Crowley High School - Talon Yearbook (Crowley, TX)

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is J 'Nil Simply cal-tivating! A papier mache Garfield the Cat is the focus of an art student's attention. Cat-mania! hat was it about the little critters that caused them to appear everywhere - on picture frames, and even on pillows and sheets? Heathcliff, Garfield, and other cats of dubious lineage became the rage. People either loved cats or hated them, and cat-lovers followed their cat-heroes in comic strips or revered them on key- chains, posters, and calendars. Cat-haters retaliated by buying and quoting from the popular book 101 Uses For a Dead Catil v mc 9 NA1'uize's MOH PuRR-FEC' I CREATUR5 - m4mQ il, t.,, .1 11 E wi it Cold rush cause three-day break he winter of '82 would be one to remember. Winds blasted out the north and brought with them a record-breaking cold spell. Scatterings of snow, a thin coating of treacherous ice, and chilling ' temperatures made the winter of '82 one to remember. School was dismissed for three days, two because the gas company cut off the school's heat, and one because of icem Cold winds! A scattering of snow frosts rooftops and a schoolbus as seniors Mark Sprayberry and Mary Knight arrive at school. Fall rains. The drainage system was severely tested by deluges in the form of fall downpours.

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Punk came in 011 3 new Wave eadbands, gold-trimmed accessories, tennis shoes and legwarmers combined with unruly hairdos and a new wave beat to spell a new trend - punk, Everyone seemed to be jamming to the new wave beat set by such groups as Devo, B- 52's, the Co-Go's, the Kinds, the Plasmatics, and the Cars. Punk was most evident here on Halloween Day when seniors dressed as punk rockers. Extreme punk-ism did not reach Crowley, no one sported green hair. Punk was taken in small moderate doses. li Punky moves. Debbie Hinchcliffe dances to Do Yourself a Favor during the senior show. Go-Go rivals. Green touseled hair, trashed-out clothing, and a Devo t-shirt make Lisa Reese and Sherry Taggart legitimate punkers, Punk your stuff. Showing off their punky flare, senior girls provide color on Halloween Dress-Up Day. Tidbits 19

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Home video. Homework and regular network programming suffered from competition with home video games such as Atari. PacMan fever. Tiny ghosts and a cute little ball which gobbles things up captivates not only limmy Manous but the whole country. Donkey Kong. Dexterity and quickness are required from Karen Cain in her contest with Donkey Kong. Invasion of the quarter snatchers! Ianet Earth was invaded not by green monsters but by strange machines which beeped, whined, and swallowed quarters - the dreaded video machines! They quickly took over obscure corners in supermarkets and restaurantsg they even inhabited entire rooms, called arcades. Defender, PacMan, Asteroids, Centipede, Space Invaders, and Donkey Kong were but a few of their names. Tidbits 21