Booneville High School - Reveille Yearbook (Booneville, AR)

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Honor Roll and Top Ten make the impossible look EASY The perfect report card. While an impossible goal for most of us, there are those who consider it a necessary evil, either in an- ticipation of college, strict par- ents, or both. Since I plan to attend college, good grades are a necessity, said Sandy Wilson, honor student. And cheerlead- ing hasn't interfered that much. For many of us, good grades started slackening when we hit junior high and have been in a nose dive ever since. The pres- sures of after school jobs, athlet- ics events, and social activities lend themselves to the decline of our scholastic endeavors. For ex- ample, a total of seventeen sev- enth and eighth graders made the honor roll, while only 10 senior high students made it. My parents have a lot to do with my grades, said Lisa Lip- pard, the sole freshman honor student. But they don't pres- sure me to do well. Knowing the material helps me to keep up with my classes on top of athlet- ics, commented honor student Otto Fry. However, cheating and copying doesn't pay. Ap- parently keeping up pays, since college is also in Otto's plans for the future. Maintaining straight A's was not limited to these three people; twenty-seven students made the honor roll for the fall semester. Sophomores Ty Hampton and Michael Wiggins also made the honor roll along with juniors Brenda Tomlin and Martha VanAllen. Honor graduates Re- gina Garner (3.9) and Thomas Foy (3.8), and Jeff Ross (3.7) were the only seniors with straight A's Jeff Ross concentrates on trying to figure Heather Harris and Amanda Souther- out a page in accounting. land served as legislative pages for Sena- tor Bill Walters. 63

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Michael Wiggins devotes most of his time to studying. Spanish students Kelly McClendon and Lisa Lippard listen intently to catch a few words they understand. Pictured below is the top ten: front row: Regina Garner, Thomas Foy, Brad Mor- gan, back row: Shelia Maxwell, Gary Gray, Eric Jones, Charley Parnell, Billy Daniel, not pictured are Jeff Ross and Susan Miller. 62 You've got that right

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King and Queen Crowned On February 10, 1987 the an- nual King and Queen of Hearts pageant was held. The contestants, nominated from every class, try to raise the most money. The winners are announced at the last home senior boys girls basketball game. King Ray Erlinger collected $225 and Queen Dana Thompson gathered $365 for the FBLA, pageant sponsors. These two, along with the rest of the court, brought in $2008 for the club. King and Queen of Hearts, clockwise from left: Eric Siddons, Beth Love, Grant Hester, Deidra Frost, Jill El- more, Ray Erlinger, Dana Thomp- son, Jeff Rodatz, Kim Witt, Wesley Crenshaw, Patricia Minden, Matt Wester. Suspensions, death bring On June 17,1986, a young man named Len Bias had just been a number one draft choice of the Boston Celtics. On June 19, at 8:50 p.m. he was pro- nounced dead. The rea- son? Cocaine overdose. Here was a young man with the world at his fin- gertips. He would most likely be an NBA all-star. So why in the world did he play with cocaine? In itself, this has nothing to do with Booneville. But eventually drugs could become a problem in Booneville. What do our fellow stu- dents think of Len Bias? Drugs in sports to light Vance Gadbury thinks that “He was stupid to use coke in the first place. He was a good athlete with a lot of potential. This may sound kind of cruel, but I think that he deserved what he got. I just can't feel sorry for him - he knew the risks. We shouldn't feel sorry for Len Bias as much as we should feel sorry for American people's loss of another life to drugs. On December 21,1986, in Miami, Brian Bosworth held a special press con- ference. He and 20 other athletes had just been suspended from their respective bowl games after testing positive for steroids. Ok- lahoma's fallen star spent 35 minutes trying to de- fend himself. He went as far to say that steroids, unlike cocaine, aren't de- stroying society. Coach Doug Scheel says, I think that steroids are be- ing misused in athletics. I'm not saying steroid use is wrong, but chemical competition is. The pur- pose of athletics is to bring out a person's full potential. If an opposing player uses steroids, he'll have an unfair advantage over the player who doesn't use steroids. So the person who hadn't been using steroids has to use them to keep up. This is a chemical warfare. How can we keep athletes from overdosing on drugs such as cocaine, or cheat- ing other athletes by us- ing steroids? I think drug tests in ev- ery sport should be man- datory, stated Vance Gadbury. Testing prob- ably would help - but would it stop the prob- lem? Probably not. If drug use is to stop, the players themselves will have to stop. We hope they make the right decision. 64 You've got that right