Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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Lunch breaks day In the middle of a student’s day camea welcomed relief. A time of relaxation, eating and talking with friends, and maybe even running errands was provided by the hour allotted for lunch. With the open campus lunch system, students had the opportunity to eat at various eating establishments around town. The cafeteria and snack bar were open to students and provided many possibilities for a nourishing noon meal. A soup and salad line, a combo line in which students decided individual lunch food com- binations, and the regular lunch line were provided in the school’s cafeteria. After devouring their food, students had time to work on homework, make new acquaint- ances and get involved in various noontime activities. The lunch period divided the day into two segments making the school ex- perience more enjoyable for both faculty and students. 14—Student life

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Summer fades into memories “All right class, write a two hundred word essay on what you did during the summer.’ “Aw, do we have to?” “Just for that, it is due at the end of the period.” What | Did During My Summer Vacation | spent my summer trying to rest up from a year of failing during school. The first day | washed my car. The second day | went to look for a job. Not until a week later did | get one as a clerk in a department store. What a bore! After working from 8 to 5 everyday except Saturday and Sunday, | hardly had time to do anything. It was almost as bad as school, but | was getting paid. After a month of work, | had earned enough money to finish payments on my car. What a relief! Well, | kept earning and spending money. Spending it was more fun than anything else. On the weekends, | practiced football with some of my friends. One weekend | went sailing on Fort Phantom with my girlfriend. But then | would have to go to work again the next week. After all these weeks of work, football practice, washing my car, and as many dates as | could fit in, | believe | was looking forward to school. | wonder what illness | was suffering from, but now | know I’ve fully recovered. | think summer was better after all. Student life—13

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oe ¥ % ; Summer ends in hazy maze And then it happened. The summer abruptly ended in a sea of green cards and I. D.’s. Armed with pen and pencils, students made their way past the I. D. machine and medical records table, picking up their green schedule cards along the way. There, massed into lines surrounding the cafeteria, students frantically rushed to get their cards filled with teachers’ signatures before the classes they had chosen were filled. Frustrated sophomores gazed glassy eyed Into space while confronted with their seemingly insurmountable problem of which classes to take. After completing the required registration forms, students with all levels of registrating experience expressed their relief of “It’s over!” Once again AHS students had survived the trauma of registra- tion, but the real battle was yet to be fought. Sinking her teeth into lunch, Martha f{man faces the long task ahead. |Melody Reese contemplates the various | edule arrangements offered to sopho- res. l-oncentration is required for Steven $ hl’s cafeteria checkmate against Robert Gi ffin. 4 n the counselor’s office, Gary Kinder, y a Haddix and Diana Saunders discuss d | is selections. | | Student life—15