Austin High School - Comet Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Soaring cheers and surging Crowds, pompoms flying, short skirts swishing with every exultant jump - it's spirit, the kind of spirit that makes you want to do your best -the kind that makes you want to win. lt's contagious - it's a pep rally. Red jackets Selling paper spirit Ribbons on the sidewalks Paper covered pickups Soap smears on the Windshields and shouting. Ruthless numbers Squeezing close together- Shoulder salutations Chanting loud encouragements While tin soldiers with tin instruments Play discordant notes And they leap And fired-eyed, The numbers sing a song Of fighting presupposed triumph They're contented-unified at last Disperse. 1.-ll li

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0 LYAQUARTER. . . ff.--1 , d tal Supporting what needs to be supported, lohn Farr proceeds to answer Mr. Owen's questions. tbl Kelley Alf attentively watches the talent show. tcl Tal- ented teachers get together for a rousing time in the chorus line. tdl Michael Daughtery performs a striptease act for an awe-stricken audience. tel With furrowed brows and puckered lips, Mr. Price whistles a few bars of Dixie Assemblies. A refuge from the ordinary day class schedule. A time to meet your friends and discuss the day's happenings. A time to laugh at the ridiculous antics onthe gym floor. And a time to be serious, for a dedication. There are two reasons for having assemblies. One, to break the monotony of a long, long day. Two, to help raise money for club activities. This year, each club or organization raised an average of S200 dollars at each assembly. Considering the amount made at bake sales and other fund-raising events, assemblies became a quick and easy way to raise money. However, the School Board of Austin threatens to take away paid assemblies. This could hurt the clubs at A.H.S. by limiting the activities they can perform. Hopefully, with the supportive actions of the Student Council and the sponsors, paid assemblies will remain in view fora long time. After an assembly, it's the club's job to clean up the area after the people have left. Most of the time the students do a good job. However, some of the clubs do what they think is a cleanup. . .when actually it's not even near to what the custodians or faculty in charge expect it to be, explained Mr. Tolbert. However, he quickly then added, But all the clubs did an excellent job of organization and presentation. . This year, there were talent shows, a fashion show, an all-male show, a teacher tricycle race and several sport assemblies, to name a few. These assemblies support the clubs which keep the Everybody is somebody motto alive. If those paid assemblies go, then the spirit which kept those clubs alive will undoubtedly decline. ii .f Q 14. .v