Carroll High School - Anchor Yearbook (Corpus Christi, TX)

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on Carroll, Spirif and The Bicenfennial he year. Usually, everyone has goT a JT oT spiriT during TooTbaIl season nuT when The season is over and iT lidn'T Turn ouT The way you wanTed iT o, The spiriT Tades. The only ime people really care abouT sporTs is Twe are winning, buT if we don'T, They eel, WhaT's The use in backing up he Team? Dawn Gormley Junior We had a loT oT hearT. Our ooTbalI Team was really Tough. -he sTudenT body kepT Them going. I 'hink There was a IoT oT pride and TaiTh n The TooTball Team. Homer Carvaial Senior The Carroll spiriT is really going downhill. Too many people Think 'haT The only Time To show spiriT aT all is aT The TooTbaIl games, and 'hen iusT aT The big games. The pep 'allies don'T seem To achieve Their Jurpose in ThaT mosT people siT down and fvaTch insTead oT sTanding up and JarTicipaTing, which is a school 'radiTion. Walking ouT beTore The I-'xlma MaTer and TighT song is really rude and someThing should be done abouT iT. Dianne Saldana Junior The spiriT aT Carroll is preTTy good as a school, buT iT's noT Jverwhelming. Whenever we geT in a :IuTch, everybody pulls TogeTher, buT when we're in The clear, nobody shows spiriT. Richard Merriam Senior People Tend To geT carried away wiTh all This school spiriT. I Think iT's imporTanT, buT noT worTh TighTing over or going To games To yell, 'KiII'! Juli Belian Junior One nighT I came back To school To work on The junior breezeway proiecT Tor a spiriT conTesT. A Tew oT us had been working Tor hours, and aTTer many aTTempTs The whole proiecT seemed hopeless. Ask anyone who was There. We almosT gave up. buT we kepT going. I didn'T know why, iT was such a big wasTe oT Time. Early in The morning we came back To Tinish. I could see The gianT Tiger Trom The sTreeT. I remember walking along The breezeway Toward iT. IT was Then ThaT I realized The Tiger spiriT oT The pasT, presenT and TuTure which sTayed wiTh me long aTTer I IeTT. Homer Cavazos Junior On The BicenTennial: To me The BicenTennial isn'T ThaT big oT a deal. lT's nice ThaT our counTry has been There This long, buT I mean, iusT saying iT's The BicenTennial year - whoopeel Richard Merriam Senior The word 'BicenTennial' has become Too commercialized. EveryThing I see or hear abouT usually has someThing To do wiTh iT. IT seems as Though The people OT our socieTy are cramming The word down our ThroaTs. LeTTy Gonzalez Junior Oh no, noT again! Juli Belian Junior EveryThing painTed red, whiTe, and blue. Homer Carvaial Senior On whaT made The year special: IT's my senior year and The lasT year I'II be wiTh a lor oT These people. Lisa Lewis Senior I've made a loT more Triends Than lasT year. I'm a junior, noT a sophomore They always puT down. I do a IoT more Things Tor The school. Sonny Hinoiosa Junior NoThing seems To boTher me as much as lasT year because I know whaT To expecT now and look Torward To. Dawn Gormley Junior Being a seniorl IT means seTTing an example Tor sophomores and iuniors, and Trying To make yourseIT beTTer. Homer Carvaial Senior I meT more guys This year! Anonymous Junior I meT a IoT oT people Through STudenT Council. This year I parTicipaTed in a IoT oT Things and l'Il have a lor oT memories To look back on. Richard Merriam Senior People, always, The people . . Juli Belian Junior Discovering a diTTerenT way To express Their feelings Tor Their counTry, Jerry McKinney, Barbara Chamberlain, Tara Glass, Lesly Jones and Wren Gray prepare To saluTe The BicenTennial aT The Corpus ChrisTi Museum. The group, 'The FuTures,' performed 'Famous American songs and verses arranged by Dr. Eugenia Briscoe.

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Pie Throwing highlighTs The King pep rally. As Mr. Al Hook wipes The cream from his face wiTh The help of Mary Helen TolleTT, Coach Gilliam and Mr. Dave Lyons have a good laugh aTTer clobbering George Levy and Tim SmiTh. The school, spiriT and The uniqueness oT The year made inTeresTing impressions on The sTudenTs oT l976: On Carroll: The aTmosphere is real comTorTable: lT's real easy To geT along because oT The people ThaT go here. Homer Carvaial Senior l like iT a loT. l Think iT's beTTer Than any oTher school - iusT The surroundings. The Teachers, The people, The school. Sonny Hinoiosa Junior lT's a loT diTTerenT Trom King because oT The TacT ThaT iT's wide open, buT The people are generally The same. David Moore King sTudenT lT's a good school because oT The people ThaT go here. There's a loT oT enThusiasm, and There's some preTTy good Teachers l guess. Donald Kubala Senior Carroll High is The greaTesT school wiTh The TriendliesT TaculTy and sTudenTs, and The only school wiTh I8 AcTiviTies grass ThaT you can siT on and Trees ThaT you can siT under whenever you Teel like iT. Dianne Saldana Junior l like iT. IT has iTs advanTages. ldon'T know all The people aT Carroll. l know almosT everybody aT King: iT geTs To be a bore seeing The same Taces everyday. Mike Hummel King sTudenT More people go To Carroll Than any oTher school. l Teel like l know a loT oT people when l'm going anywhere. l mighT noT know Them by name, buT l know Them by Tacef' Richard Merriam Senior To me, Carroll High is a greaT place, and l sure wouldn'T go To any oTher school. LeTTy Gonzalez Junior Everyone seems To geT along . . You rarely hear oT any TighTs. Dawn Gormley Junior IT could be any school. High school To me is noT an end, buT a means. lT's only preparaTion Tor The resT oTliTe. Juli Belian Junior Never siT on The iunior and The OuTlaws, warm-up group Tor Lynyrd Skynyrd, play 'There Goes AnoTher Love Song' as fans cheer and clap during The rock concerT in Memorial Coliseum. ACT ' ' 'e lvlfl . senior sides aT The pep rally, and never walk down The sixTh wing if you wanT To breaThe. Don LivingsTon Sophomore People really do care and There is a TanTasTic Teeling oT uniTy beTween everyone. Dianne Saldana Junior Whenever you wanT someThing done like work, Through STudenT Council, people don'T wanT To do iT. Being presidenT, l geT To know TirsT hand whaT's going on. l have a good Time doing whaT l do. Richard Merriam STudenT Council PresidenT l've meT a loT oT people. Even if you can'T meeT everybody, iT's a loT OT Tun Trying. BeTh Heslep Sophomore Never buy elevaTor TickeTs 'cause There ain'T no elevaTor. Anonymous Junior On SpiriT: l'm more involved in spiriT This year. LasT year The TooTball Team did so good. Now we have To geT The spiriT up, buT we're doing real good. l like The spiriT. Susan Brown Cheerleader IT seems To slowly Tade during

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I I Gambling becomes legal IT was a busy spring Tor STudenT Council and choir perTormers. STudenT Council sponsored iTs TirsT lvlonTe Carlo NighT, providing parTicipanTs wiTh 5,000 dollars in reTurn Tor Their S I .50 enTrance TickeT. lvlosT gamblers losT Their money playing rouleTTe, poker, blackjack and craps, buT a Tew increased Their holdings To millions oT dollars and boughT posTers, albums or a dinner Tor Two during The aucTion. STudenTs also elecTed new council oTTicers: Richard Merriam, presidenT: Cheryl Kosarek, vice presidenT7 Vicki Silverman, secreTary, and Dina lvlonTalvo, Treasurer. Junior Council sTaged iTs TalenT show, wiTh Cheryl Ferguson's When Will lSee You Again? winning over I I acTs. The STudenT Council campaigned Tor sTaTe vice presidenT, using The Theme 5 4 i Fairy Prince Paul Dunne Takes a 'Flying leap onTo The back of Mean Dragon STeve Sanford aT The annual choir Pops Concer-T. 20 AcTiviTies Sparkling CiTy by The Sea, buT losT To Apple Pie and Tivy High of Kerrville aT The sTaTe convenTion in San AnTonio. OuTsTanding council members, chosen by The oTTicers, were Diana BallesTeros, Oscar Benavides, Deban Dawson, Jill Gary, Laura PaTTerson and Connie STewarT. Choir sTudenTs produced Two performances, one in coniuncTion wiTh Mrs. J. J. Rains' speech class. A Tolk opera oT romance and murder, Down in The Valley, sTarred choir members Alan WroTenbery, Kay ChasTain and James Harris, wiTh speech sTudenTs in The supporTing casT of The March 7 producTion. The choirs held Their Pops ConcerT April 29, wiTh The Theme Re'llecTions. Besides skiTs and commercials, songs including The Way We Were, lime in a BoTTle, Be and PainT Your Wagon enTerTained sTudenTs. Campaigning for The sTaTe vice presidency means keeping many aTTer-school hours Tor STudenT Council member Laura Pa'Herson and Vice PresidenT Brenda Nichols