Booneville High School - Reveille Yearbook (Booneville, AR)

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Mrs. Wirt, librarian, explains the Dewey Decimal System to Angela Chase. Sighing with relief, Mr. Bill Prewett leans against the wall after another school day. . . . alone in a crowd Teachers Teachers, do you have the feeling that you are alone in a crowd? In many ways, you are. All the publicity about the conditions of education today puts additional pres- sure on teachers. In addi- tion, Arkansas fell to 49th place in national rankings on per-pupil expenditures and teacher pay. It kind of makes teachers wonder if they chose the right profession. At first, Mr. McDonald commented, I wasn't doing too bad fi- nancially. Now, I'm having trouble making ends meet on our low salary. Although the income is needed, most teachers didn't choose this profession for the money. They enjoy be- ing involved with their stu- dents. Mrs. Love replied, Even though my salary is important for me and my family, I really enjoy work- ing and helping my stu- dents. We're like one big family, which makes us work better as a team be- cause we can really commu- nicate. When our teachers were planning their futures in college, why did they choose teaching? When teaching was chosen as a major in college, at that time, they were after an interesting job and a good pay. Mr. Miller answered, I always wanted to be a teacher just to help students learn and to make a good living. Well, at least one of my plans worked out. Santa Claus (Mr. Casada) helps Mr. Patterson raise money for the new uniforms at the band concert. 114 We're in this together

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Brian Simpson Raina Smith Tonya Smith Amanda Southerland Shawn Standridge Angie Stanford Charles Stracener Kay Terry Shari Terry Jeff Thompson Kelly Tillery David Turley William Underwood Scott Walker Tommy Watson Sandra Way John Weaver Johnny West Is your locker a shocker? Welcome to University of Arkansas course, Lockers 101. I am your professor, Dr. Lockemup. There are basically three types of lockers: (1) the neat locker (Lockerus boringus); (2) the messy locker (Lockerus commonus); (3) the shocker locker (Lockerus shock- erus). The neat locker is charac- terized by an orderly stack- ing of books on their ends from left to right, in the same order as the classes of the day, with very little loose paper or other dis- tractions. Neat lockers are owned mainly by boring people — the 'brains' are typical owners. These lock- ers are the safest.'' The messy lockers can be organized as efficiently as the neat locker, but it has lots of loose papers, pic- tures, or stickers decorat- ing the inside. Lockerus commonus is the most commonly found of the species, and crosses all cliques in the normal school. Although they can occasionally spill a paper or two, they are fairly safe beasts.'' This brings us to our final locker type: the shocker. The shocker lacks internal organization. Books are piled, with loose papers, stickers, pictures, mirrors, and notebooks inter- spersed among them. The shocker is typically owned by either an athlete, ban- die, or yearbook staffer — although anyone can own one. There are dangers associ- ated with shockers, espe- cially if the owner has a top locker. The haphazardly stuffed box dumps its con- tents ruthlessly on those below — usually someone about a foot taller and fifty pounds heavier. In our next session we will go on a field trip to a local high school, to see each type first-hand. The books you will need for my class are ... Is your locker a shocker 113

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Ruth Austin Gene Bailey David Beckham Janet Broaddrick Steve Brown Bruce Casada Cathy Catlett Ted Cook Faye Crawley Harry Culps June Culps D.J. George Libby Goddard Goldie Hall Lana Hampton Jerry Hocott Rebecca Knight Joan Love Mary McAnally Jerry McDonald John McGowan Carl Miller Jean Myers Pat Pace Barbara Parnell Bob Patterson Sharon Phelps Bill Prewett Pat Prewett Pete Prewett Missie Rasnick Doug Scheel Jan Scheel Don Smith Doylene Smith Iva Turley C.R. Underwood Rosemary Underwood Webster Watts Brenda Wilkinson Diana Wilins Earlene Wirt Faculty 115