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

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.A all' le 4 a-4 in The inTricacy OT nominaTing procedures and yoTing choices Tor The crown oT The UniTed STaTes presidency hiT graduaTing seniors wiTh Tull impacT. They acTed ouT assigned inTluenTial roles as delegaTes Trom all sTaTes in The union and aTTer balloTing, chose l'lousTonian George Bush as The Republican conTender. Were you parT oT The Tour- hour hysTeria in The audiTorium on The morning oT March 26? Or did you waiT Through The day as an underclassman, anxious To hear oT The mock nominaTion7 Or did you Think Hmoclr whaT? Bush, mock presidenTial nominee, laTer wroTe To goyernmenT Teacher Bob Wells ThaT he had heard, while on The campaign Trail, oT his nominaTion in The moclc convenTion. l'le appeared in person on The audiTorium sTage on April 28 and accepTed The nominaTion. Tropical winds swayed leaTy palm Trees growing beneaTh a golden moon in The caTeTeria as The iunior class opTed To dance Their prom nighT away in a l'lawaiian-disguised lunchroom while seniors chose a more convenienT locaTion on WilcresT Drive, Lakeside CounTry Club. LIT Alarge parT oT iunior Fsnn Gilliard' s and hlorThbrook sTudenT Ralph Coolrfs nighT on The Town was spenT on The dance Tloor aT The Tropical iurfior prom. Ps clenched TisT symboli1.es The Tirm sTance ol Republican presidenhal conTender George hush Tor balanc- ing Tederal spending. Pxs a Tollow up To The moclc conyenTion in which he was chosen as The presfidenTial nom- inee, Bush delivered an accepTance speech and campaigned To an audi- Torium Tull ol seniors, Teachers, and TaculTy. For The small sum oT STOO and Two weeks oT worla on a sewing machine. senior Delpha Gruel TiTTed and sewed her own SouThern sTyle prom dress. Gruels moTher supplied The peTTicoaT and hoops Tor The laven- der qown which suiTed The Theme oT The prom, Gone NNiTh The NNind hosTed aT Lalceside CounTry Club. Closing I

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W As The year closed, and we recognized The rainbows legendary poT of gold. The coliseum was again The Tocal poinT ol many Tears and soggy senTimenTs. The maioriTy oT The same relaTiyes and acguainTances reTurned To view a sea oT alphabeTically seaTed gold caps and gown. Shin saTin ca s reeled inTo The Yi P air susTaining years oT TradiTion and breaking The TormaliTy oT The L. Jw ceremonial riTe while also , symbolizing in Their sponTaneous rise and Tall our pasT years' M dreams, sorrows, achieyemenTs all' gf ,ti 1 and ioys. ,, G' ' ' AlThough many oT our desires did noi materialize mio Qfaspable Exhaushon sTrikes alker The Tour Vlclorlesi our hOpe5 were mol hour long mock Republican conyenf exnnguished 55 we lell The Tion as senior Joe l'riTTs naps on The ' audiTorium Tloor am'idsT conTlicTing ongoing power oT gold. 1 campaign paraphernalia.