Catholic Boys High School - Rocket Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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I'm sure that half hour of Wheel of Fortune will help me with that English test. Robert Macia makes use of the library. Use NevrDull on your jason Wolfe faithfully unfurls braces! Bill Wagner tells Old Glory every morning. Tim Cullen a date-winning secret. Student Life I wish I could wake up as David DeSalvo gets his first fast as they can run. john taste of before-school cram- Mastek records Physical Fitness ming. Team progress before school. ? X ,

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Hey guys! This is better than my bike. Senior jody Lensing gives freshman Brad Williams a lift. THE FIRST DAY THEY ARE ALL Catholic High. When you heard this the summer before your freshman year, did it bring feelings of apprehension to your mind? Did it inspire fear in your heart and bring knots to your stomach? Did it mean 3 page essays the first day of school and staying up till 1:00 in the morning doing unsolvable problems in Algebra? Sure it did. We upperclassmen just don't remem- ber it as well as the Freshmen do. jimmy Donato, a freshman, says he can remember perfectly well the way it feels to try to move down a crowded hallway in which everyone seems to be going the other way.jimmy also added that he didn't go up and speak to any upperclassmen because he thought they wouldn't want to be seen with a freshman. Another first day anxiety is the assem- bly. This is the hour in which freshman think that they will be personally ridiculed in front of their peers by the seniors C or so they have been toldj. Actually, only six or seven freshmen were called down this year. Brian Kent, one of the few chosen, said that it really wasn't too bad. Overall, the freshmen whom I interviewed all had one opinion in common: the first day wasn't as horrible as it was expected to be. That's a blatantly back-handed compliment to CHS, but it's safe to generalize that for the huge majority of freshmen their ensuing days and years here will provide them with enough satisfying and pleasurable times that truly fond memories will be the result.

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ARE THE SIGNS OF IIVIPENDING DOOM OK! You're finally awake after getting your average of about four hours less sleep than needed Cyou know: burning the candle at both ends D. Though you can't even remember your own name, you are forced to go to that daunting place: school. Upon arriving you have but little time until the all-too-punctual bell ringsg but, oh, how many things can be accom- plished in these precious moments! One of the most common things to do in the mornings before the bell rings is frantically to finish your homework. You have joined the group, whose number is legion, known as the procrastinators. If you are reluctant to acknowledge your membership in this pitiable group, look further in yourself for irrefutable signs: U the look of impending doom engraved on your face Cif this process of not completing homework continues, permanent scars will appear in your cheek bones and around your eyesj, 25 the flowing of tears down your face onto the Cprobably borrowedj crumpled-up piece of paper that you will attempt to turn in Csometimes this attempt is blocked by an insensitive brute known to all as the teacherj, 3D your pleading cries for sympathy that fall on deaf ears fthe wild stories of homework-eating pets, etc.j, and 4D your fatuous promise to God that if He helps you to finish this one assignment that you will never do this again. If the burdensome workload from the night before has been completed, the thing to do in the mornings is to socialize. This is not to be confused with the week- end practice of being seen for no apparent reason other than to be seen. This is the cultivation of the real thing: the camaraderie which is the stuff of your enduring friendships. You realize the bell for homeroom is impending. Something leads you to the lobby for one last word. The swinging doors yield to your push, you silently speak of matters more significant than incomplete homework and transitory popularity. The bell ringsg you rise and get ready to face the day. As you walk through the bustling lobby, the chapel doors close behind you.