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on november 22, 1975, miss jane crosby was 
crowned the new miss yonahian by miss marty 
chapman, last year's queen, miss eileen briggs was 
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second place honors, miss crosby represented the 
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and her court 




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jane crosby 
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egg eating contest 

contestants gerald cook, jim eggslinger, and bill 
boyle competed to see who could eat the most 
boiled eggs, jim eggslinger won by consuming 
seven eggs in ten minutes, the contest was spon- 
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the j.s. green society, proceeds went to the sga. 



international dinner 
good food & interesting dancing 




Saturday, february 7, 1976, 
after the homecoming ban- 
quet, jim esslinger and hank 
and rex gallops presented a 
program of blue grass and 
country music, the show was 
open to anyone that wanted to 
listen, and many did just that, 
along with a little dancing, 
clapping, and yelling. 




miss debbie holloway was selected as the 75-76 homecoming queen of piedmont college, 
debbie was the senior representative of the court, miss margaret mccleskey was the junior rep- 
resentative, "care" hughes was the sophomore representative, and debbie brewster was the 
freshman representative, the entire week of homecoming events were culmininated in a long 
awaited dance that Saturday night. 



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the president's message of 76 . . . 

our youthful united states of america is celebrating her bi- 
centennial in 1976 and piedmont college is celebrating her 
triumphant entrance into the second decade of fully 
accredited academic services to eager and able young peo- 
ple of applachia, the nation, and the world, on december 10, 
1975, the southern association of colleges and schools voted 
to continue the membership of piedmont college and thereby 
reaffirm her status as a fully accredited four year, liberal arts 
co-educational college, validated to award the bachelor of 
arts and the bachelor of science degrees, acceptable for ad- 
mission to the graduate schools of all universities. 

kin to this academic orctiid was the reaffirmed certification 
of our teacher training programs by the georgia state depart- 
ment of education, the calibre and character of our gradu- 
ates continues to measure up to piedmont college's long- 
standing tradition of preparing her students for excellence in 
classroom leadership, even last year, in spite of economic 
difficulties throughout the nation, all of our graduates in ele- 
mentary and secondary education found teaching positions. 

another landmark of academic excellence on our campus 
was established this year by the organization and initiation of 
a chapter of alpha chi, a national honor society for juniors 
and seniors, faculty leadership for this new development was 
provided by dr. mary griggs, dean Jodie I. burton, and dr. 
marion c. hodge. 

piedmont college was founded in 1897 by the reverend 
Charles c. spence, a methodist "circuit rider" and native of 
north georgia. one year later the combination of elementary, 
high school, and college responsibilities in demorest were 
offered to the american missionary association of the 
congregational churches, they accepted the challenging 
offer, leaving "brother" spence at liberty to concentrate his 
concerns for christian education on young harris college 
"across the mountain." 

the elementary grades and high school classes were taken 
over by the state of georgia as public schools in 1927. in 
1936 football was discontinued at piedmont college 
"because the doctors' bills got to be more than the gate 
receipts." 

in 1948, cartoonist ripley described piedmont college as 
the only four-year liberal arts college in america that did not 
have a single building which was designed as a college facil- 
ity, a two-story resort hotel was the women's dorm and 
college dining room, a small two-story building purchased 
from the army housed the business administration classes, a 
two-story mule barn was the classroom building, an old 
frame house with a leaky roof was the business office and the 
president's headquarters. 

at that time every building was mortgaged to the hilt, the 
college was $167,000 in debt, there was not even enough 
credit to buy crackers for soup in October 1949. 

in spite of these discouraging circumstances, the board of 
trustees felt that there was a continuing need and opportu- 
nity for christian service to the young people of the immedi- 
ate area and to the youth of supporting congregational 
churches everywhere, therefore they voted unaimously in 
June 1949 to make one more all' out effort to keep the college 
open and to announce registration as usual for September, 
they also voted for the third time an invitation to one of their 
own members of the board of trustees, James e. waiter, to 
serve as the ninth president of piedmont college, within two 
weeks, the secretary of the missions council of the congrega- 
tional christian churches with an office in boston, mas- 
sachusetts, wrote his letter of acceptance and started to 
make plans for moving mrs. waiter and their two sons to the 
little green house on campus, occupied by professor and 
mrs. silas roberts until his death in december of '48. 

gathering sufficient gift income to operate the college was 
the major challenge, everybody in town was eager to save 



the college, but few volunteered contributions, it became 
necessary for the novice president to borrow funds per- 
sonally, since there was no college credit at the bank, to 
meet the november '49 faculty payroll, he prayed hard and 
traveled extensively for the gifts necessary to keep the 
college in business, eventually we balanced the budget that 
first year, and every year since that historic 1949. praise the 
lord! 

accreditation, which means membership in the southern 
association of colleges and schools, was the overriding ob- 
jective and guideline from the start, every decision was made 
with an eye to the long-range necessity of bringing the 
college into academic fellowship and recognition with the 
best colleges and universities of the nation, the needs were 
multiple and the discouragements were many, in September 
1949 there was not a single member of the faculty with an 
earned doctorate degree, tuition income was less than half of 
the operating expenses, endowment funds were nil. buildings 
were all old and below par. but in spite of these handicaps, 
dedicated teachers prepared piedmont graduates thoroughly 
in the academic disciplines and in self-help work, "by their 
fruit . . . shall ye know" the little college that produced 
businessmen, nurses, school teachers, doctors, lawyers, 
ministers, and housewives that made good in the art of living. 

finding new faculty members with christian dedication and 
advanced degrees, gathering gifts to support our scholarship 
and work-aid programs for eager and diligent young people 
who need to work a major part of their way through college, 
soliciting funds for the annual purchases of new books for 
the library, gathering gifts for new buildings (a gym, an 
enlarged library, three dormatories, a science building, and a 
classroom building) and putting it all together were the sus- 
tained requirements and inner satisfactions of sixteen long 
years prior to accreditation, the sacrificial labors and gener- 
ous gifts of many friends went into our crucible of accredition 
in 1965. 

it was an exciting moment in december 1965 when i was 
able to telephone a beeper message of victory over wcon 
radio station by previous arrangement with two of our own 
graduates, bobby and John foster, from the meetings of the 
southern association in richmond, Virginia, it was beamed to 
the students and faculty of piedmont college and to all the 
people of northeast georgia. the good news came through a 
littel before three o'clock, later i learned that the regular 
radio program was interrupted with this special announce- 
ment from the president of piedmont college, over seventy 
percent of the teachers and principals in the area were our 
alumni and understandably eager for accreditation news, 
classes, study halls, and buses were all stopped to hear the 
good news, that "piedmont college is fully accredited." 

in december 1975, after ten more years of constant effort 
to upgrade every part of our program of quality education, 
the southern association of colleges and schools voted affir- 
matively on the reaffirmation of accreditation for piedmont 
college, every professor worked diligently on the self-study 
and every student cooperated in good spirit on this exhaus- 
tive project, all shared personally and together in this 
glorious celebration, what better way could there be for us to 
join in the bicentennial! our nation depends on the whole- 
some character and intelligent adventure of educated young 
people. 

"our fathers' god. to thee, 
author of liberty, 
to thee we sing; 
long may our land be bright 

with freedom's holy light; 
protect us by they might, 
great god, our king. " 

James e. waiter 



dean & registrar 




dr. jodie I. burton, dean 



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dr. John b. ayers, registrar 



mrs. linda roach, sec. to registrar 




mr. bob gregory 
recruitor and financial aid 




business office 



mrs. flois duckett, treasurer 
not pictured 



mr. Charles t. davis 
asst. to treasurer 




mr. daniel tomlin 

recruitor and alumni director 



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library staff 






mr. david pratt 
head librarian 



mrs. Virginia pierce, asst. to librarian 



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english 



dr. david I. greene 



dr. marion c. hodge, jr. 



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mathematics 



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mr. t. boyd moore, physics 



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social studies 



mr. david Simmons 



dr. ralph singer 



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dr. Joseph mundi, sociology 




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foreign 
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dr. c. lopez, Spanish 



mrs. sims, french 




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business 
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mr. jim esslinger 



dr. clarence r. duncan 





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dr. utley, elementary education 



dr. mary c. lane, education 




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physical 
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mr. doug lozel 
assistant baskebtall coach 



dr. o'neal cave 
athletic director 



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art & music 



mrs. rosaland howard, art 



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miss diane mize, art 



mr. waiter morgan, music 





maintenence 



norman baker and arnold burton 




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red anderson 



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bill boyle 



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dr. mckee, director of food services 



dining hall 



mrs. fry 
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dolores camp 

bobby canup 



bill childs 
carl colston 
terry dillard ( 
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richard klauber 
norma lawson 



hildafry 
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beverly gilstrap 
mitch hardy 



trent hicks 
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dennis hopkins 
rocky hopper 



willie hunter 
gary kesler 
barbara kimsey 
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linda mattison 

jane michell 

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cookie sheppard 
tequila sipes 
gary smith 
david somers 



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dewitt todd 
sara tollison 
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women's society on campus 

jean brock 

marty chapman 

anne crocker 

sue coker 

karen blackwell 

denise spencer 



mary collins 

karen stroud 

Janice pridgen 

dot Stephens 

alesia Williams 

debbie bellamy 

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mitch black 
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Christy bullard 

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sue coker 
barry cook 
darrell cook 
gerald cook 



fred crane 
jane crosby 
tac Cunningham 
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pam dodd 
anita dooley 
terry graham 
james hall 



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valerie hope 

mike howard 

Joyce isbell 



cynthia jones 

debra lanier 

mahlon lautzenhiser 

tommy mcallister 



garry macewen 

martha mannikko 

Oliver martin 

mike moore 



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johnny reno 
keith reynolds 



jan rogers 
Stanley rudeseal 
sylvia sanders 
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pete sorrentino 
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ihe end of another school year. 

You know, ever since we first opened our doors, back in 1911, we've 
been watching the young people of Toccoa go through school and on to other 
things. Like college. And work. 

And we've grown up with them all. We've helped young people continue 
their education with loans to get them through those college years. And we've 
helped young families get started and helped them plan for the future. Helped 
them with things like personalized checks and a safe place to keep their money. 
And car loans. And loans for their first homes. 

We're proud of the part we've played. 

So come in and see us . . . and let us help 
you with your banking needs. 

We like helping young people ... at the 
Bank of Toccoa. 




Bank of Toccoa 



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freshman 



deborah bellamy 

henry bentley 

ann benzanson 

karen blackwell 



cary bogue 

gaye bonds 

phillip bowen 

bob brackett 



debbie brewster 

florence brooks 

keith bryant 

dan bullock 




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mike burel 
robert burrell 
eric buzzell 
sherry cabe 



randy caudell 
david chumbly 
mike coker 
mardella collins 




inda cook 
loy cook 
ronnie cornett 
steve cox 



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zz tucker 



joe crocker \ 

ronnie crumley ' "'  
kathy dameron 
terry dorrow 



joe dixon 

larry dunn 

bo farmer 

eunice ferguson 




John cragg 









jeff hajek 



jill hallford 



J. v .'. v .-. * .'. v A v.t  



callie fetzer 
betty free 
mary galloway 
vance galloway 



wes garrison 
ben glaze 
enrique gonzalez 
John grytten 




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janet harbert 



windy harper 





ledeana, are you eating again? 




i don't believe you! 



harold henderson 




steve henry 



steve herring 




k t* 




barry huff 




bruce irvin 





terry jackson 



ronnie jordon 




sweet and innocent 



b-o-l-o-g-n-a 



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marcia kisor 



90 



ricky kisor 

vincent kriz 

bobby langston 

pak lok leung 



teresa lloyd 

larry long 

gordon longsberry 

judy lovell 



torn lowe 

james mccart 

carol mcconnell 

james mcentire 



kevin mcgilton 

Stanley mackison 

carol martin 

david martin 



ken mason 

george miller 

randy morris 

doris moss 




lane newberry 
don Oliver 
margaret Oliver 
michael owen 




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chow time 



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mike ragsdale 

tony robinson 

david rogers 

marie rumsey 





eddie steedly 
raymond steinbrecher 
dorothy Stephens 
steve stites 



karen stroud 
victor suen 
lew swezy 
jerry tanksley 



mike tench 
mary thomason 
randy tucker 
thomas walker 



gail walls 
Chris whitworth 
ledeana whitworth 
alesia Williams 



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van Williams 
mark wright 




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Cornelia;& Demorest 

Where banking is 
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Coloration 




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Service, Inc. 
Clarkesville, Georgia 



754-2121 




Clarkesville Branch 

Home Federal 

Savings and Loan 

Association 

102 S. Washington Street- 
Call us for all your savings and loan 
needs . . . 

754-2189 



Congratulations 
Seniors 



Ramseys Food Center 



Quality Built Homes 

& 

Restoration 

Jason Construction Co 



Clarkesville, Georgia 
754-4929 754-9255 




Compliments 
of 



C & S Builders 

Mt. Airy, Georgia 
778-4884 



Because 
The 
Girl 
With The Cow 
Was Coming 

Dr. & Mrs. Hodge 




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student government association 



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skip watkins, pres. 

ken edwards, vice pres. 

heidi parson, sec. 

sue coker, treas. 



sr. rep., jim dover 
jr. rep., eileen briggs 
soph, rep., garry macewen 
fresh, rep., debbie brewster 




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s g a e 



delores batson, eileen briggs, jean brock, Charles bryant, delores camp, linda 
carroll, sue coker, jeanie collins, darrell cook, anne crocker, mary galloway, 
julia gasaway, david greer, debbie holloway, dessie irvin, chris lund, jenny lund, 
garry macewen, jane mitchell, hiedi parson, ronnie parson, Janice pridgen, mike 
roberts, george sanders, sylvia sanders, cookie sheppard, tequila sipes, dennis 
taylor, pat watson, merry westberry, alesia Williams, curtis Williams, lynn 
Williams, mike zobel, mark wright 



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denise spencer, debbie holloway, Janice pridgen, pak lueng, 
victor suen, don bennett, mike zobel, richard klauber, mark 
wright, ron richardson, darrell cook 



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piedmont college 
drama troupe 




margaret mccleskey 


janice pridgen 


mary galloway 


david brady 


mary collins 


carol martin 


tony scott 


terry jackson 


denise spencer 


jinx hailey 


jane sevier 


judith creech 


debbie holloway 


Charley bryant 



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102 




Spanish honor society 



John steffel, david sommers, Judith creech, dr. caridad lopez (advisor), anne crocker, torn 
leskuski, sam alien, lewis bailey, linda carroll, mike coker, mar'y galloway, debbie hooper, mary 
collins, carol martin, david martin, tony scott, tac Cunningham, neal cave, jane sevier, margaret 
mccleskey, kieth reynolds, randy tucker, tommy walker, mitch hardy 



chess club 




byron purcell, alien pritchett, 
david sommers, eric buzzell, dr. 
hodge (advisor), not pictured: 
sara wise, ed dark, pak leung, 
daryl lewis, sam alien, rex gal- 
lops, steve stites, pat elements 



103 



checkmate 




chico gonzalez, John steffel, daryl lewis 
tony robinson, gerald cook, ed page, wendell wilson 



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theta 



zeta 



phi 



society 







denise spenser, alesia Williams, sue coker, debbie brewster, Janice pridgen, 
karen blackwell, dot Stephens, debbie bellamy, marty chapman, anne 
crocker, karen stroud, mary collins, jean brock 




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gamma chi society 



florence brooks, jane sevier, doris moss, marcia kisor, merry west- 
berry, mary galloway, brenda wadleigh, kathy dameron, valerie 
hope, Stephanie olah 



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protropians society 



ed dark, victor suen, peter j. Steinberg, darrell cook, John 
cragg, pak lueng, Charles bryant, henry bently, ron 
richardson 




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the protropians would like to thank bill owens for the use of his 1930 a model. 



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dorm 
councils 



women's council 

pam dodd 

brenda wadliegh 

marty chapman 

jane sevier 

Stephanie olah 





men s counci 

wendell wilson 
skip watkins 
enrique gonzalez 
kieth reynolds 



alpha 



chi 




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brenda saxon, chris lund, jane mitchell, roy neal, sara wise, dr. hodge, jeannie collins, lyle 
watkins, jean brock, roger sheppard, julia gasaway, Virginia haley, miss griggs, tiki sipes, 
pat watson 



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piedmont college 



band 




victor suen, darrel cook, david brady, gerald 
cook, rex gallops, mike sneed, waiter morgan, 
dot Stevens, beverly gilstrap, kieth bryant, cindy 
sneed, bill scott, byron purcell 



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piedmont college 
choir 



debbie holloway 


gerald cook 


janice pridgen 


bob brackett 


karen blackwell 


victor suen 


mark wright 


david brady 


valerie hope 


ed dark 


judith creech 


ron richardson 


darrell cook 


rex gallops 


waiter morgan 


, director 



science 



club 



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ed page, eileen briggs, jane sevier, lewis bailey, anne crocker, daryl lewis, steve orr, byron purcell, 
dr. lopez and dr. iloff (advisors), rachel tench, pak leung, Stanley ansley, kieth reynolds, John der- 
rick, john steffel, jesse english, michael thompson, ray stienbrecher, larry turner, richard klauber, 
chris lund, johnny reno, sam alien, phillip batson, rhonda smith, ralph bellamy, terry dillard, bill 
owens 



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the owl 



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janice pridgen chris lund, editor phillip bowen 



 




John steffel, marty chapman, tony robinson, karen 
blackwell, marcia kisor, denise spencer  annual 
staff 



the 



yonahian 



dr. green, dr. hodge, advisors 



people 



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ross henderson, company rep. and photographer 




jim dover, photographer 
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how about doing it this way 



4 a.m. and still going 

my god, i'm an editor . . . what first . . . what's a signature ... a ladder diagram . . . what the heck is a ladder diagram . . . staff meeting 
thursday ... ad selling . . . pictures . . . what's a layout . . . deadline . . . headaches . . . more pictures . . . it's only 3 a.m. ... do we 
really have to do this . . . why am i doing this to myself . . . Christmas break . . .relax!. . . another (3)#$%<t deadline . . . no pictures . . .a 
week late . . . sell more ads . . . get another bottle of "correctype" . . . make layouts . . . get clubshots . . . ross is coming tomorrow . . . 
how about a green cigar . . . is the coffee ready . . . more asprin, please . . . more deadlines . . . memo: call plant . . . thanks sandra . . . 
sell more ads . . . we're trying but nobody wants to buy any . . . friday nights in 202, don't come out till monday . . . pass the scaleograph 
. . . what the@+$%&*t! is a scaleograph . . . you broke our last ruler! . . . who put the asprin in my coke . . . alright, who bit the pencil in 
two. . . no heat . . .no curtains. . . no help . . .10-4. . . well i'll be *$%&*t@?!$%/*@ we're through! enjoy 



coro y danzantes de espanolcon 
aprecio para la dr. caradad lopez 



dr. caradad lopez is one of the teachers that is constantly aware of 
the quality of the education of the students and at the same time for 
the improvement of this college. 

with her work and incentive for action, she not only teaches with the 
customs and ideas of the people, but she also brings our college to 
the attention of the entire state through television shows and news- 
paper articles. 



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Sherwood's 
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Cornelia 
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back row: coach o'neal cave, larry turner, harold "buck" henderson, trent hicks, michel hardy, 
kenny edwards, roger stokes, coach doug lozel. front row: pete stienburg, bobby "scooby" lang- 
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ricky kisor tac Cunningham 



barry cook ronnie crumley 



coach doug lozel wes garrison 



phil white james mcentire 



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marcia kisor, captain 



cheerleaders 76 



karen blackwell 




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kevin mcgilton, david chumley, gary smith, ricky savage, gary kesler, torn mcallister, coach ryder, 
eddie steedly, windy harper, doug bailey, steve stites, coach Simmons, randy tucker, alien 
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mac macewen, eric buzzell, pat elements 
david somers, dr. singer (coach) 




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team 1 

lane newberry 
Steve herring 
david martin 
windy harper 
marion hodge 
chris lund 



team 2 

clarence duncan 

david rogers 

terry dillard 

ed dark 

kevin mcgilton 

John doe 

bill smally 




team 3 

terry graham 

pete sorrentino 

david chumley 

dale smith 

kieth reynolds 

ronnie Jordan 




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team 4 
bill childs 
daryl lewis 
gary keesler 
eric buzzell 
boogie adams 
randy tucker 




team 5 

mac macewen 
John bryant 
pete stienberg 



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every year piedmont college publishes a yearbook, in fact, every college, 
high school, and many elementary schools publish a yearbook, because oik 
the tremendous amount of material and number of styles used, some 
duplication is unavoidable. 






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as editor of the '76 yonahian, i've put my best work into making this book 
well worth keeping for your future, if there is anything between these covers 
you disagree with, please remember that the job of editor was open to any- 
one who wanted it. 










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i don't know who wrote that immortal line, "no man is 
an island . . .", but they are right, this yearbook 
couldn't have been put together without the help and 
understanding of many of my friends and even a few 
of my enemies, those of you that helped me know 
who you are, i hope, i'm not going to list names 
because i'd probably forget somebody, and if it's one 
thing i don't need, it's somebody else after me. 



i hope you enjoy it. 



John I. steffel 
editor 



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