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

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'41 WhaT was more crowded Than a combinaTion oT The CrossTown Expresswai during rush hour, LichTensTeins during The ChrisTmas sale and The Third wing inTersecTion beTween TirsT and second periods? Give up? The local CiTizens Band. The laTesT craze Tinally reached Corpus Chris+i in The Tall OT '75, CB radio: The mobile radio Tor The populace. Every oTher car had The Tell-Tale CB whip, The righT arm oT a mobile radio. ThaT's a big IO-roger. The craze iTselT sTarTed wiTh The oil embargo, The 55-mile-per-hour speed limiT and a pair oT Truckers wiTh ears, One moTorisT caughT on, buying a CB himself, and Tollowed +ha+ Trucker saTe wiThin The Trucker's radio neT. Thus was The craze born. IO-4. raising 12 , T v .f 1 , 1 if r ' T C ,. ' -. I j T 3 .1 'PW fav T S s Tw' ' 5' T6 C T .s1 5gg,g,.T99' V ei' A U- V' fy i i g Zag' 5 f ! ' x T WhaT had IO eyes, rode low in The seaT, was blue and whiTe and was so-o-o cool? A carload oT Carroll sTudenTs, oT course. Cruising, Tor Those ignoranT oT This Time-honored pasTirne, was The pracTice OT driving around Town, 60 - AcTiviTies preTerably wiTh one or more enTerTaining passengers. RelaTed acTiviTies included The Chinese Fire Drill, where The car's occupanTs waiTed Tor a red lighT, Then all piled ouT oT The vehicle, raced around iT and climbed baclc in beTore The lighT Turned green. AnoTher variaTion was known as parking, and was besT pracTiced in The company OT a member oT The opposiTe sex. AlThough parking was Trowned upon by parenTs, iT was insTrucTive and cerTainly saved gasoline.

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MosT any sTudenT planning on going n To a higher school had a speciTic ollege in mind. Some sTudenTs planned n going To UT, oThers To UCLA, A8al or arvard. There was also a TighTly-kniT rlique ThaT was TaiThTul To Texas A8fIv1, The Aggies. A proud group, Those Aggies. veryThing They owned, in TacT. was mblazoned wiTh The Texas AEM logo, and -yas poTenTial maTerial Tor Aggie iolces. So widespread was Their inTluence ThaT The Carroll band even played The Aggie War Hymn. Gig 'emi a c -1 '73 E Q . is . i2-7-'37 STudying wasn'T sTudying wiThouT a 'adio. Relaxing wasn'T relaxing wiThouT bunch oT Triends. And comTorT wasn'T omTorT wiThouT a pair oT Blue Jeans. T Blue Jeans dominaTed a maior parT PT a sTudenT's wardrobe. One did everyThing in Blue Jeans. T They were worn Tor dancing, playing, Tlunking and doodling. , The more Taded The leans. The oeTTer. T Nobody Threw away Blue Jeans Trom The previous year. BuT if a person was liesperaTe Tor money. Blue Jeans could Tae Traded in or sold. BuT woe To The wearer wiTh The new pair oT leans. Breaking in was hard To do. V lac Jan One oT The besT places To go on a hoT Corpus ChrisTi summer day was The Beach, where Carroll sTudenTs pursued such TavoriTe acTiviTies as surTing, swimming, sTarTish-collecTing, sunbaThing girl-waTching and guy-waTching. AlThough The movie Jaws may have scared some people away Trom The waTer. iT didn'T seem To keep anyone OTT The Beach. MeeTing Triends aT Million Dollar was Tun, iT was easy, and besT oT all, iT was Tree. Alpha beT - 59

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Individualism. ll was expressed any ways during fhe '75-'76 'hool year. Mefhods ranged from rying sryles in shoe soles +o, 'rha1 s h+, 'rhar lowly piece of hardwear, sses. Variafions on The Theme included ion John pink speclacles, bugeyes -id fhe mosf unusual. upside down asses. The upside down glasses were zfually righl side up glasses wirh Sside down cenfers. ln o+her words uerled lenses in converfed frames. 60+ if? 'HA Ns All one needed was a pencil, desk lop and a boring class To come up wilh one of The oldesl occupalions in Jrhe world: Doodling. Sludenfs doodled piclures of Teachers, girls, guys, Tired musfangs and a variely of inanimale oloiecls. The penally lor Doodling was lo clean off 'rhe desk Top. Some escaped wilh no penalry al' all. Some leachers who lhoughr +ha+ sfudenls were merely Doodling were shocked fo 'Find our rhal Doodling was puf inro a more consfrucrive use. lhal of wrifing answers for lhe nexl lest BWBGI' 5 .sw- --, , its Whal sfarled our as a fad ended up as a permanenr parl of The American cullure. Frisbees, Jrhe flying saucer 'roy for children of all ages, could be seen everywhere - al' school, +he beach, backyards, lronlyards and playgrounds. Unlike 'rheir larger cousins, surf- boards and loicycles, Frisbees could easily be kepf in lockers or carried wilh one hand. They were porfable and even berler Than Jrhar, you didn'+ need lessons To play. Alphaber-ol