Aldine High School - Round Up Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Below: Contacts often slip at all of the wrong Left: I don't like having to wear braces now. It would times and freshman Sandra Vela puts her con- Below: Sporting a very personalized T-shirt, fresh- have been alright if I had gotten them several years tact back in place while waiting in the lunch rnan Scott Day wears his Tin Grins Are ln shirt as ago, senior Vernon Roberts said. line. AQGIN wwe file ,, is 1 a reminder of the 22 months he wore braces. x ,- x X u ? . fl-In '72 4 Mia Left: I don't like to wear glasses because I feel Above: Smiling proudly intothe camera, freshman conscious. l'd rather wear contacts, l'm vain, sen- Traci McAdoo is not ashamed of her braces. ior Cindy Matthews said. She has it all. She wears braces too,

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Tin Grins, Fake Eyes Braces and contacts were no longer a big deal. Everywhere you turned there seemed to be a flash of metal or someone blinking con- stantly trying to get used to contacts. Sophomore Greg Goodman said, I hate wearing braces because you can't kiss good. People who wore braces said it really didn't bother them when peo- ple looked at their mouths because it seemed like everyone had them. They also said that they kept in mind that their teeth would be straight soon. Most students who wore braces were especially conscious of their braces after meals because they wor- ried about food being stuck in them. Students who wore braces weren't ridiculed as much as they would have been a few years ago but the nick- names and sayings still popular were tin grin, metal mouth, oh, the brightness, I didn't know you wore braces, and railroad tracks. Students who wore contacts had fewer complaints than those who wore braces. In fact they were in favor of contacts 100 percent. junior Angela Whitton said, Wearing contacts is better than wearing glasses because when you wear glasses you have to take them off to go swimming, and you can't see all of the good looking guys. Freshman Mark Frost said, Con- tacts are better than glasses because when you're out in the rain your glasses get all spotted. People who wore contacts said they didn't mind because no one Could tell they were wearing them. .s' 4 ,Q 4, is ,sl Above: Like any other person who wears a retainer, senior Vicki Timmins removes hers before eating lunch. fo., U ,.fagfarg1. '- , , 14459 www. 'w'f'f'i'5 id? -.5235 . xr' . 9 sv ff? s 'iss iw A V, . w i , ms. t new 4? My ' . Q'

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,fav ,f ,frm iw bc 6 Q3 llilix il YE, lif tl Fi J Q VV Ffa KF Vx l it ltr? ti? S , f Almost anyone wearing Wrangler ltT!!WS, Country and western shirts and a name laelt could be considered a lciciker. Sophomore Gerald Morton said, l think everyone is turning kieker nowa- days hefause everyone else is doing it, and they lust want to get in the cjrowd and he with their friends. the life-long, home-spun country stue dents preferred to be called cowboy rather than kicker because they said they ielt kickers were just drugstore Cox r,, boys, an imitation ofthe real thing, Senior Donna Auippa said, A Cow- poy is a person who dresses country all ot' the time, goes danein', raises Cain eyery day of the week, and raises and works with animals. Redneck, boots, hats, Slcoal, danCin', pickup trucks, country musict, cowgirls and Cowboys were all a part of the western scene. l-ayorite kicker phrases were redneck 1 heiter, you o'head and 'cowgirls do it hotter. Students said they enjoyed lneing kiekers hefause they liked to wear tight Wrangler blue jeans, go dan- cin' with friends, dress Casual, party and dip Skoal. Every Friday and Saturday night there was always at least one hangout filled with Aldine students, whether kicker o I' not. Kicker dancin' was for everyone. The most popular kicker hangouts fo I' c'uttin' a rug were the Western Swing, 'lin lrlall, Wells Fargo, Polish Home and Bill Mraz Songs that left the tables almost com pletely empty and the dance floo l' totally packed were the Cotton Eyed ine, Shottish, polka's and slow dances. Senior Linda jenkins said, Eyer'yon likes todo the Cotton Eyed loe pecaus it is iust plain good ol' country musicifl Q G Right. Pickup trucks arent lust for cowboys any- inore, Donna Auippa is as proud as any t cnwlnoyt at her truck with her personalized art on the laaflc 'w inrlotw A, K 6 -.L iriv- -Q ,mu K .4 5- t ltr ,t-i H-.. I J E a Y V aj sgciiii his Q . I. -. .-r ... ., 1 . x slt i FQ -: ti rr i il f X