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

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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

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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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Hamming It Up Do you wont to be in pictures? Do you wont to be a star? If that were the questions asked to the typical ham. the answer-would be a definite YES! They were always there, those hams, right out in front of every picture, every roll of film, their arms outstretched like an airplane's wings. Those hams were the first in the crowd to detect the wandering lens of the camera with their uncanny radar. Always the first to leap forward armed with a full set of pearly whites. When they saw a camera, they forgot rules, conventions, friends. Romans and countrymen as they tried to hog any Hash. Photographer Jim Gray was baffled by the bizarre behavior exhibited whenever he pulled out his camera. They go wild. he said in amazement. You'd think that they were going to be all over the front page. I just wish that they would have more respect for what I'm trying to do instead of trying to block a good picture. When it comes to being in a picture. people divide themselves into two categories. There are the hams who will jump rivers to be front and center, and the camera-shy who avoid the click of the lens like the plague. I admit I'm a ham. confessed Anna Moon. It's nothing to be ashamed of — almost everybody is one. There are some people who hate getting their pictures taken — I'm just not one of them. Even though I'm pretty obvious about PEEK A BOO. Robert Blankenship and Darren Caillouct grin toothily for the camera as Stuart Williams edges between their heads. GET A GRIP. Ms. Vallce takes hold to Pat Vartuli. junior, during first hour chemistry, after he did not complete his homework assignment. 18 — Hamming It Up