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

Page 66 text:

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

Page 65 text:

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

Page 67 text:

'i . . fauna-Q. i ii The movie indusrry aliacked movie- goers wifh anofher form of enTer1'ainmen+,+he disasler movie. One of +he mosl no+able was +he movie, Jaws, which lerrified Corpus Chrislians for six monlhs. The whole counfry was swep+ wifh Jaws fever. Shark 'roofh necklaces, Jaws T- shirfs, Jaws books, Jaws cosfumes, Jaws posfers, Jaws dolls and even Jaws songs became The fad. The mania of Jaws was realis+ic fo Corpus Chrisfians since beaches are an ac+ive pa r+ of fhe ci+y. Some cilizens simply refused 'ro go To The beach. Bul' o'l'hers, lurned on by +he advenlure, 'Flocked fo +he beach in search of a live Jaws. Jaws Several imporfan+ new fashions appeared around people's necks and fingers. Puka shells, while circular shells from Hawaii, and liquid silver were popular necklaces. Turquoise and heishe beads also made a sfrong showing. Mood rings made of a special heal- sensifive quarlz crysfal became 'rhe new fad. The rings 'rurned blue on a happy hand and black on an angry hand. Acfually, 'rhey seemed 'ro rely on +he room remperafure. Bur whafever 'rhe mood, Jewelry was worn on fingers, necks and wrisfs and became an impor+an+ par+ of everyone's wardrobe. a-I GA Alphabef- 63