DeSoto High School - Eagle Yearbook (Desoto, TX)

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hat is your favorite. part of pep rallies? | 1. teacher and senior skits 2. getting out of class MEMBERS OF the freshmen class seem puzzled and amazed at their first pep rally for the game against Lancaster. Photo by Jim Hoenig TAKING PART in the Homecom- ing pep rally, junior Angela Sar- geant plays one of the newer in- Struments in the band. Photo by Jeff Landwehr 10 Pep Rallies

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W SCHOOLS always mean ij’ rules. Freshmen Lisa Ellis, thael White, and Lydia Frizzell ij2n to Mr. Archer’s class rules. Ato by Randy Vonderheid j 6ST had to use the map to find everything,” said freshman Amy Buckner about the beginning of school. While some students had trouble finding newly built classrooms, others had trou- ble finding their lockers, es- pecially when they got one of the extras that was not in the class hall. But being lost wasn’t the worst part of it. The scariest part of the first day of school for most ALTHOUGH SCHOOL has just started, yearbook staff member Teresa Mooney started working on the yearbook before school started and is already checking pictures for a spread. Photo by Randy Von- derheid of the students was to find out that they did not have any friends in any of their classes. Walking into new classrooms hoping to find a friend or a familiar face seemed to be the exception rather than the rule, espe- cially with over 1,700 stu- dents in school. Sophomores were excited to come back to school be- cause they moved a notch up that ladder, and although they were still underclas- Beginnings don’t al ways : leave best impressions men, they were happy not to be freshmen. I was excited because I wasn’t a freshman any- more,’ said sophomore April Nesuda. However, upperclassmen were also ready for the new school year to start. Al- though they felt it was their best year, they also knew the sooner it started the sooner it would end and the future would begin. By Tammy Randall First Day 9

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.S THE students look on, cheer- -ader captain Heidi Huckeba pre- ents Danny Walker with his ward as Cheerleader Beau. Photo y Jim Hoenig LAG CORPS members show a 'rize-winning routine at the Irving AacArthur pep rally. Photo by im Hoenig AFTER BEING named as Drill Team Beau, senior Trevor McBryde gets a hug from Eaglette captain Shandalyn Spillman. Photo by Jim Hoenig C6 pep rally is a pep ral- Aly is a pep rally” could have been said about any other year, but this year was different. Several fac- tors made this year’s pep rallies different. Probably the biggest change was the move to the new gym which gave stu- dents more room to cheer. Besides the normal methods of spirit-raising, which in- cluded drill team dances, cheerleaders, flag corps, drum corps, band, and Showstoppers, teachers got into the act-literally. Weekly assembly sees changes Faculty members, led by English teacher Mrs. Susan McDonald, began perform- ing skits each week that per- tained to that week’s theme. Not to be outdone, the seniors took over the skit at the last pep rally and per- formed in a circus atmo- sphere. Finally, a new tradition began with pep rallies, the basketball season opened with one. All in all, this was the year that “pep” was back into “pep rally”. by Jennifer James “Senior Circus” Todd Rudsenske and Chuck Brizius make a special ap- pearance as the Tiger twins from Mansfield, the opponent for the night. Photo by Jim Hoenig ROUNDING OUT the Pep Rallies 11