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

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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

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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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While some sTudenTs showed oTT Their IiTerary TaIenTs by wriTing composiTions, oThers showed Their TaIenT by wriTing Gra'I:TiTi on The walls. Words and numbers made up GraTTiTi and iT ranged Trom such Things as iuniors are The besT To The more popular Jack and Jill Toreverf' GraTTiTi appeared in such places as desk Tops, windowsills, backs oT chairs and baThroom doors. Thanks To The spiriT of anoTher school, 6raTTiTi decoraTed The walls oT Carroll all year. Even The seniors goT inTo The acT when They displayed The mosT popular oT 6raTTiTi phrases on Their breezeway decoraTion: Tigers No. I. Besides a pair oT jeans, a T-shirT, some money and a purpose, a sTudenT needed IiTTIe To have a good Time. BuT an ID sure helped. LiTTIe more Than a piece oT pIasTic encased cardboard, The ID served a greaT purpose. IT Took you where you wanTed To go. You iusT couIdn'T walk inTo a bar or lounge wiThouT an ID unless you looked 80 years old, owned The place or had a uniTorm on. So, wiTh a IiTTIe imaginaTion and an ID, you could go Tar. O 62 AcTiviTies +-- IT was TasT. IT was Tun. IT was alluring and sexy. IT became The cenTer oT aTTracTion Tor many dances. And once iT had arrived, noThing could sTop iT. ' IT was called The I'IusTIe. And iT husTIed onTo SouTh Texas dance Tloors wiTh a vengeance. NOT many could do iT. Those who could showed off and Those who could sTared blankly aT The Tloor. NeverTheIess, iT sTayed. And The I'IusTIe became anoTher way oT life. as ld