Woodbridge High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Woodbridge, VA)

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Comedy and Tragedy As we live our our pre-derermined roles, we gain experience ond maturity. We ex¬ perience the ups and downs — the com¬ edy ond the tragedy. Remember when we both fell madly in love with the some person, who wonted nothing to do with either one of us? How funny it was. Then we remember the loss of o family member, or o friend. Not just through death, but the drifting owoy os two people grow ond change ond simply choose different paths. All these bittersweet experiences help us mature. We get o taste of life ond realize that soon we ' ll be on our own. Is that my cue? Junior Joonne Zimmerman stands ready and waiting for the next parr of the flag- twirlers ' routine. The students who were on this team provided on added attraction ot both pep rallies ond football gomes where they performed. That s ounds pretty boring. Junior Bob Cloyton listens closely to the assignment his teocher is giving but is probably thinking of other things. Many assignments seemed unnecessary to the students but were deem¬ ed useful by the teacher. Almost time for the bell. Chet Cory, o junior, has pock¬ ed his things ond is ready to leave doss ond proceed to the next. With only five minutes between classes, no time could be wasted gathering belongings. Whadda yo think cooch? ' Cooches Greg Shifflett ond Alan Ross discuss the ream ' s chances for o win. The coaches con run ond train the team during practices but come game time, they’re on their own. Munchin ' out ... Senior Mark Fajna puts it away in on effort to finish before the bell rings. The twenty-five minute lunch shifts left just enough rime for earing and made it difficult to do last minute homework or socializing. 4 Opening

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In the Limelight And 1, and 2 ... Student Band director John Wight leads the Viking Marching Band through their produc¬ tion of halftime during o footboll gome. John kept tempo and gave cues to different sections of the bond during a selection. All the world ' s a stage and we ore merely players.” William Shakespeare couldn ' t have been more correct describ¬ ing high school. Life is much like a long run¬ ning play. Long-running oil right — four ye ars to be exact. Just like actors, we are many different people during this time: student, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, frustrated adolescent. We are port of many different groups: clubs, student body, social circles. We unknowingly act out our lives, following a script written for us by someone we moy never see. The many facets of our high school career moke up the whole picture, the whole ploy. We go through the scenes one by one trying not to blow our lines. Finally it ' s closing night, our senior year. In the true tradition of the stage we wont to go out with o bong. As we leave, the crowd screams for on encore, which next year they will get. For now the show is over but it will be re-enocted every year offer us by others. Surrounded by chicken wire. Junior Mary Troknyo works diligently on the junior doss homecoming floor. The floor was constructed ot the house of Mimi Thomas, also o junior. The hard work paid off with o first place in the competition. Innocent beauty. Katie Dollek shows on amazing amount of spirit for someone only two years old. An aspiring cheerleader, Katie is possibly the youngest, most spirited Woodbridge fon oround. Will she be Homecoming queen 1998? Come on guys, get a touchdown! Varsity cheerleaders Amy Howard ond Donno Welborn watch intently while o football gome is ployed. The support the cheerleaders encouraged from the crowd of fans boosted the players ' morales before and dur¬ ing o gome. ' Opening 3

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And here she comes. Senior homecoming queen nominee Debbie Mosren is escorred by her fother on¬ to the foorboll field during halftime ot the homecom¬ ing gome. Post homecoming queens smile and wish her luck os she crosses the frock. I ' ll get that piece of confetti. Junior Frank Finomore reaches down to pick bits of paper off of o fellow fan’s bock. During football gomes, confetti mode up of small bits of newspaper, was thrown in reflection of the fans ' spirit. Is there really o horsefly on my back? Yearbook editors Julie Holdren, Liso Vogler, Amee Singh, and Jim O ' Donnell relax in the pool ot the Seven Springs Yearbook seminar. Each year the editors go to Cham¬ pion, Pennsylvania to o workshop sponsored by the publishers. Faster than the speed of light? No, just o photograph of cars passing Woodbridge Senior High School ot night. The stoplights seen in the picture were o new addition to the roadway in front of the school cutting down on many traffic problems. Attention ... Please? Speaker of the House, Louro Felske, colls to order o meeting of the S.C.A. Executive Board. A respect for authority and order is necessary for o meeting to function smoothly. This is more dif¬ ficult of class meetings since there are more people there. Silent Support . . . Mr. Thomas Goul watches anxiously os the football ream works its way through o tough gome. Mr. Goul ' s faithful attendance was o boost In morale ond showed that he reolly cored about his school ond his students. Opening 5