Parkview High School - Spirit Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Kenneth Ward Phyllis Washington Yolanda Washington Delma Watson Marcus Watson Truman Watson Lissa Watts Rachel Wayne Reancc Webb Lynard Wesson Yoyce West Tracey Wymouth Sylvia Wheeler Carlette White John Whitehead Rod Whitt Manthia Wilburd Eric Wilken Anthony Williams Douglas Williams Eileen Williams James Williams Michael Williams Sherry Williams Willie Williams Zina Williams Cloretta Willis Kelli Willits .Iacquelin Wilson Ronnie Wilson 126!For friends Seniors

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V A Status change Seniors renamed frosh aking decisions became banal N for seniors even before the 1 summer was over. Many were met with a rash of mail from colleges following the arrival of PSAT scores from their junior year. It was then that the decision-making started, seeming never to end. The majority of students chose lin-state colleges, mainly because of ithe expense of out-of-state tuition. pther deciding factors were size, availability of major, athletic program and location. Filling out applications was a bigger headache than taking the ACT, SAT and achievement tests. Seniors juggled their class workloads in order to provide time to write essays to impress major universities. . Applying for financial aid was just ts much trouble. Some colleges 'equired that the application packet ne notarized. Those competing for lonor scholarships, most of which vere not based on need, sweated hrough interviews, essays, exams ind other competitions, prayed for a ittle luck to help them along. Through campus visits, exams, unanswered mail, seniors looked orward to the day that they would be inown as college students. The only vroblem involved seemed to be egressing to the status of fresh- men. Taking BS Ill Q , f ., ., sage li, N ww - REID u,- t 1 t .434 y 'A'b'Na, Bonnie Tucker Denice Tucker Lisa Turley Noel Turner Darrell Vanderburg Ann Van Pelt Shery Vinson Michael Walker Ricky Walker John Walters J? a

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Moving nut illy .Ioel wrote a song about it. Teens mortified in front of older friends who didn't have a curfew dreamed about it until they came of age. But when it came to facing moving out, knees turned to jelly. Getting pushed out of the inest for the first time brought ghastly scenes to mind. After living with parents for up to eighteen years. depending upon isomeone had become a way of life. lEven for those students with jobs. parents provided loans for those lean ,weeks in which entire paychecks were blown. There was a horrid realization that our parsimonious tendencies would have to surface in order for us to survive. Moving out, even if only to a college dorm, brought loads of responsibilities. It was a shocking revelation when we found that household items that we had taken for granted all these years had to be 'purchased. Toothpaste didn't sprout in the bathroom cabinet. And for that Imatter, can openers didn't magically appear in drawers. ' Money didn't exactly fall from the skies like manna from heaven, either. I Facing moving out loomed omin- ously before us, even though it ,seemed during that Advanced Bio- logy or calculus exam that we would never graduate. It was something that :was abstract, to be dealt with later, iafter we had finished growing up. Tonya Wilson Brenda Windham James Withers Deborah Wolfe Belinda Womack David Woodall Sandi Woodward David Wright Carol Yarborough Ronald Young Seniors!127