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

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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

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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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That esTless Trom six periods oT mind- racking acTiviTy. weary sTudenTs anTicipaTed Their TavoriTe evenT oT The school day: The momenT when sixTh period ends and Treedom begins. When The bell sounded. Those who could made Their geTaway quiclcly by way oT bus or auTomobile. BuT There were Those whose added responsibiliTies Torbid Them To vacaTe The premises wiTh The rnaioriTy oT The enrolled sTudenTs, One group which CommiTTed iTselT To sTaying aTTer school was The cheerleaders. During ToOTball season. The eighT member group. plus The Tiger mascoT, Tollowed a rigid schedule oT pracfices. 'Usually we sTarTed on Monday by deciding what sliiT we were going To do. Chris Dailey said. Then we pairiTed The posTers we needed Tor ThaT weelc and we also Tound ouT who The capTains OT The weeli viere Tor The TooTball Teamfi The close oT TooTball season did noT end This group s career because They sTill a'Ter-ded baslceTball games abd imporTanT .oliencall games 'C Crom:Te l sr r ' amend 'he srecTaT:'s. . i Hefner :r3ani:a' on The -J 53,3 :.93uen.i FSS'Ff'i5'3 f 'E '395 Q .. l J, X 'K 9- ini .,-9 i- U- 5, 5 x i i L ... ,T-, rc lnsTrumenTs raised aT - N c extra effort members were aslced To supply Their own personal Tree Time aTTer school To rehearse Tor halTTime perTormances. concerTs. section rehearsals. and ensemble and solo rehearsals, T During Tootball season. we pracTiced every day aTTer schoolf' iunior Sharon McNeil said. All oT The girls changed Their cloThes so ThaT iT wouldn T be so hoT. AlmosT everyone wore shorTs Tor pracTice T McNeil said. Usually we sTayed aTTer unTil 5 or 5:3O.'i senior l-lolly Williams said. Marching band members pracTiced in The parking loT beTween The Tield house and The naTaT0rium while members oT The Tlaq corps wenT elsewhere To drill on Their rouTines separaTely Trom The band. We pracTiced by The band hall, l.ieuTenanT Flag CapTain McNeil said. i'EirsT oT all PaT Jordan and l made up The drills and we pracTiced Them unTil 5 or 5:3O. 'iWe also had secTion rehearsals once a week unTil 5:OO, Williams said. Even aTTer all oT ThaT. many sTudenTs delayed aTTer The group was dismissed To worlc ouT individual problems 'il didn'T have To. buT iT is a good idea To get as much pracTice as possible. senior Ed BusTamenTe. who plays percussion in The symphonic band, said. Many Toolc privaTe lessons. Too, which was done compleTely on our own Time, according To Williams. The lessons usually lasTed Tor 30 minuTes. Also rehearsing, Though inTreguenTly. was The orchesTra. We didn'T pracTice much aTTer school excepT beTore concerTs, insTrucTor Babara Corlcins said. Senior Evelyn Eleming commenTed ThaT They pracTiced aTTer school To accompany someone and senior Terice PreTo said. We don'T pracTice a loT Though. An addiTional group which E T' di , -k .Vv Given an offer :chez appz . f '.' 'C 'rcwfe 'Te r '.Tee'lea inc eb T: fe' 7: M f ar' Cave' are E' i Qarreu 'ale acre age if 'Te 'Ja w. U' r, 1 ,G fr.,