Word: pom-poms
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...long, respectful moments, and one got the feeling that the photo contained the apotheosis of youthful achievement. Then Hillary locked eyes with the girl and asked, "You've been a cheerleader for how long now?" "Four years," Stephanie said proudly. In the picture, she was going through her pom-pom paces for Binghamton High. "Four years," Hillary marveled...
...want to get the word out that we are not just some high school pom-pom squad with little girls running here and there," said Verdin. "Our members work hard, practice 8-10 hours each week and give their all in every performance...
...pillars of American civic righteousness are here: the YWCA choir, the Boy Scouts, the 4-H club, the church-sponsored floats, even the pom-pom girls strutting their stuff to the strains of Happy Days Are Here Again. It could, really, be any All-American small town putting on an Independence Day parade on any village green. Except that this truly is, in the strict anthropological sense, a village, and the green here is really, really green. And the girls are dressed in grass skirts, and so too are many of the boys, with sashes of flowers across...
...Hyde Parker, "but never with the bad kids." Her self-styled feminism was awakened early: she wanted to play basketball in high school but balked at the half-court games girls then had to play. At Purdue she ran for freshman-class treasurer and formed the Pep Girls, a pom-pom cheerleader squad that she directed with no nonsense. "At our meetings we didn't horse around," says former Pep Girl Barbara Little...
WHAT REAL GOOD could such a board-based organization actually do? At the very least, Friends could provide moral support for flagging schools. Unlike the pom-pom breed, though, Friends could ideally provide concrete aid to the entire school: academics, athletics, and other activities. More tangibly, Friends would contribute to South Plantation High in several crucial areas: hiking funding, improving teacher quality, and increasing teacher compensation...