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

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an 41 Left: Football players rise to the ner-asion when the eheerleaders start throwing out small souxenir foolhalls during a pep rally. Below: At the end of the Mat-Arthur pep rally. choir members Buster johnson. Troy Truss:-ll. Marla Heinz, Carol Lowe, Karla Timm and Marsha Norris sing the school prayer. They also sang a song on the morning announeements using the 0iler's fight song tune with new fighting Mustang lpries. L , Above: The Pump Squad. symbolized by a plun- ger. was formed this year to promote spirit. Fresh- man memher Patrieia Mewhirter dresses lo shov. her spirit and stops in the hail to laik to junior Denise Jaeger. dressed in blue for the oeeasion. Left: While playing in the Mustang Band. sopho- more Sam Cooper and junior Mark Stephenson wear he-addresses showing their enthusiasm during Spirit Week. Homeeomingfspirit l

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'FK t 5 9 ft- -irq. f'XN lm-mn1ingfSpirit but spirit doesn't Faced with problems of showing spirit without posters in all the halls, yells after roll check and dressing up, the juniors received the Pegasus award on the basis of a door decoration con- test sponsored by the Student Council. During Spirit Week students were encouraged to wear blue and white, however, few students actually got involved. The sophomores won the spirit stick for the MacArthur game. People just don't care. They donlt want to do anythingf, senior Debra Phillips said about the spirit apathy. Traditionally Spirit Week, the week of the MacArthur game, had been plagued with destruction to both schools, but the vandalism didn't occur this year. Playing the game at the new Thorne Stadium, a more neutral site than the stadium at Aldine Senior High, proba- bly helped control vandalism, Mr. Lewis said. We worked to de-emphasize the MacArthur gamef' Mr. Lewis said. We should display the same spirit toward all the schools we're playing. Spirit Week should be every week, he said. Left: Although injured while on duly at the Nimitz gamv. senior Loretta Kirsch could not be stopped from doing what she could at the MacArthur pep rally.

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16 Inflation The value of a dollar - not much I remember when Skoal cost 450' a can, now it costs 850 a can, Mark Topping said. Mark wasn't a grandfa- ther reminiscing about the good old days but a high school senior com- menting on the increased cost of living during the last few years. The majority of students com- plained about increased gas and cloth- ing costs. There are longer intervals between buying things, senior Cindy Clements said. Going out was limited. 1 have to spend more money on gasoline instead of fun activities. senior Marlin West said. Dollar values had plunged dramati- cally during the decade to the point that a dollar in 1970 was worth about 50 cents in 1979. A combination of devaluation and increased interest rates. rising to 20 per cent this year. put a strain on families and teenagers. In a random survey of AHS stu- dents, the majority of students working made 252.90-33.50 per hour. Students indicated they spent 310-320 on enter- tainment and another 3510-3515 on gas- oline a week. Fewer students had been applying for work programs such as Distributive Education. vocational counselor Hattie Lee said. The decline was probably because of student's opportunities to attend ACE and the flexibility allowed for work hours there. she said. Cooperative Vocational Academic Education QCVAEJ programs were not included in thc decline. She said she thought the more relaxed requirements for these classes was probably the cause. Many students were not as inter- ested in their school work as they were in their own jobs. 1 go to work because I hate going to school, junior Bradley Pilkington said. Bradley gave up athletics to get into DE. The majority of students that d0n't get their work in on time complain about not having time to do it because of such late work hours. English teacher Beverly Creeney said. When jobs were not part of the school curric- ulum, grades often suffered. 'fy S' ,Aw 4. Iwi I. l' , gl! Zi E . t t 9 t Above: Filling up his self-made S350 custom-designed sis as he pays 816.50 for gas. truck, senior Mike Henry feels the sting of the energy cri-