Penny A. Pilzer

I knew Penny very well in high school. She lived in my neighborhood and her house was on my paper route. We never dated, but we double-dated frequently, and I always enjoyed her intelligence. We worked together on the high school newspaper. I am attaching copies of two articles that she wrote during the spring of her junior year. The articles give insight into some of the issues she faced at the time. To understand the articles, you need to know that our school, William A. Wirt High School, had been identified in the local press as a hotbed of drugs (marijuana) and free thinking. In fact, the police had searched our lockers without finding any drugs which was in fact somewhat surprising.