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THE FULL MOON
October 28,1977
Halloween Traditions:
Customs Become Costumes
The lunchroom workers are busy preparing meals for the students.
Chow Down At ASHS
Halloween is a day for witches,
ghosts, goblins, and kids playing
“trick or treat.” But all these
traditions didn’t just happen.
They started many years ago.
Known as a hallowed or holy
evening, Halloween takes place
on the eve of All Saint’s Day,
November 1. It was thought to be
the day when ghoCvS and goblins
came out to cause harm to
people.
People also believed that cats
were sacred. They thought cats
had once been humans who had
been changed as a punishment
for an evil deed. These beliefs are
the origin of the ideas of the
By; SONYA MAULDIN
witches and black cats associated
with Halloween.
The Jack-0-Lantern comes
from the Irish. A man named
Jack v/as unable to enter heaven
because of miserliness and
couldn’t enter hell because of a
practical joke he had played on
the devil. He, therefore, had to
walk the earth with his lantern
until judgement day.
Today children dress in
costumes and “trick or treat” the
neighbors. This was not always
the case. In the 19th century the
belief was that “little people” or
“fairies” played pranks on
Halloween. This led boys to carry
out practical jokes which were
not always harmless. In the later
years communities formed pa
rades, “trick or treating”, and
other Halloween activities to stop
the practical jokes.
An autumn festival held by the
Druids, an order of priests, was
an occasion of feasting and
harvesting. This is where the
custom of using leaves, corn
stalks, and pumpkins as
decorations originated.
Now each year on October 31st
as Halloween is celebrated
remember how it all began and
maybe it will take on a new
meaning.
By: JAN HILL
Each day the lunchroom
workers are preparing well
balanced meals for ap
proximately 330 students. Where
does the food come from? Who
works in the cafeteria? Who
plans our menu?
Nannie Sinclair is the cafeteria
manager. Other lunchroom
workers are Shirley Talbert,
Hermena Ford, Vernie Tucker,
Ann Shankle, Lila Stallings, and
Ethel Little. Each one has her
own duties which she works very
hard to accomplish, including
baking homemade rolls and
desserts, making salads and
taking up lunch money. Their
duties also include keeping the
lunchrooms and kitchen clean.
The school lunch menu is
planned each month by Mrs.
Pickier. After she decides on the
menu, Nannie Sinclair estimates
the poundage of food needed. This
enables her to know how much of
a certain product to order. Next
Mrs. Pickier makes an order of
groceries which are sent to dif
ferent companies. Food is
received from the following;
Aberdeen Packing Company,
Goodnight, Biggers Brothers,
Lance, Long Meadow, (Borden),
and often other places.
A great deal of hard work is
demanded of the cafeteria
workers. They spent much time
planning menus and trying to
make many students happy. It is
very disappointing to them when
they hear students complain as
they file through the lunchline.
In the cafeteria a student may
choose for himself the meal he
prefers. Usually a selection of
two or more class A lunches is
offered. The cooks want to offer a
choice of meals so they can
please most of the students.
Providing a variety of food and
still having something which
appeals to everybody is a hard
task. The cafeteria ladies,
however, try to do this.
Preparing for hundreds of
students is not easy, so take that
into consideration and be happy
with your meal.
■Hand Me The Comics, Will Yar
Quickly tying his shoe, a
harried teen-ager rushes to the
breakfast table, slides his
brimming bowlful of ‘Morning
Scrunchies’ aside, and deftly
opens the rain-drenched
newspaper. Squinting to read the
black ink set against the
background of soggy grey
newsprint, he smiles. He
chuckles. Soon he is howling with
laughter. His sceptical younger
sister looks at her brother with an
expression of hollow dispair. In a
mournful voice nearly hoarse
from screaming the words.
Hollow Spirit Speaks
By DEBBIE FARLOW
resident ghost prepared three little previews for
all those who dare to wander to
Zelda, the
reporter from the hereafter,
expects that the spooks will have
a fruitful Halloween this season.
When asked why, she replied
that, “A new sport, called
‘parking’ is drawing the teens to
an isolated spot called Booger
Hollow, making the ghosts happy
to finally have someone to
scare.” She thinks it’s unfair to
just spring all these terrible
creatures on the kids without
warning. She has graciously
Elevate Your Mind
By DONNA KIRK
“Get yourself together . . . Elevate your mind! Express yourself!
Give it all you’ve got, hey! Give it all you’ve got.” Most Senior High
students are familiar with these popular football cheers, but how
many realize that these words can apply to the future as well as to
sports events.
A good place to “Get yourself together” is at College Day. This is
an opportunity to talk to the representatives from several different
colleges and get your name on their mailing lists, find out about the
academic requirements (including grades and SAT scores), scholar
ships and financial aid for the schools you are interested in attending.
Often brochures are available about each school, or there are post
cards to mail in to order a college catalog. Get it together at College
Day and prepare to “Elevate your mind! ” in the future.
“Express yourself! ” School life is only a small aspect of one’s per
sonality. By reading the daily newspaper, having hobbies, par
ticipating in sports and the arts, or traveling, a student can become a
more ‘well-rounded^ individual. A knowledgeable person who ex
presses himself well can make a lasting impression on a college ad
missions interviewer or a future employer. Get practice in self ex
pression by participating in class discussions, or, take a course in
building vocabulary or public speaking.
“Give it all you’ve got!” A person who puts forth a sincere effort
earns the respect of everyone around him. When looking toward the
future, whether college or career, keep in mind that determination
and ambition are important success factors. Work at being the very
best you can be and “Give it all the self expression you’ve got by
elevating your mind! ”
Booger Hollow.
When one gets to this place,
expect first to see the devil’s
eyes. These appear from
nowhere in the black of night and
shine like two red flames burst
ing continuously, penetrating all,
and searching for some unfortu
nate prey.
Those who aren’t frightened
away by this can next expect to
see the ghost in the well by the
road. He waits for his victims in
the depths of the cold earth,
moaning his sorrow of a life lost.
He gets lonely down there and is
just aching to drag someone to
the bottom of this Hades. Beware
girls, he has a peculiar liking for
ladies’ fingers.
And those who still remain, can
drive a few yards to the bridge
and wait. Don’t mind the troll
underneath, he’s just looking for
souls. When it’s least expected,
giant bodiless hands will lift the
car up and hurl it toward the
twilight to exist no more. Do not
panic, Zelda will not let you
perish if at all possible.
All the ghosts and goblins hope
to see all of the brave, daring
young fools who risk their lives at
Booger Hollow. Zelda suggests
that on Halloween, all would do
best to remain at Badin Lake
where the only threat is that of
drowning in the submarine races.
For more horrifying ad
ventures concerning Booger
Hollow, consult ASHS’ two
resident experts, Eric Crisco and
Victor Karam.
By; TIM DWIGHT
“HURRY UP, STUPID!”, she
sobs, “If I get one more tardy
they’ll expel me (hie).” But this
jovial teen-ager shrugs his
sister’s cries off with a curt “Who
Cares?” He is a fan of Funky
Winkerbean, Ziggy, Peanuts,
Herman, Wizard of Id, Hi and
Lois, Tank McNamara, Beetle
Bailey, and especially
Doonesbury. The expelled sister
of a comic fanatic cries.
If you asked this so-named
comic fanatic what his favorite
comic strip is, Doonesbury would
undoubtedly become the main
subject of conversation for the
next few days. Called the most
consistently funny cartoon
published today, it has attracted
a devoted legion of followers
(sometimes referred to as “the
readers”) and an equally
adamant group who write hate
mail. One reason for this peculiar
popularity is that its characters
live in a more varied world than
in other comic strips. For
example. Peanuts’ characters
seem confined by their innate
inability to age. Tank McNamara
uses only jokes from the sports
realm, and Funky Winkerbean,
although much less stifled than
the rest, revolves around high
school. Possibly because
Doonesbury characters live in a
world uncannily similar to our
own, character development has
an intensity rarely found in comic
strips.
Mike Doonesbury, B.D., Mark
Slackmeyer, Zonker Harris,
Joanie Caucus and the un
countable others make up a
versatile community of in
dividuals. Mike Doonesbury
wants “a nice, good, wholesome,
heterosexual relationship” but
can never get a date. B.D., a
consistently conservative
quarterback who wears his
helmet on and off the field,
volunteered to fight in Vietnam
so he could get out of writing a
term paper. Mark Slackmeyer, a
discouraged student radical who
has continuing trouble with his
middle-class parents, now
bartends for class reunions,
announces at football games, and
interviews guests on his WBBY
radio show. Zonker Harris, a
hippie who plays football, bothers
B.D. by disrupting' the huddles
with everything from marijuana
to Panamanian history lessons.
Joanie Caucus, once just a
runaway housewife on the road to
Cleveland, finished law school
and now works for the Ethics
Committee searching out
dishonest congressmen.
Anything can happen (and
much does) in a Doonesbury car
toon. In Vietnam, B.D. gets lost
and becomes captured by a Viet
Cong terrorist named Phred who
promptly gets them both lost
again. Meanwhile, Mark and
Mike motorcycle across the
country searching for America
(and looking for girls). While
stopping at the Republican
National Convention, they, to
their surprise, find Zonker Harris
there with his mother, the only
delegate for McCloskey. Later in
their trip, they meet Joanie
Caucus, a rebelling housewife,
and when they return home to
Walden Commune she stays on.
This is Doonesbury history.
Doonesbury has been around
since 1968, when it started in the
Yale Daily News as a college
cartoon strip. Since syndication,
frequent additional characters
have contributed to its continuous
growth and development. Garry
Trudeau (the writer/artist) and
his strip have gained much fame
and critical acclaim, oc
casionally as cover stories for
Rolling Stone magazine and
frequently by having strips
banned for things newspaper
editors think are unacceptable.
To everyone except those
editors, the fun of Doonesbury is
in its satire. Its humor is ex
tremely topical and to enjoy
much of it a knowledge of current
events is mandatory. Many of the
cartoons play completely on con
temporary headlines. Some of the
recent ones have Zonker inter
rupting a football huddle to ex
plain the history of the Panama
Canal problem, Duane Delacourt
working as Secretary of Symbol
ism in the Carter Administra
tion, the Son of Arnold and Mary
Leiberman threatening to kill if
Jimmy Breslin will not talk to
him, and Jackie Onassis’ settle
ment lawyer guesting on WBBY’s
“Profiles on Parade.”
Doonesbury effectively cap
tures the mood of the part of the
country that enjoys it. Because of
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