Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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Shawn Meyers and Don Freeman pause for a moment to ... ? oddballs. (Oddballs because they’re each doing their own thing) Almost all aren’t talking, aren’t working, and aren’t doing much of anything. Some chew gum, shoot papers, comb their hair twenty times, apply make-up, talk to teachers, draw on the table . . . When the cafeteria isn’t a study hall, it’s a, you guessed it, a cafeteria! Be- lieve it or not, when it is a cafeteria, not everyone uses it to eat. Sometimes, Ellen Williams and Paula Sedalk ex- change smiles during studyhall. It looks like Bill Esterly has got some serious studying to do for next period. if people are involved in a good juicy story, they stay at the table the whole period just to hear the rest. The Dirty Jokers have a habit of doing that. Also, you may find more people study- ing during lunch than study hall. That will never be explained. And don’t we all love the person that brings their locker with them to lunch? Amidst biol- ogy book and social studies project, they eat, usually by themselves, there’s no room for anybody else! After good ole lunch, the cafete- ria resumes, or at least tries, to be a study hall. But by the end of the day, our cafeteria has been through a lot. Eight long periods and no rest. Maybe after the wrestlers are done practicing in it, it can rest. It had better, it’s going to have an- other long day tomorrow . . . Cafeteria 25

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The Versitile Room W. Our Cafeteria hen you step into the cafe- teria during the first three periods you might find yourself checking to see if you’re in the right room. In- stead of seeing a room quietly wait- ing for lunch to begin, you see (and hear) the loudest site of, you guessed it, a study hall! It’s quite interesting to walk through the cafeteria during a so- called study hall. So-called because out of every fifty kids, four are studying. And those four are study- ing only because they spent their first study hall talking and they have a test the next period. The things the other forty-six kids are doing is also quite interesting. Ten kids are sitting at a table trying to hide their card game from the teacher. They’re ones who have no books, aren t talking, but are staring at each other and are sitting on their hands. Personally 1 think the teacher must be dumb not to realize what they are doing. How many people can act like that, and still look nor- The next ten kids arc k, iust p J(a illle a d Jon‘ Berrafa » don’t a«, but talk during their lunch. 24 Student Life auction if you watch them for a wtt They kind of yell and scream wh they are done, and jump around uni they swap with another person. It tool like fun! The next twenty kids are doing win teachers call “socializing”. Actually it’s just plain gossip . . • “Did-you- hear-what-Jack-did-with-Jill-last- night?”, is a typical line you might hear. Some guys, instead of gossip- ing, (they do that during basketball practice), turn to dirty jokes. Now, we have all the students ex- cept six. In those six we get tbs

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Let’s Hear It for Pep Rallies If you ask a typical Joe student what the most exciting special event that happens during school is, he wi answer, “Pep Rallies!” Pep rallies are events that happen to install enthusiasm in the student body. It’s also the only time the whole school is together, all at once. There are many different occasions during which we have pep rallies. We have pep rallies during Home- coming and winter weekend, moving-up day and introduction of winter sports. Each time we have one, it’s a special time for the school to get together to show their enthusiasm, courtesy and in- volvement with the activity being pre- sented. The major part of a pep rally is the class yells. They’re included to show each other their class spirit, and who has the most. It seems that whatever The football cheerleaders lead the Seniors to winning the class yell. Mr. Arcaro sparks the cheers for the in- troduction of the winter sports. year it is, the seniors always win. Some may think it’s fixed, but many believe the reason the seniors win is because they want to show to the other classes that being seniors is number one and it’s their only year to prove it. It’s fun to listen to the students participating. The sopho- mores are the best because it seems that they all wait for each other to start, so by the time it’s the end of their cheer, they’re the loudest. The juniors are the loudest in the begin- ning, but then they seem to get tired, so they all quit, except a few devoted students. The seniors are loud at the beginning, middle and end. They’ve had enough practice 26 Student Life