Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Good as gold ny sludenl passing by lhe audiforium on roule To classes began 'ro calch lhe lever, The ICT mums on display. sludenl council members pushing balloons, ficlcels and homecoming queen nominalions and volinq added To sludenls' symplorns and Those who parlicipaled in lhe weelc long lesfivilies were lhe mos? allecled. Homecoming dale mysferies increased lhe amounl of whispering in The halls and al lunch fables. Ouffils had lo be purchased. :fa sri if .5 XL Complefe wifh Tiger glasses and a Spring Woods baseball cap. lresl-ie man solleyball coach Susan Shop- faw and assistant head loofball coach Tommy Cool: demorisfrafe fheir skill as cheerleaders by per- lcrrclng Ge' On The Good Fool. Giving her all 'o each cheer senior Chem? Mzfflcf-3 :ics 1' 'he Ihdfx' c, 'als ng .a s gr -i erccuraqerrerf made D. sec 'nec for 'he N:-'e-conf ' Dr a I2 l-l: 'eg:rc 'Q

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during your liielime, you can'+ 'rake il wilh you when you die. Drama sludenls lound Themselves porlraying a wide range of characlers. One such characler was Penny Sycamore, played by senior Becky Peylon. Sycamore is a playwrighl who discovered her profession because a delivery man lell a lypewriler wilh her lhal was mean? lor someone else, according 'ro Peylon. Anolher zany characler was porlrayed by sophomore George Harris who described his characfer, Paul Sycamore, as a man who ac+s, lhinks and sleeps fireworks. Making The produclion look aulhenlic had ils diilicullies. We had a hard lime gelling 'rhe coslumes because 'rhe era when The play is sei is very popular, senior Rochelle Redfield said. Redfield worked on coslumes for The forlies play. There were no clolhes al lhrifl shops because people had already gollen whal was Ignoring freshman Mickey Gallips demands lo pay 60 years ol over- due income fax. senior Becky Pey- fon, works on anolher crazy play while conferring wilh her many sfulled animals al her desk. There. We could have gollen whal we needed al Saks Fiflh Avenue or Lord and Taylor, bul lhal was a lillle our ol our price range. Slaging The play provided much worry for Those involved. Someone lell some spaghelli our over The weekend which was supposed To be used and by Monday il was prelly sickening, junior Benii l-loliiield said who worked on props for The produclion. The hardesl scene lo slage, according lo Holifield, was The scene in Keeping senior Laurie Monfgom- ery's praclice dance sleps in check, senior Eric Garreff looks on while unaware, iunior Lisa Bochicchio, sleeps off her parl as a drunken acfress. To help publicize fhe drama depart- menl's producfion of You Can'+ Take ll Wilh You iunior Jackie Duke, freshmen Jona Nielsen and Chris Bundren pain? a sign reading Y.C.T.I.W.Y. The signs broughl much allenlion as baffled sludenfs aflempled lo decipher The inilials. which The Kirby's make lheir enlrancef' Adding aulhenlicily To 'rhe produclion was a well- planned lobby display. The whole lobby was decoraled lo look like film clips from The era in which The play was sei, drama inslruclor Sue Poe said. All The ushers were dressed as cinema characlers from lhal period. We had Snow While and 'rhe Seven Dwarfs, Tarzan, Shirley Temple, AI Capone, Laurel and Hardy, and Charlie Chaplain. You Can'l' Take I+ Wilh You l

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plans made and reservaTions secured Tor a rendezvous aTTer The game wiTh ThaT special daTe. Monday Through Friday seniors rallied The Troops preparing To win The spiriT sTick Trom The sophomores Tor good. The TradiTional nighT pep rally arrived overcasT and The muggy celebraTion goT underway wiTh The cheerleaders direcTing chanTs and yells in The snack bar. The band enTered playing and Took Their reserved place lining The lengTh oT The second level railing. The band was a big parT oT The pep rally because you could hear Them coming down The hallway. When all oT Them goT inTo The snack bar iT was really loud and everyone sTarTed clapping and cheering more because iT seemed more like a regular gym pep rally, sophomore Terri OaTes said. TigereTTes in maTching gold sweaTshirTs, Levis, and Tennis shoes clapped, screamed uninhibiTedly and played crack-The-whip Through The crowd. I enjoyed iT buT iT did geT hoT aTTer a while. . . l couldn'T see unless l goT up on a bench cause There was a loT oT people, iunior Kim LinharT said. From The minuTe The band sTruck up The beginning sTanza, Friday morning was an all ouT sTruggle beTween The sophomores and seniors Tor The spiriT sTick. Hand signs, T-shirTs, conTeTTi, homemade posTers, crazy haTs, gliTTer socks, sTuTTed Tigers, and anyThing black and gold waved TranTically in conTesT Tor The iudges' eyes. ATTer The cheers, skiTs, sTunTs, and inTroducTion oT The queen candidaTes Julie Blincow, Susan PeTers, and Laura WrighT, To The sophs disappoinTmenT, The envelope designaTed The seniors as vicTors oT The spiriT sTick. We shouldn'T geT iT iusT because we're seniors. IT we don'T geT iT ThaT iusT means ThaT we didn'T Try hard enough, senior Susan Crain ,jg I , Q, 1 , ff f J f i yn ga: if 32 pf! we W 'S 1 V! ip-'V 1' vm -T ,ox ,-,X F J' Q 4 T I Q , T HA i?'::!Qft5i3'-A? I 5 TQ K-.QI rf ff . 2 . i in Com eraTivo shopping provides helpgil hinTs for senior Gregg WenTworTh as he examines The l.C.T. mums on display. WenTworTh laTer chose an arrangemenT com- pleTe wiTh goal posTs and school leT' Ters from Flowers JusT For You. Donning clown cosTumos and shed- ding Their usual behavior were Teachers Ginger Sfiles, CleTa OrT- loTT. Sharon Scoogins and Sylvia OrTiz. The acT, performed during The homecoming pep rally, had a surprise Tor The TaculTy parTicipanTs. They layed iT Twice as TasT as we normally learned iT. said STiles. Qi 'T 4 T K T' ' ii .. A . Q ,M eff- if ' W, gn ' Q ' ' ,- ,X K ' 9-ix. V ru' Lf- 4 5 7gH'.,,' ,N v T ' T R ng pk t 1' ' i 4 ,K E J' v.. f a v eel A 1'P'T' 4 J' v For The Tirsl Time since The Sfraford game of '77 The weaTher Turned sour Tor Spring Woods specTaTors. Bundling againsT The clammy winds wasn'T enough, The rain conTinued and The homecoming crowd was Torced To unsnap Their umbrellas. Homecoming l 3