Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Jean Weise Mike Welbes Jonna Welsh Melinda Whatley Diana Wheeler Donna Wildey Nancy Wilkins Mary Wilkinson Lanny Wilhoite W' A John Williams Kathy Wilpitz Richard Wood Debbie Woodyard Doug Wyatt David Yadrin 62 parent seniors 'asf David Yero Aracely Yuga arents were an inspiration and a stumbling block, They could make our lives a pleasure or a pain by caring too much and then not seeming to care about us at all. We have all heard the line I want to give you all the things I never had. We had to be great pianists, because our parents never could take lessons. or all-star athletes because they never were able to play sports. We were expected to goto college because they never had the money. Our parents seemed to want to live through us. We were good and ready to live our own lives. Parents nagged us about grades and set curfews that always seemed too early. With one breath they would gripe because we weren't cleaning our plates, and with the next, tell us we should get out on our own, find a job, and accept more responsibility around the house, And noisey?! . . . Everytime we walked in the door we heard, Where have you been? What did you do? Who were you with? Remember the night you tinally landed a date with Mr. Right. Then, when he finally came to the door to get you, your father invited him in and gave him the Third Degree while you sat there and quietly bit off all your fingernails. Parents were really a pain in the YQS sometimes. But we didn't always make life a bed ot roses tor them either. We began to suspect that it was true when they told us, Someday you'lI thank me for this. Parents wanted their children to be healthy, wealthy. and wise. The closer we came to graduation and leaving home, the more we realized how much our parents had done for us. Cutting our mothers apron strings wasn't going to be as much fun as we had imagined. Remember all those trips they made to football games and Northcross Mall, and how they always came through in a pinch. Like the time you needed a new dress for homecoming, and the one you wanted was way over your budget. Or when your senior ring came in and you had forgotten to save thirty dollars to pay it off. Even though they seemed to want to dampen our good times with curfews and restrictions, our parents made most ot the good times possible. ln spite ol our ditterences ol opinions, we realized that our parents always wanted what was best for us.

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A Taste of Tra ed 1 Kim Guyer set her sights on Olympic ice skating com- petition. Then came a series of operations on her ankle. She had spirit, patience and friends like Martin Aleman to see her through. 2 5'6 guard Junior Davis gets blocked on a lay-up. Junior overcame his size limitations with flashy speed and hustle, 3 After raising and caring for an animal, we grieved when it came time to sell it. Charlie Chapman leads his cow off to slaughter. 4 Even the toughest athletes got hurt. David Taveirne grimaces with pain after receiving a rib injury. 34 i 552 ig -4 l 1 1 i 1

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who 5, ti 1 lo -Q if iii fr ii y .A .I 4 r x X IX X 1 Families like Melvin and Mary Beth Hoffman's meant continuity tor Lanier. Beth Hoffman, class ol '80, follows Jo!-Xnn, class ot '76, and John, class of 74. 2 Throughout the year. Vikette parents poured out time. money, late night rides, patience and love to their daughters. At the Parent Appreciation ban- quet. they passed our gift blankets to graduating Vikettes. 3 Freshman sports didn't draw big crowds, but parents were there every game with spirit and encouragement. Tom Perry, lather of Mike Perry, helps the freshman cheerleaders with a halftime cheer. 4 Parents were often interested in the day to day events in our lives. Ann Chambers describes the horrors of Vikette initiation to her sympathetic mother. parents 63