OPEN UP your locker. rfr or a Harding Academy student , lockers provided an outlet for displaying personal differences. On any given day, you could walk through the halls, randomly open any locker, and find anything from a neatly decorated locker to a disaster that could only be labeled as garbage. The most obvious difference in lockers was the exterior color. At the beginning of each year, one of the most common comments heard was "I hope I get a blue or yellow locker. Those red ones are just too ... I don't know, but I had one last year , and it was really sick." After the initial shock of discovering that the locker you were assigned really was red, the next consideration for social club members was how their locker sign would look on a red background. After careful deliberation , most decided that not only could they live with a red locker, but in time, they could learn to enjoy it with the right decorations. Decorations. The most common form of decorating lockers was putting pictures on the inside of the locker door. Banquet pictures, snapshots of close friends and relatives, and colorful postcards were found on most locker doors, along with mini-posters of movie and rock stars. Another way of not only decorating a locker but also keeping it clean was building a shelf in the locker, thus enabling the owner to have two levels of usable space. The most important function of a locker was not to store one's books, but to provide a type of horne-base to rely on during each day. Because of this, lockers took on the personality of the owner. By the end of the year, even red lockers were appreciated and loved. 1lit - -- - Introduction 293
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