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'Excessive' absences
cause change
in
day
of prom
That Friday was just another school day,
w1th classes scheduled as usual. But Friday,
March
30, 1979,
was not a typical school
day. It was the day of the Jun1or-Senior Prom
and JUSt the • excuse that 74 7 students
n eded to avoid com10g to school. It was also
the excuse needed by
120
students who d1d
come to school to have a parent come to
the school to check them out before the end
of the day.
" Excessive absences" on prom day,
;;ccord1ng to Mr. Truett Thorn, prom sponsor,
resulted 1n th1s year's prom being scheduled
on a Saturday mght, Mr. Thorn said that
400
couples had attended the previous year.
Those young people were d1rectly responsible
for approximately
$70,000
10 expenditures 10
the commumty, he said. Among the costs
were t1ckets, formals. tuxedo rentals, d10ner,
pictures, gasoline.
refreshments,
and
flowers.
The band Jett was selected by a student
comm1ttee in September to perform at this
year's prom, which featured a southern
theme.
It
IS
an early spnng evening, balloons
dance mystically from the ceiling. and the
band plays on . . . and on . . . and on . . .
as the trad1t1onal Jumor-Senior prom goes
on.
ABOVE: To help make a decis1on for just "the nght'' prom dress. Oebb1e Henson adjusts
and models vanous formals pnor to the March 30 event. LEFT: B1ll Rob1nson saves Alhson
Bennen·s balloons to be used for decoratiOn 1n the Convention Center.
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