Caddo Magnet High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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MH Preferab»1vj, „ Hot And Spicy, Please TOOTSIE. It’s Halloween and senior Kenny Kline soaks in fellow senior Brandon Laird’s womanly outfit in the courtyard. THE PERFECT GIRL. Sr. Chris Keller shares a dance with a beautiful girl in the lunchroom

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PHYSICAL GRAFFITI. Observing the Powder Puff lootball game. sr. Mike Miller shows his answer to the He ' s a Loser” fad started by a group of senior girls. BUSTAMENTO LIVES UP TO HIS NAME! Apparently the unlawful ones. seniors Mike Strahan and Christian Valiulus are busted by (what we have adoringly dubbed) Cobra. in the parking lot after school. Louisiana. Oh, yes. Pirogues, swamps, alligators, Mardi Gras, the BIG EASY, debilitating summer heat. Sure, the temperature soars to a swel- tering 100 degrees in the summer time. But the thermometer reading and Cajun lore are not all that make Louisiana a very “hot” item these days. The ingredients for banner headlines are apparent. We sport the nation’s high- est unemployment and lowest literacy rates. We have been lambasted by the Wall Street Journal for our political cor- ruption, our woefully inadequate educa- tional System, our voodoo economics. And, thanks to the electronic media, we’ve been reminded that we are horne to the excesses of televangelism as well. But pretend, for a moment. that you are world-renowned Chef Paul Prudhomme. Your recipe calls for a culturally rich and remarkably diverse stock, to which you add a bit of Justin Wilson’s down- home humor, a dash of former Governor Jimmie Davis’s homespun philosophy, and a pinch of recently deposed Edwin W. “Fast Eddie” Edward ' s joie de vivre. Throw in a dab of sports enthusiasm. (The feats of any home-grown hero will do — Super Bowl MVP Doug Williams, the Boston Celtics ' Robert Parish, LSU’s Pis- tol Pete Maravich, golfing great Hal Sut- ton, FCA spokesman and former St. Louis Cardinal Pat Tilley, CBS commen¬ tator Terry Bradshaw, Honda’s racing ‘‘hot dog Freddie Spencer.) Don‘t forget that you need a touch of teamwork, so mix in Centenary College‘s national gymnastic champs, the Shreve- port Captains, the new New Orleans Saints, and collegiate basketball ' s peer- less Lady Techsters. LIGHT MY FIRE. On Wallace Lake dam senior Jill Mobley. Peter Williams, and others congregate together by the fireside. The dam was a popular place to meet during the year.

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(far left) MONEY HA!! At the ’87 Revel, Trish Hansford volunteers her time and Services to sell refreshments. Who Me. At the fall festival jr. Sherry Bush is caught chewing some undoubtedly tasty food. Let the sauce simmer for a while. Then stir the pot of controversy a bit more vi- gorously, whipping in Barksdale Air Force Base’s bid for the MX missile and Shreve- port’s brouhahas about the Confederate flag stili flying over the courthouse, the Race for Unity campaign, the not-yet- completed 1-220 bridge over Cross Lake, the not-so-sudden demise of the Red Riv¬ er Rose excursion boat, the proposed scenic railroad, a divided City council, and a Yankee (GASP!) police chief. Bring this mixture to a rolling boil be- fore cautiously blending in guarded opti- mism and other aesthetics — the efficien- cy award given to General Motors’ Shreveport works, the addition of Rock¬ well International and its adoption of Caddo Magnet High School, the slowly climbing test scores for the students of Louisiana, the national Rose Center, Barnwell Center’s newly created scent garden” for the visually impaired, and the first Academic Pentathlon for the middle schoolers of the state. Sprinkle in government reconstruction and fiscal responsibility. Add generous amounts of innovative and competent educational leadership. (See Dr. Robert Smith of Southern University-Shreveport, Dr. Darryl Williams of LSU Med School in Shreveport, LSUS’s Dr. Grady Bogue or Louisiana Principal of the Year Ascension Smith for correct proportions.) Dish up a bowl of this steaming nou- velle cuisine. Garnish liberally with the youth and en- ergy of Governor Buddy Roemer, a Har- vard-educated dynamo from Bossier City. Wait patiently — or impatiently, if you wish — for the melding of North Louisi¬ ana conservatism and South Louisiana bon vivant. A spicy concoction, to say the least. Bon appetit! And let the good times roll! WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS. AII decked out in red. Mike Strahan, Shayne Berry, Brian Blade. and friends pizzazz to the Homecoming games PREFERABIY HOT