Lyman High School - Eagles Flight Yearbook (Lyman, WY)

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1 ,J Q Break'em in. Although a rural area, many Lyman children do not get to ride horses. Elementary children are given short tenn rides under the supervision of Junior Rod Hewitt and Senior Kellee Eyre. Award time. During the annual Parent-Member banquet, FFA Advisor Rex Hamner presents certificates as FFA President Angie Sawyer emcees the program. Firstborn. During spring lambing season, FFA students bring problem ewes to the ag shop in case they need help. Sophomores Pete Collins and Cory Powers introduce the new wet baby to its mother. Advisor Rex llamner stresses breeding programs to the FFA members as opposed to buying market animals to feed out. More members have sheep projects than any other specie of livestock. Cowboy Christmas. Holiday times bring an FFA skit to the school assembly. Senior Tom Tippcts, Juniors Jamie Schmidt, Angie Sawyer, Eric Sharp and Senior Rodney Hewitt participate. -CEE? 75

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STHUTTING THEIH STUFF Hours of practice gives team four minutes in the spotlight silversprayedacross the I liked when the crowd cheered. Even if we didn't know the drill that well, it made us feel better and then the drill came off better. Juli Tippets Drill team. Back row: Lisia Schmidt, Tracy Prather, Shellie Hortin, Misty Heltz, Juli Tippets. Second row: Advisor Marilyn Charles, Barbara Haloomb, Amy Pena, Bridget Cox, Melanie Cottrell, Vonda Chamberlain, Front row: Patti Hicks, Adesa Cagel, Carrie Covolo, Mindy Rollins. floor like a wave with its undertow of blue. The echo of the crashing crests sounded as arms-one by one took their starting positions. A second look revealed the Lyman High School drill team. Serving as drill mistress Junior Juli Tippets had the respon- sibilities of delegating assignments, keeping people in order, and taking control of practices. It also meant while practicing a drill she counted the beat to keep everyone together and on step. At practices we usually started off with 10 to 15 minutes warming up. Then we practiced or made up a drill. After about 20 minutes we would take a break then continue practicing. Rehearsals didn't always go the same. Sometimes we got sidetracked or were in silly moods, noted Tippets. Tippets added, I liked when the crowd cheered. Even if we didn't know the drill that well, it made us feel better and then the drill came off better. I could tell half way through a performance if it was good or if it was a failure because of what the crowd did. Lisia Schmidt said, Most people thought drill team was no big deal. We needed more support and more school spirit. If they would have understood how hard it really was, maybe we would have had that support. The entire team had the responsibility of making up drills. Tippets, Patti Hicks, and Schmidt usually made up the drills, but everyone was encouraged to make one up and teach it to the team. The complicated process of making a 4-5 minute drill was overcome by using ideas they had, ones from camp and previous years. Before a performance the team would go through the drill in their minds while lis- tening to the music, stretch out and pray. We would also get the feel of the music, go through rough spots, and try to get everyone excited. It helped to encourage everybody-tell them we would do great, Schmidt added. My favorite part of being on the drill team was performing. By the time we performed, I was sick of the music and that was our reward-getting it over with, said Hicks. Schmidt added, My favorite part of being on the team was that I loved to dance. I loved to run out in front of the crowd and show them our stuff. A weight requirement was put on each of the drill team members. I liked the weight requirement. If everyone looks basically the same it made us as a whole look better, Hicks said. Schmidt noted, I liked the weight requirement. It kept us from getting overweight and improved our looks on the floor. Most of the girls didn't have to worry about their weight, they just had to main- tain it by cutting down on all the little extras like pop and sweets. For the team being as young as it was we had a good season. The age of the girls really didn't matter. It's the quality that counts, Schmidt said. Jessica Dunn -- g Clubs I Drill Team