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THE FULL MOON
June 1987
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Features
Editor: Elizabeth Murray
FASHION
for the year
By ANGELA COOK and BETH NEEL
This school year has turned out to be a
managerie of fashion. We have seen many
fads start, peak, and end at this school dur
ing the year. It is now time to reflect on
what was “HOT” in fashion in the past 10
months.
Starting in August many of the ladies
donned their father’s underwear and wore
them to school. These boxer shorts are not
the most flattering of clothing but they
surely are comfortable. These boxers are
not just your basic light blue or white, but
they now come with wild prints and colors.
The next focal point of fashion is the ever
present BANANA CLIP. This hair ac
cessory has the approximate size and
shape of a banana, hence the name banana
clip. Banana clips come in an assortment
of colors; some even have pearls and
rhinestones. Many ladies include the clip
in their every day wardrobe. Oh, and let’s
not forget the BOWS. These little or big
numbers were worn with everything from
shorts to prom dresses.
It seems this year that anything denim
was in. If it was denim, faded, acid wash
ed, or bleached, everyone wore it. Every
thing from girl’s mini skirts to boys cut-up
faded-out Levis walked our hallways.
Hasn’t Chuck Taylor (no kin to Chip)
made a few bucks this year off of his col
ored high top sneakers? Speaking of shoes,
metallics hit it big this year too, gold or
silver, take your pick.
This, by no means, covers all of this
year’s “hot” fads, like that brief football
fad of shaving one’s head and cutting de
signs on the side. The year of 1986-87 has
been a landmark year in fashion. Thanks
to all the 600students that made it possi
ble. Without you where would we be? . . .
NAKED! (Ha, Ha.)
Tera models a popular fad — boxers!
Bows adorned the pony tails of many
ASH females during 1987.
Oveda demonstrates the versatility of
the banana clip.
Looking Back
With graduation here, seniors are
thinking about college and jobs, but
one thing we all think about are the
experiences we’ve had in high
school. Football games, homecom
ing, basketball games, the prom,
and friendships are memories we
will carry with us forever.
As we look all the way back to our
freshman year we remember think
ing how big and grown-up the se
niors looked. Now that we’re the se
niors, it doesn’t seem like we’re as
old as they were. It doesn’t seem like
we’re old enough to be going to col
lege or starting our own career.
Whether we’re ready or not, the
time has come for us to step out on
our own. We’ll be meeting new
friends and doing new things that
someday will also be a part of our
memories. Our memories here at
ASHS are not all pleasant, but we
must remember that our ex
periences here helped us grow. As
we go our separate ways, we will al
ways remember ASHS. Until our
paths cross again . . .
Editor-in-Chief
Managing Editor
FULL MOON
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Jeni Hedrick — Editor-in-chief Michele Dennis — Managing Editor
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Ben Jolly — Sports Editor Elizabeth Murray — Features Editor
Tera Taylor, Beth Goodman — Entertainment/Creative Editors
Beth Neel, Mariel Baucom — Junior Editors
Tony Burns — Circulation Manager Mrs. Susan Hathcock — Advisor
Senior Staff
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Junior Staff
Cindy Brewer, Angela Cook, Melynee Morgan
Hangin’ Out On The Weekend
By ELIZABETH MURRAY
Remember when you and your friends
all met at Burger King to decide the plans
for the evening? When everybody came
you stood around in the parking lot for a
while making lots of noise and talking to
different people? When you were ready to
leave, you drove through to ask for a large
Mountain Dew and directions to K Mart?
Remember when you decided to go to the
movies one night but made the mistake of
driving through the Sky City parking lot,
which consequently made you late for the
movie, but it didn’t matter because
Susanne got you in free anyway?
Remember when there wasn’t anything
else to do so you all piled in someone’s car
to go steal street signs? Of course, you got
down many more poles than you did signs,
but running from the police into someone’s
driveway always enlightened the evening
a bit.
Remember when you turned into Sky
City to park and talk to the crowd, and a
cop pulled you just for the heck of it? He
flashed his light in your car and asked you
if you had anything better to do, and you
said, “No sir, not really.”
Finally, remember when you didn’t see
anyone talking at Burger King or “jump
ing bumps” at Sky City, so everyone went
over to one person’s house to crash for the
night?
These were the best of times, but
certainly not the worst of times. They are
the times that we leave behind for our
underclassmen to carry on and the times
that we will never forget. Despite the way
we’ve talked about Albemarle, it wasn’t so
bad.
Farewell to Germany
Last July, as I was preparing to leave America, I was quite uncertain of why I had de
cided to spend the next year in a foreign land. Often I was even sure that I had made a big
mistake. Now that my year in Germany is coming to an end, I have had some time to re
flect on my stay here and I have realized how rewarding this experience has been. I would
now like to express some of the advantages and rewards of my year as an exchange stu
dent.
One advantage is the opportunity to learn a new language by living in the country in
which it is spoken. By speaking, reading, hearing, and thinking German, I have learned
more in one year than I could have learned in ten years in a class in school. Learning a lan
guage is also a gift that remains with you for your whole life.
Another plus to living in a foreign land is that you are able to experience a new culture.
You are not just an observer of the new culture, but you are asked to live in and be a part of
it. Your view comes without biases that come with learning about a foreign country in your
native land.
Spending a year away from home gives you the opportunity to travel and see the world
thus having a better understanding of how the whole world fits and works together. Al
though I have spent the majority of my year in West Germany, I have been able also to
travel to Denmark, East Germany, England, Austria, and the Soviet Union. I have had the
chance to meet and speak with citizens from South Africa, India, Sweden, Finland, Bel
gium, New Zealand, Brazil, and Czechoslovakia, who were traveling as tourists or living
as exchange students in Germany. I was able to get an idea of life in other countries and
see how it compares with life in America. I learned that the American way is not the only
way.
A year as an exchange student not only gives you a chance to learn about other coun
tries, but it also gives you a good chance to learn about your own native land. I have met
with American students from almost all fifty states. For one year, each of us has been able
to observe our own country without directly being a part of it, thus having a clearer and
more critical view. Hearing about your native country through foreign press and from
foreign citizens gives you a new perspective of your home. By explaining and telling about
your native land to foreign citizens, you realize many parts of it that you have taken for
granted while living there.
Probably, though, the most rewarding experience is the opportunity to grow up and
find yourself. I have probably grown up more and learned more about myself in one year
here than I have any previous year. Away from home you learn to be independent and take
care of yourself. This new independence places a new freedom in your hands, but you
alone must learn to handle this new freedom without causing trouble for you and your host
family. As you mature and overcome the problems that arise in living in a new culture,
you also learn about yourself. When you are on your own, you are able to find out who you
really are as an individual not just a member of a group.
Now, I would certainly be lieing if I told you that my year in Germany has only been
filled with good experience and rewards because there have been plenty of problems in ad
justing to a new land, family, language, and culture. But with every problem there has
also been a solution and finding these has provided me with knowledge and experiences
that will help me throughout the rest of my life. The good times have strongly outweighed
the bad and I know that the memories of this year will remain with me forever. I can say
without a doubt that if I had the chance to decide again whether or not to spend my junior
year abroad, my decision would remain the same.
Before I conclude this last article, I would like to send congratulations to all of this
year’s seniors who are coming to the end of one of their important life experiences. I send
all of the Class of 1987 best wishes as they leave high school and move on into the adult
world. They have accomplished much in finishing high school, but the journey is not yet
over.
Foreign Correspondent,
Andrew R. Wines