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Page 2 THE FULL MOON April 21,1978 Ingenuity Prevents Prom Panic Second lunch students gather along the wall. Spring Fever Strikes Have you noticed strange behavior among the students at Senior High lately? Like .... smiles during a Trig test or people humming to themselves between classes. Little things like that. What about all of the sun burns a couple of weeks ago. Well, the Full Moon staff noticed and decided that something was definitely up. “But what is it?! ?” we asked ourselves. After carefully pondering over the situation the answer was ap parent. It’s spring fever, that magical feeling that occurs each year about this time and causes, among other things, “river- mania.” One question remained, though, “How can you be sure you have it?” Naturally, the b^t way to find the answer to a question is to ask the authorities. So we did. The Full Moon’s roving reporters went into the halls of the school to ask students the thought provoking question, “How do you know when you have spring fever?” Here are some of the answers we got: Charles Lowder - “When baseball season starts.” Margaret Crisco - “When I get that barefoot feeling.” Benton Bogle - “When I tell my teacher that my homework ate my dog.” Cindy Talbert - “When I feel the urge to lay out of school and go riding with my car top down.” Chris Lambert - “When I have the constant urge to get my feet wet and I start practicing water- skiing in my b^room.” Frieda Miller - “I begin to count the days until June 9th.” Leslie Woodruff - “When William buys me flowers.” Loy Gulledge - “I ask myself.” Karen Kiser - “When Lisa Huneycutt starts playing Christmas music.” Joanne Neel - “When I lay out in the sun when it’s only, 52 degrees.” Alan Phillips - “I get ‘Senioritis’.” Stephanie Maske - “When I begin to feel more active.” Paula Carter - “When every day seems like Friday.” Susan Poplin - “Wh^n I come to school on Mondays sunburned.” Patti Love - “When I start wearing short-sleeved shirts in 42 degree weather.” David Herrin - “When I start getting ‘small’ driving home in my car.” By JAN HILL Prom time is drawing near and plans are being made. Many persons have problems making certain decisions. Here are a few prom tips which hopefully can be helpful. Instead of eating out at an expensive restaurant, invite a few couples over for a cookout. Each couple can chip in and this will cut down on the high cost. For the girls, if your budget does not allow a new dress, try borrowing one from a friend. After all, prom dresses are usually worn a couple of times and then stashed away in a closet to collect mothballs. The cost of long dresses ranges from $30 to “the sky is the limit”, and borrowing one is a lifesaver for the purse! Another moneysaver is making your own prom dress or having someone else make one for you. When choosing a prom dress consider these three things: Make sure the dress is com fortable so you will not end up feeling miserable. Make sure the dress is easy to move around in since you will be dancing a lot. Also, don’t wear a dress with scratchy material. This can be very irritating. Sonya Mabe, Susan Davis, Matoka Snuggs, and Beth Mabry enjoy the lunchtime sunshine. For This We Worked All Year? By SONYA MAULDIN Spring has finally arrived. The days are warm, the flowers are blooming, and the schdol day seems to drag on forever. Students are beginning to feel the urge to be outdoors and away from school. The Seniors at ASHS can sit back and enjoy them selves, while a dark cloud looms over everyone else. What is this cloud? EXAMS!! It is almost time to begin preparing for exams once again. Seniors are the only students at ASHS who are exempt from taking exams. No matter how good a student’s grades are, he must still take exams. This system does not seem d quite fair to the entire student body. If a student has an “A” average then he should be exempt from mid-term exams as well as end of the year exams. This would provide students with the motivation for making good grades. If someone can prove himself capable of “A’s” throughout each nine weeks then there is no reason for the student to have to take exams. In many schools, students with “C” or “B” averages are exempt from exams. Some are even exeriipt for perfect attendance or any number of different reasons. It seems l(^ical that if students felt that they would be rewarded, they would work harder toward better grades and good at tendance. Exemptions from exams may be the solution to the problem of getting students to be more alert and cooperative in class. It would give them a goal to strive for and it would reward them if they were successful. If this system were installed at ASHS then perhaps more students would make an effort to make Honor Roll or High Honor Roll. This would certainly be beneficial to our school and to the students themselves. If a dress is too short, try wearing ballet slippers. These are very popular and com fortable for dancing. They can also be dyed to match your dress. Before the night of the prom have a dress rehearsal. At this time think about your hairstyle so you won’t be pulling your hair out an hour before your date arrives. Also consider the necessary accessories such as your purse, jewelry, and shawl and any others. With these things in mind you will be more prepared for the night. Prom night is extremely ex pensive for the guy. So if you are a girl, why not consider helping your date out. Maybe pay your half for dinner or invite the date over for a romantic candle-Ut dinner. He just might enjoy this better. Also, if you are a guy and do not feel like renting an ex pensive tux for a night, wear a nice suit and you wiH look just as great! This will indeed help your budget. Care * Free Contest Congratulations Senior High! By participating in the Care * Free gum contest students have shown pride in the school. It is the kind of pride that results from hard work, determination, and true unity of purpose among students. Three hundred thousand gum wrappers and facsimiles were collected by ASHS students. This is an outstanding entry. Even if Senior High doesn’t win the Care * Free contest it has certainly won a contest of its own in gaining school par ticipation, spirit, and pride. Dreamboat Springs Leak One of the highlights of high school is the Junior-Senior prom. Even though almost everyone looks forward to this event, there is usually one major problem. What is the best way to ask the date of your dreams to go with you to this special dance? Three types of guys have particularly interesting techniques for getting dates to the prom. There are the per fectionists, the superjocks and the procrastinators. Tim, the perfectionist, goes through his little black book at least 25 times before finally selecting a possible date. He must take a shower, wash his hair, put on 5-day deodorant, use Listerine, blow his nose and spray the house with air freshener before he will even attempt the all important phone call to his date-to-be. After practicing, “Hi Kathy, this is Tim!” 57 times in front of the bathroom mirror he dials the phone and prays “she” answers the call (and the question.) But much to Tim’s despair. Moose, Kathy’s older brother, answers and threatens to kill him if he ever sees him again. Poor Tim ends up not going to the prom because of his blunder, and to hide froom Moose, he promptly joins the New Jersey school of Background Painting and Other Fine Arts. Mike, the overconfident Super jock, really doesn’t worry about getting a date to the prom because he is so good-looking (he thinks) that any girl would feel privileged to go with him. After 2 or 3 minutes of deep thought Mike decides to brighten some poor soul’s day by asking her to the dance. He drawls, “Listen toots, I know there’s really no need to ask since you’ll be ready any time I say, but what time should I pick you up for the prom? You know you’re really lucky. Not just everyone gets to go with a guy like me!” To this line Mike quickly gets a locker slammed in his face and the reply, “I’d rather die, no thanks!” Mike ends up with Tim in New Jersey. Last is Jeff, the procrastinator. About 24 hours before prom time he frantically begins calling every girl in the Senior High student directory. After 150 refusals he starts on the Junior High crowd. Hours later he has sprained all his fingers and the phone company is furious with him for tying up the lines, but he still hasn’t gotten a date. Jeff put off sending his ap plication for the School Background Painting in Jersey so he ends up sitting at home watching Starsky and Hutch on prom night. Girls, on the other hand, also have trouble. When they become Juniors, they too are allowed to ask dates to the Prom. Often lack of self-confidence is a problem. Gwen calls the man of her dreams and it sounds something like this: “Hi! Um ... do you ... I mean . . . would you . . , um . . . lend me your English notes? . . . Oh, right, I don’t know what made me think you were in my class. What about French? . . . Uh, Trig? I was afraid of that, (pause) Say, what size sneakers do you wear? Nope, too small for me, guess I’ll have to borrow someone else’s.” By this time, she is so flustered she has to hang up. Luckily, Mike left New Jersey phone number with her. The Full Moon Albemarle Senior High School Albemarle, N.C. 28001 Donna Kirk, Editor-In-Chief Brian Shaver, News Editor Jon Hill, Feature Editor Beverly Hatley, Sports Editor Down Lowder, Business Manager Tim Dwight, Art Editor Sharon Miller, Senior Staff STAFF Jim Andrew, Debbie Forlow, Dees Fort, Dale Ivey, Sonya Mauldin, Melissa McKeithen, Mike Parker, Sheila Simpson Mrs. Linda Morrow, Advisor The Full Moon Is published nine times during the school year by the journalism class of Albemarle Senior High and is printed by Press Printing Company of Albemarle.
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