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

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WE DID IT AGAIN. After winning the third playoff game against Lake Charles-Boston and clenching the district championship for the seventh straight year, the volleyball team broke out in wild cheering. Opening — 5

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 A Specific time and date couldn't be pinpointed. Anyway you figured, a plain or simple answer only explained it halfway. Maybe it was the feeling of being special that began to sparkle in the eyes of the assistant principal's students. Or the camaraderie that developed among too-close neighbors in over stuffed rooms. Then there was the pride, unmistakable in the voices of faculty members who had sacrificed, coped, and were feeling better for it. The feeling peaked, creeped and sneaked its way into every face and facet of campus life. Then it snowballed. Before the eyes of an unbelieving community, the team ranked last in pre-season predictions reeled off one victory after another till the ultimate win was theirs — the 4-AAAA District Football Championship. Coachless and penniless, baseball players and their parents held an organizational rally October 18 and lined out fund raisers to net the required $4000 to reinstate the ole ballgame. Five weeks, one street drive, a hotdog and cake sale, and two raffles later, they dusted off home plate and someone yelled, Play Ball!” The student councils got the fever, too. Changing the method of election to generate more participation, the groups spurred a renewal of student body interest. A crowded fun filled Homecoming week was the result. We had found our pot of gold. It couldn't be put in the bank or buy back what had been lost. But it sustained us and raised us to a level of determination no defeat would destroy. We were going to be better than best.” There was nothing halfway about it. SPACE CASE. Homecoming Week's Bizarre Day was one filled with wild plaids, tough gang members, and of course those uniquely unusual punk rockers. Dressing was limited only by one's imagination and courage. Kim Crater, junior, lets her real personality shine on the senior's dress up day. MIXED EMOTIONS. Report card day, dreaded by some, anticipated by others, arrives on time regardless. Most students are forced to live with butterflies in their stomachs on this controversial day, some nraying desperately for honor roll while others would kill for a D.'' Damon Crycr and Todd Cooley, juniors, compare their grades they earned the first six weeks during homeroom period. 4-----Opening

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barbc had been the new kid on the block in the school system. It was 14 years old but the student body had never been put to the test. Growing pains were forgotten as everyone realized that it was time to get moving and shape up. It seemed students forgot how to do things half-heartedly. To the Max was added to every adjective, action, and reaction. Window painting contests and poster parties resulted in displaying a kaleidoscope of renewed spirit and color. Fashion was everyone's passion as students tried on parachute pants and Flashdance shirts. They took off in their Members Only jackets to cruise the beach or pig out at Taco Bell. The weather seemed to catch the spirit, too. Students prayed for a touch of nippy air to make the usual tropical Christmas a bit more like Bing Crosby's white one. Jack Frost went overboard with a record breaking temperature of 9 degrees. By spring the students' moods were as bright as the leaves. But they were green no more. Somewhere between August 29 and May 29 those untested, untried youngsters grew into determined teenagers. They were on the right track, heading every which way but down. GETTING IT OUT IN THE OPEN. The monotony of the classroom needs interrupting at times. A few of Ms. Gwen Lancon's second hour students take a break from the French II drills and exercises to breathe some fresh air and parlcr in francais. THE WONDER OF IT ALL. The varsity basketball team is about to pull ahead of East Beauregard as the fans rise to their feet in anticipation, (inset picture) 6 — Student Life