Altus Senior High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Altus, OK)

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Ready to declare war on Ardmore. John Henry Thomas is decked out in his war gear. Maybe if he had been more camouflaged he may not have gotten a battle wound. Ac- tually. he cut his finger, which had to be stitched at the emergency room, while preparing his costume. Before being sabotaged by the seniors and sophomores Susan Faske has some time to put the finishing touches on the junior's bulldog for hall decorations. Nicki Kaseeska Spirit Week! Already! Oh, no! need to find some really good costumes for the dress-up days. At the first junior class meeting, we discussed a few ideas about the skit and hall. After an argument or two, we decided on our themes. We knew to beat the seniors and sophomores, we had to pull together. The skit committee was busy writing an excellent skit. 1 had one line. I had to tell Sho-Nuff that the teachers were coming. The skit got better each time we did it. I was supposed to act scared, but that was hard to do with Sho-Nuff looking through his shades. Finally, it was our day to do the skit. Despite problems with costumes, it was perfect. The hall decorations on Thursday weren 't so perfect as the skit. By the time we got all of our decorations up in our short hour, it looked like we had estimated the hall was shorter than it really was. I really enjoyed Spirit Week. I made many friends and met some really wonderful people by getting invouled. I wouldn ft trade being in the Class of 1988 for anything! pirit lAJeeL

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atch a Wave }QuL up til te ra r Miles of sparkling white sand . . . surfers on the ocean . . . bathing beauties dripping with Coppertone . . . sound more like Long Beach than Lake Altus? While Californians may have giggled at the Lake Altus beaches, students created their own waves during the summer. For some it was a time to go places. Kris Briscoe took a trip to California. “I met Vanna White at NBC studios and it was great!” he said. Summer also included a variety of camps to choose from that suited the students’ individual talents. They attended everything from music camps at Southwestern Oklahoma University to cheerleading, drill team and yearbook camps at the University of Oklahoma. Ronda Shepherd had different plans. ‘‘Some people thought I was really crazy for giong to WOSC this summer, but I wanted to get a little ahead on my college education. I had a total blast,” she said. Lake Altu» provided water, a scarce commodity in southwest Oklahoma. When students had a few spare hours, that is where they headed for sunbathing, picnics, mountain climbing and swimming. Mike Kiehn spends an afternoon at the lake with his family and even drives the boat for his sister. Michelle, to ski. While the scorching summer heat may have caused the older generation to hide inside, for the young it meant golden skin that was considered the height of looking good. With a pool in her own backyard. Kim Jarnagin spends every spare moment in the sun. Painting houses, mowing lawns and cleaning houses were things that one who did not have a regular job might have done to earn extra money. Eddie Jarnagin and Brett Willey painted houses. Anita Anderson spent her sum- mer working for the Army Reserve in In- dianapolis. She said, ‘‘My drill sergeants were pretty easy going. At times I missed bed check and got away with it. I was such a brown noser!” Moving played a major part in the summer for Tracy Simpson. While moving to Altus from Alaska, she and her family rode a ferry for four days. While on the ferry, she was interviewed for a book that a man was writing. A trip to Lake Altus might have revealed hundreds of sunbathers, skiers and the ever popular three wheelers. ‘‘I come out here almost every day,” said Kyle McCoy. ‘‘This is where the action is.” When no folders with pockets and binders could be found in the stores, that meant that school was about to start. The end of August spelled the beginning of another school year. Summer work took different forme. Some even work ed for no funds. Brian Bobo cons friends Scott Proctor and Randy Storey into helping him with yard work. Money played an important part of life for most students. Some needed money for entertainment, clothes, college and even for their own car payments. Jennifer Claiborne works at the Bunker Hill United to earn money for her clothing habits. Summer

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pirit gone wild Wot three, hut one Spirit Week was filled with excitement for students and parents alike. With water balloons flying through the air and fire extinguishers drenching everyone in sight, who could have helped but have a good time? “We had a blast! Being out every night just having fun, and being seniors made it even better!” said Jana Bills. Spirit Week officially began with Toga Day. The togas bore a strong resemblance to old sheets someone dragged out of the linen closet. The laurels looked suspiciously like wisteria branches. And those shoes! No Roman worth his fig leaves would have worn yellow high- topped Converse tennis shoes in public, surely. “Am I seeing double?” One might have asked that on favorite teacher day. Seeing doubles, triples and even quadruples of teachers was common on this day. Melissa Acheson dressed as Mrs. Virginia Thomas and her own daughter, Sara, had to look twice. On Thursday, war was declared on Ard- more. With all the camouflage, telling one stu- dent from another proved difficult. Marsha Taylor, Tammy Packard, Kris Weber and Tamra Romines somehow maneuvered their way off campus to McDonald’s for lunch. They even survived a near attack from Mr. Mike Copeland as he passed by on Broadway. “We all had our war gear on and some military people were in McDonald’s and they were laughing at us. When they left, they told us to defend our coun- try well,” said Marsha Taylor. Preparation for hall decorations started weeks before at the first class meetings. During Spirit Week class members met in top secret places to put their decorations together. However, by Tuesday evening, the secrets were out along with water balloons. The three classes had exactly one hour to decorate their halls on Thursday night. Cries could have been heard calling for staple guns and ladders. A wall fell over in junior hall. “The first thing I thought of was that we had to get things done now!” said Kerrie Brinkman. After the decorations had been put in place, all the students met in front of the school for a pep rally. The competition of the week was forgotten as only Bulldogs rallied to cheer the team to victory. Whisked back into the time of the Romans, Karen Smades shows off her toga for the judges But. she must have gotten confused because she was walking like an Egyptian. Dara Riggs, Michelle Johnson, Tammy Thomas, Jill Bills and Nancy Hoyle were the jungle chorus in the sophomore skit Dog Zan and the Tiger.” Although they gave their best effort the sophomores came in last in the competition.