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

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I4 Good as gold said. However, The seniors obviously did Try hard enough. AlThough The rain misTed, sprinkled or poured ThroughouT The NorThbrook game, homecoming wasn'T as dreary as The weaTher indicaTed. The sTands were iusT as crowded as The dry Spring Branch game The week before excepT now The bleachers were a sea of bobbing umbrellas, moisT blankeTs, and shielding rain slickers. The rain was very disappoinTing, buT l know l'll remember iT because of ThaT, especially when everyone leT go of The balloons and They wouldn'T go up because of The rain, Treshman BeTh . f -.' 'five if .-if: 6 Q Homecoming Bounds said. While The Bandoleras waiTed dry in The busses Tor Their halTTime show, The TigereTTes braved The weaTher wiTh rain apparel, noneTheless soggy. We pracTiced all week wiTh Tlags and Then when iT rained aT The game They all goT weT and wouldn'T work ir The ripples we had planned To do. so aT The lasT minuTe we had To cuT ThaT parT ouT of The show, Colonel Juli Bump said. Bump also reminisced ThaT homecoming was a sad evenT Tor her. l cried on The Tield, oTT The Tield, before and aTTer on The bus. . .When They announced The queen -1 is-sr he fellow band Supporfive of Their members perched on The sTaircase. flag corps members sophomores Lanae Lee and Rhonda Conley. iun- iors Tara PorTer and Sandra Manis- calco, Treshman Cindy Pafferson and sophomore NiTa Smith Take a break beTween classes To celebrafe homecoming and The lasT foofball game of The season. in l Affer The rain sTopped, Homecom- ing Queen Susan PeTers abandons her umbrella and searches The side- lines crowd Tor a 'familiar face before halTTime begins. Anxiously eweiTing The beginning of The homecoming TesTiviTies. queen candidate Julie Blincow waTches as The band and TigereHes conclude Their halftime performances. The reigning '78 queen. Keli Torres Aponfe, reTurned for The N0rTh- broolr game To crown The newly chosen '79 queen.

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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

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O-TW WiTh homecoming mums and bou- Tonnieres covered by sTuTTy rain slickers, senior KaThy Molloy and Treshman Donald Leners are rallied inTo a sTanding cheer by a Tiger Touchdown aT The NorThbrook game. everyThingiusTgushed .. .IT was wonderTuI - buT iT was Terrible! The rain paused aT halTTime Tor The crowning oT The homecoming queen, Susan PeTers, by reigning queen, Keli Torres AponTe. I don'T remember whaT happened . . .The band was screaming aT me and They almosT knocked me down when I came OTT OT The Tield. I don'T remember being crowned or anyThing . . .I don'T Think Tears came To by eyes, buT I cried inside. I guess iT was a combinaTion oT cold, scared and weT. I s+iIl don'T believe iT, PeTers said. ? f-Mum-u....M ? v ' at , f N Shelfered from The rain by her TaTher's. umbrella. queen candi- daTe Laura WrighT calmly holds her ribboned rosebud prior To her Time To walk ouT on The Tield Tor The announcemenT oT The '79 homecoming queen. CongregaTed in The snack bar area hoping Tor a homecoming vicTory, TigereTTes crowd along The resTricTing rope To ioin The cheerleaders in hand clapping chanTs during The nighT pep rally. Homecoming I5