Woodbridge High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Woodbridge, VA)

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I Rain, Rain Go Away. Come Again . . . ikrtUj When We ' re Covered and Ready! A silent drip of water turns into a shreik of ter¬ ror as it hits a well dressed female with perfectly placed hair. She wipes her face and then glares at the black hole ten feet above her on the lob¬ by roof. I hate these leaky roofs ' the girl replies as she dodges a trash can five steps in front of her. This was a common fear for most students. Avoiding people in the crowds, trashcans in the hall and dodging drips Looking inside out?!? Students evacuate the school during an¬ other fire drill. Leaving the school quietly and orderly was important during the fire drill. from the ceiling be¬ came a great athletic accomplishment. I hated all the trashcans but I guess it was bet¬ ter than stepping in two inches of rain soaked carpet, re¬ plied senior Amy Bodmer. Water did not just seep through the roofs in the halls but also in the classrooms. One of the worst struck areas was the history pod. Every time I came into the room I had to avoid sitting in a place where soaked tiles Ahhh, it’s the black hole! Not ex¬ actly, just a leaky roof. Students may recognize this sight and avoid it at all costs. The leaky roof will hopefully be repaired by the fall of 1988. were ready to fall or avoid sitting in a wet desk, commented senior Jolene Carter, a government student in Mr. Geoff Dodge ' s class. After a long period of rainfall the roof was so bad students want¬ ed to protest with um¬ brellas. This did not take place but instead the destruction of the roof became widely known and publicized by the media. School board members were notified and damage repair was taken into consideration. The at¬ tention was well de¬ served, and hopefully by the fall of 1988 WHS will have a beautiful, newly repaired roof. Fire Drills and Leaky Roofs

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No Smoke, No Fumes, No Fire ' flo ' fiaa So Why Are We All Outside? N hrrr ... the sound pierces through the building as students slowly make their way out of the school wondering whether it is a real fire or just a drill. Students at¬ tempted to walk quietly and in single file lines out the building safe from any danger. Classes were instructed to stay far from the building until the air horns sounded signaling it was safe to go back inside. ' ' Fire drills became a bother espe¬ cially when they were in the winter time, but I guess they were for our own good, said sopho¬ more Jessica Marsh. Administrators weren ' t the only people who hustled making sure the students were safely out of the building. The Norsemen had to rush out of their classrooms and report to their as¬ signed fire box to see which one was pulled and where the fire may be located. I not only had to avoid hitting people but also the trash cans in the lobby. I was sweating by the time ev¬ erything was under con¬ trol. Fire drills may have seemed to have no meaning and seemed time consuming, but the drills prepared students in case of a real fire and would have been very beneficial in the actual event. The drills should have been taken seri¬ ously, so if there was a real fire we would be prepared and people would know where to go, replied Mr. Don Brown, athletic director. £ Q Fire drills always shook me up. As a Norsemen I had to be ready when the run when the alarm sounded. Before I realized what I was doing I was run¬ ning down the hall to check my box. They always broke the monotony of the school day though. J A.J. Johnson Q Q didn ' t mind the trashcans when there were less than five people in the hall, then I couldn ' t trip over them. After a long period of rain, I hated walking through the hails because I was the one who always got dripped on. Stephanie Hudkins 99 Student Life

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Prince William County Schools Closed What Fun They Were! T he time is six o ' clock in the morning. Your alarm sounds waking you up. You look out the window and there it is — inches of white snow. Instinct tells you to turn on the radio and search for a news cast. Frantically you await those words that will determine your day. Finally the list of schools closings comes, and you hear Prince William schools closed. This is the phrase you have been waiting to hear. School is closed due to snow! Snow days are a welcome break for students. They help to get rid of those mid¬ winter school blues. Snow days give stu¬ dents the chance to sleep in late, go sled¬ ding, have snowball fights, and, yes, some¬ times even catch up on homework. As sen¬ ior Flarry Gardener put it, I like snow days be¬ cause they allow us to take a break from the rigors of school life and give us the opportunity to bring out the little kid in all of us. Hi, ho, hi ho, it’s off to sled we go! Seniors Kerri Mullen and Sandy Schultz seem to have come to a stop on their sled. Students had to remember to bundle up when they went sled¬ ding at night. How do I stop this thing? Senior Bryn Haase tries her luck at to- bogganning. On snow days stu¬ dents often took advantage of the weather by going sledding. Winter Wonderland. Junior Staci Sanders trudges through the still falling snow to a friend’s house. Walking was the main method of transportation dur¬ ing snow storms, especially for sfudents who ventured out be¬ fore the snow plows. Student Life