is olive ond well in Winnocunner High School 1980-81 marks rhe birrh of a new breed of classes; rhe firsr of which is rhe Wesrern Experience Pioneered by Mrs. Millerre and Mr Bice, rhe course offers an olrernonve ro rhe convenrionol 'merhod of earning English ond Hisrory credirs, ond hos proven ro be one of rhe more popular of rhe year's offerings; our of 135 applicanrs only 28 were occepred (Class size is limired by ovoilabiliry of space ond reaching sroff.) The doss cenrers oround rhe year 1856, afrer rhe gold rush ond before rhe Civil War One of rhe mom objectives of rhe course deals wirh living rhe life—Temporarily, or leasr—of Wesrern-ho wagon-bound pioneers To experience rhis sensor ion rhe doss is planning severol odvenrurous ocriviries rhor are unique ro W H S bur commonplace ro Americans of 1856 Such as? you ask. ‘'Well, soid Mr Bice, Travelling over rhe rough Terrain of N.H. in o covered wagon for 9 days is one