Barbe High School - Les Memoires Yearbook (Lake Charles, LA)

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GENIUS AT WORK. Senior Stephanie Fontenot visualizes the poster she is about to create for the Wildcat game. ALI. WORK ANI) NO PLAY? Senior Tonya Sanders takes a break from cleaning up and has a few laughs. 16 — Poster Parties

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SPIRITED SENIORS. From left. Knie Herr. Dcninc Fontenot. Kim Sugg, and Mary Ellen Marshall cheer for the Bucs to be 81. THE MIST-ERIOUS INGREDIENTS. The varsity football players help Mrs. Hebert stir her secret ingredient into her famous gator gumbo. PEP RALLIES That Something Extra (con't.) Dietz, you're so fine.” I know, came the reply. Alesia Broussard sashayed, forward wearing cleats and a foot of extra padding. The sign on her jersey read, Don't Squeeze the Sherman. Super Buc, John McGehee, and the Unknown Tor, alias Chris Owen, battled it out at the Sulphur pep rally. No one need ask who was the winner. The ultimate embarrassment for some of the football players came at the Lake Charles-Boston rally when members of the team played the Licorice-Kiss Contest. Pep rallies have always been on a higher plane because of the great record of our football teams. When the football team is having a good year you want to show some appreciation by showing them how much you support them. That's why we always have great pep rallies, maintained senior Barrette Brown. But football isn't the only sport to get the peppy look, basketball had its moments, too. The gym filled quickly as the student body steadily streamed in. The cheerleaders got the crowd on their feet with a constant chorus of cheers. Coach Costello, then, in-trod :ed his cagers saying They are only as good as they think they are. Barbe's fight song brought the pep rally to a crescendo and finally to a close. Like a football or basketball team, pep rallies have hills and valleys, but as long as that little something extra — the fans' loyalty remains, no height of enthusiasm is unreachable. — CART Pep Rallies — 15

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A SPLASHING DASH. Ai a 4 p.m. Octagon poster party Caroline Zama puts the finishing touches on a quarterfinals poster. Touch of Color Raising Spirits The quiet residential neighborhood soon lost its cloak of peace and quiet. A long car drove by others who parked on the street. Out of the cars came long rolls of paper that were soon strewn all over the driveway. In a short time teen-agers bent over the sheets of paper and got to work. Another official poster party had begun. Poster parties have good causes: to stimulate the football and basketball teams to victory, to promote election candidates, and to advertise around school. Classes and clubs get together to promote the school. All that is needed is rolls of paper from the American Press, some paint, a driveway to work on, and portions of the student body. Kerri Jacobi explained the art of making posters. When it was time for a game we decided what to put on the poster by using alliteration. That's using the first letters of words. When we played the Tors we had to think T — the Tors. We could get really creative with alliteration. One certain Octagon poster party stuck out in Michelle Terranova's mind. It was just a normal poster party. Then some of the guys. Craig Richardson, Danny Dyer, Southey Hayes, and David McF.lvccn started tossing a football around. It got thrown into the street and nearly hit some lady's car. She got really angry over it and called the police. So a policeman came over and told us to ’stop hurling missiles across the public way. However, most poster parties were uneventful as 'guests' quieted down and started concentrating on the delicate process of painting the perfect poster. Control, especially, was a top priority. Dripping paint on a clean poster was as taboo as refusing an invitation to the White House. Poster parties were tranquil, unlike other years when they were often inter-rupccd by the arrival of rival classes intent on destroying each other's work. As artwork, the product of poster parties would never grace the walls of the Metropolitan. But the point that a poster emphasized was worth a thousand words. — MARSHALL MOTHER NATURE CALLS. Junior Missy Brewer docs no« help clean up because of the old bathroom excuse. Poster Parties — 17