Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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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

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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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UFO's assimilate data on recreational night, fair Extraterrestrial beings from outer space, after observing a group of high school stu- dents, concluded that the classroom was not the center of the students’ universe. In fact, to state the obvious, they decided that a large part of every student’s time was devoted to recreation. The aliens saw that this recreation involved a variety of activities externally located with respect to the learning center. Further observation led them to hypothesize a preferred student activity was to attend large social gatherings to which people went purely for enjoyment and personal gratification. Pedants attending the educational institute, commonly known as AHS, were perceived to be particularily attracted by two congregations. Terms used in reference to those were ‘“‘rec night’’ and the “fair.” The creatures from outer space, after monitoring a building which appeared to be a center of physical activity, discovered that on certain nights of the year that large rectangular 16—Student life many AHS pupils were collected there observing rec night. Assorted rituals appeared to be involved. Some students were hitting a small, hollow celluloid sphere back and forth with flat, oblong wooden structures that were attached to a handle. Others were centered around a net striking a sphere approximately one foot in diameter across the net. Performance of these activ- ities appeared to be measured by one side’s ability to keep the sphere in motion while obeying a set of standard rules. One group was gyrating their bodies, and the only governing factor in that activity appeared to be a sequence of sounds arranged in a definite pattern. In another time period, when the urban center known as Abilene was on the side of the planet facing away from this system’s star, the visitors to Earth focused their instruments on a concentration of light and activity just outside Abilene. This area was the focus of intense activity for three rota- tions of the Earth, known to the inhabitants as November 8, 9 and 10. The specific loca- tion was referred to by the Earthlings as Taylor County Coliseum. Again as with rec night, a myriad of separate activities were merged to form a single occasion. “‘Fair”’ was the term utilized by the area’s in- digenous population for this occasion. Some of the native population were devouring consumables in such quantity as to place undue stress on their digestive systems. Others were exchanging local cur- | rency in return for attempts to earn for |} themselves a reward. Especially fascinating | to those present were the mechanical devices located throughout the area. Those who rode the machines gave the impressions that their function were to increase the heartbeat and subject the rider to assorted rigorous degrees of stress. The creatures from outer space con-} cluded that recreation was a necessary part. of every human’s daily regimen. Though the modes of recreation utilized by Abilene high } were sometimes strange, they] schoolers appeared to play a definite role in the lives} of the students.