Del Valle High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Del Valle, TX)

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Annette Frenzel Belinda Frye Mary Gallegos Jesse Garcia Joe Garcia Frank Garza Michelle Garza Rebecca Gaspar John Gear Rebecca Gest Ezekiel Giddings Marva Gilliam Michael Gloria Daniel Gomez Dorothy Gomez Belinda Gonzales Dommic Gonzales Elizabeth Gonzales dm Young class observes school in new ways Counting her money out for her little brother, senior Raquel Calderon gives all that she can to freshman Daniel Calderon. Pholobj Ma a Hondcn..m 1 Being thrown into a school with many students and classes can often cause confusion and chaos among al- most all incoming freshmen. They were fa ced with the prob- lems of trying to find their way around an unfamiliar school campus, coping with new classes, and dealing with everyday high school life. It was scary because I didn ' t know anyone and I was always lost, freshman Jill Carter said. Entering freshmen were also faced with the reality of not knowing approximately three fourths of the student body. This challenged freshmen to make new friends among their peers. Most freshmen agreed, that the more upperclassmen they knew the bet- ter off they were. Because of thier age most en- tering freshmen were inferior in size compared to other studnets. Being physically smaller than their peers caused freshmen to feel slightly akward in their new situation. There are too many big peo- ple around here, freshman Danny Luedecke said. Overall, with unnerving pa- tience, freshmen became famil- iar with the daily schedule of high school life. Classes were easier to find and friends were easier to make. .After time they no longer felt awkward and blended into the crowd with or overwhelming easiness. Once you became fimilar with everything it was easer to get around and to make new friends, freshman Caryn Click said. After long months of trying to get used to everything, pretty soon the year was over with and the freshmen were no longer the young and inexperienced. 180 V Freshmen I I

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1 Donny Dye Carmina Elizondo Misty Eller Cynthia Ellis Jason English Dolores Esquivel Clint Estes Raquel Estrada John Fair Kristina Fett Tricia Fitzgerald Lucy Flores Monica Flores Sherry Foradory Dana Foster Alan Frazier Mark Frazier Pamela Freeman Transportation troubles earless underclassmen Talking with her friends, freshman Cyn- thia Perez discusses weekend plans on her Friday afternoon bus ride home. Pboto By Steve McCandless The mall, movies. Bomb- ers, and Yellow Rose Ar- cade were some of the hot spots for freshmen, but get- ting there was a problem for freshmen who were without a car or a driver ' s license. I usually get a ride from rel- atives, friends, or boyfriends, freshman Iris Hernandez said. While upperclassmen could go to games and other activities dur- ing the week more easily, the freshman usually sat at home. The weekends are the most exciting days of the week, my boyfriend takes me out, Annette Frenzel said. Getting out of the house and spending time with friends were common reasons for going out. Going out with our friends al- lows us to relieve stress from school and home, freshman Michelle Monreal said. But when it came to getting a ride to school, freshmen usually had to catch a ride on the good ole ' yellow school bus. You should see us in the morning. The bus comes to the ' Pea Patch ' and picks us up and then drops us off. Its a big bus but only three of us freshmen ride it, freshman Daniel Calderon said. Some freshmen were lucky enough to have older brothers or sisters who could drive them to school or at least let them hitch a ride after school. Stepping up on the bus, freshman Carolyn Barnes dreads the heat of the un-air-conditioned ride home. Phoio b Steve McCandless

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