Booneville High School - Reveille Yearbook (Booneville, AR)

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 Good Times it while it lasts. After all, this is the best time of your life. When I was a kid ... Wasn't our parents' time difficult? Don't we have it so much better? This is supposed to be the best time of our lives. Right?! Being teenagers, life's automatically easier, isn't it? At least thirty-six hours a week to go to school, plus fifteen hours for homework. (Almost all of us have heard from five different teachers, My homework will only take an hour. ) That's fifty-three hours so far. That's not even considering the part-time jobs some of us have. Our parents complain about having forty hour weeks. But, because we are young, we somehow find time for the dates and fun things we do with our friends. The keys to the family car and a few dollars are sometimes all we need to take the few left-over hours we have and squeeze in some good times. Our parents also talk about all the opportunity we have. The opportunity to see our friends die from drugs and alcohol. A chance to see our friends lose their futures because of unwanted pregnancies. A chance to fail in life because our own parents won't pass a millage increase. The chance to mess up, and get back on our feet, because time's on our side. If these are the best times, we'd hate to see the worst. But, hey, things aren't all bad. We don't have to pay taxes. We don't have to feed, clothe, and shelter ourselves. Mortgages, loans, and bills are some things we won't have to worry about for a few years. It's been said that adolescence is a time of great responsibility and no privileges. We do have some privileges, the privilege of feeling secure enough to have a good time. Along with these privileges, there is a responsibility. The responsibility of making the future a better place for ourselves and our chil- dren. That's our real opportunity. Someday, we'll be an integral part of that future. We'll have the privileges of adults. We'll probably say to our kids, Enjoy it while it lasts ... and they'll have their own set of problems and pressures. Time will be on their side, too. By Eric Nelson Even though Jill Chalfant is ex- hausted from another hard day at BHS, she still has enough energy to produce a few good laughs. Photo by Trena Adair STUDENT LIFE DIVIDER

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 My parents think that my greatest responsibility is feeding the cattle, and my privilege is, they buy the feed and I take in the profit ' -Buckley Foster N hat do you think your parents think is your greatest responsibility and do they giu you an appropriate privilege to go with it? Jeff Smith and Marc McElveen have a good time reading the sports page in Mr. Miller's U.S. Gov- ernment class. Photos by Mike Robbins

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The weekend is always started off with a bang when the Cats burst through the victory line. Scotty Dun- ham (48) starts the night's activities. Photo by Trena Adair The Arkansas-Oklahoma state fair, held annually in early Sep- tember in Fort Smith, is some- thing interesting to do on week- ends. Here, Cary Whitehead rides the Thunderbolt. Photo by Shirley Gill Cheek to cheek, Kim Mulson and James Osborne dance the night away at the annual Homecoming Dance. Photo by Trena Adair GOOD TIMES LAYOUT DESIGN BY AMEE EVANS top priority Weekends! The room is deathly quiet. The air is filled with mysterious expectation of what is to come. No one stirs. Sounds like the opening scene of a murder my- stery? Look closer. All eyes are focused on the big white wall clock. Feet are poised in preparation to dash out the door. NOW what does it sound like? Right! The end of 7th period on a Friday afternoon. As soon as the bell rings, everyone dashes out the door, shouting, IT'S THE WEEKEND! Okay, it's the weekend. What happens now? Many students have favorite week- end pastimes. The thing I look forward to most about the weekends is getting to sleep as late as I want to, said Beth Love. But even something as wonderful as weekends has its faults. Jacky Young can relate to this. 1 just hate it when there is no one up town! he said. Leigh Blake agreed, If I could change one thing about weekends, it would be getting more activities for teenagers to do in Booneville! Dustin Blankenship summed up how most students feel when he said, 1 think I'd like to add about three more days to the weekend. I mean, the thing I dread most about them is having to get up Monday morning and go to school! By Shannon Dunn