Anderson High School - Afterthought Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Grade they'd rather be a senior just one more year. Through it all, it was the thrill of accep- tance and the realization that he or she would be welcome somewhere for the next few years that made all the hassles seem worthwhile. Different Strokes With a variety of typewriters ranging from the finger-powered manual to the popular electric, students found many reasons to type. Althought school work was the only use of typewriters to many, Denise May said I enjoy typing when I don't have anything to do. I usually use my typewriter in typing reports for school and things for my mother. Dana Daye said I only type when I have to or when typing reports for school. With the new Smith-Corona type- writers with erasable cartridges and IBM typewriters with an eraser at the touch of a finger, typing was made easier for those who were plagued by constant errors. Typewriters. If they could just learn to type. awiwaat ai if.- .AJ It All Adds Up Time saved using an electronic minicalculator seemed to be well worth the cost. Higher math students found the electronic slide rules easily affordable as four function calculators once costing over S100 were now under 320. I save up to two hours a night on my trig and physics homework with my calculator, commented Bill Beightler. Bill Studak took his calculator to work with him to use at Swensen's Ice Cream Factory. The math department allowed tri- gonometry and analysis students to use their calculators on tests within AISD guidelines. Allowing the students to use calculators enabled the analysis teachers to put more problems on the tests. Three calculators were provided for the stu- dents who didn't buy or borrow one. Only seven to eight students in each class don't own one, Mrs. Nina Fling commented. However a student used a calculator, to balance a checkbook or for homework, it became an important time-saving device for many students and faculty. grades, college, typewriters, calculators 29

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5 M Peanut AVE 1'nA Torn ticket stubs, yellowed programs and crumbling flowers might not have held much value to the casual observer, but to the owner they were as treasured as the gold in Fort Knox. Bringing back both sad and happy memories, memen- toes were kept and preserved on bulletin boards, in scrapbooks and in other safe places. I keep anything and everything that has sentimental value in a drawer. It is priceless to me, said Mindy Blitch. The usual mementoes were assorted objects such as pictures, hotel towels and postcards, but some were rather bizarre. I knew a girl who kept a button from ev- ery guy she went with, laughed Mitch Drummond. Arranging the mementoes on a bulletin board or in a scrapbook was a task in- volving the utmost care, especially when the five-year-old corsage crumpled at a mere glance and the pictures curled up on four corners. After being pasted, tacked or tied down for the umpteenth time, most ended up looking like the sur- face of the moon, wrinkled and pitted, but treasured just the same. Life is full of memories, so bulletin boards and dresser drawers are full of mementoes of those memories. Finders Keepers While the government collected more taxes and presidential candidates col- lected votes, students collected every- thing from Cosmopolitans to coins and beer Cans. Amassing great numbers of the possi- bly rare items required the items to be basically small and hopefully cheap: however, the money problem was often eliminated by generous parents and affluent friends. Ieff Rosenfield's foreign coin collection began with contributions from friends in Europe and Nancy Grafton's spoon col- lection was added to by her father. He travels a lot and brings them to me from wherever he goes, she commented. Some collectors began young. I was collecting plastic rings when I was little, commented Sue Gondron. Now, she .col- lects real rings consisting of gold, tur- quoise or diamonds. Music is my favorite form of entertainment and records are the most practical form of music, remarked col- lector Ricky McCall, who has 450 rock albums. But as the government was spending the taxes and the candidates were paying off the voters, some collectors were faced with large problems. Where does one put 450 rock albums and 200 beer cans? First Class Remarks Neither rain nor snow or gloom of night shall stay couriers from their ap- pointed rounds. The only problem with that was an appointed round cost 13 cents 30 priority possessions a letter. Even though most first class mail supposedly traveled by air, some won- dered if the hike in price was for rent on storage. The rise in price did not discourage the senders of junk mail. Students were con- tinually plagued by offers to Dear Occu- pant for magazine subscriptions, record clubs and even, Learn to be a shoe sales- man by mail. I get lots of junk mail for cosmetics and magazine subscriptions but I throw it all away, said Tami Boat- wright. Seniors were further inundated by col- lege brochures and flyers from Uncle Sam. I've received an enormous amount of mail, probably over 150 letters, senior Iulie Shapiro said. Frequently heard questions of Has the mail come yet? and Did I get any mail today? revealed anticipation of a letter from a special person or friend. When it finally arrived it was usually read, reread and treasured as boxes and drawers were stuffed with old letters. When I get bored I go back and read them, junior Cindy Winetroub said. Even if the price was higher, the mail- man was eagerly awaited by all. Though it might have been only junk mail, it was better than none.