Dickinson High School - Gator Yearbook (Dickinson, TX)

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Senior Diane Turner intensely watches rhe student council members plant the sevenrh tree in honor of the seven ostronaunts at the memoriol service. Junior Jerry Miles gives Coach Drake a piggy-back ride or the State Softball Tournament INSERT Freshman Adrian Doudreaux outrageously says, Hey man on his way ro doss Senior Dorren Dullington slyly watches the other girls walk by, bur as usual is cought. Closing 191

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Freshmon Mike Dickerson intently prepores fot o cross country tun in the District meet os he stretches his leg muscles. Intense. Webster ' s dictionary defines intense as something in o strained or extreme degree; excessive. Although one is more likely to hear Intense on the beach describing the last wove, it also applies to DH5 as well. This year, DH5 hos gone through numerous changes, both bad and good. All these changes have definitely put pressures on the students. They ore pressured to study, to conform, to begin doting, and to be independent. In 1986, House Dill 72 was just begin- ning to show its effects, and the students were feeling it. According to junior Troe Gilbert, The competition in my classes to be the best is intensive. Another new pressure was the TEAMS test, which Texas requires all juniors to take (and pass) before graduating. All these academic pressures were tak- ing their toll on the student body. However, sophomore Jennifer Rhoads was quick to put out that academic pressures are not the only ones students feel. We hove pressures from parents, peers, and teachers . For seniors, these pressures were even greater. Throughout the year seniors were faced with problems that underclassmen could not even begin to comprehend. Seniors hove Proctor ' s paper, a 6 week research project that can either moke or break a grade. Also, senior prom causes intensive worrying. Who to osk? What to wear? Where to go apres prom. But these fears seem small in com- parison with the intense anxieties con- cerning college: Whether to go or not, where to go, will I still be with my friends These fears only worsen as the year goes by. Also the high school years are where students will be likely to hove (and to lose) their first love, which causes an array of intense emo- tions. Sophomore Missy Quinrero said, When my boyfriend kissed me for the first time . . . that was intense! With the extra pressures of high school also comes the responsibility of maturing. Students are allowed to stoy out later, to experience new sen- sations, and grow into their own self. The 1985-86 school year will always be remembered as INTENSE. 190 Closing Freshmon Ginger Queen, sophomore Nonnefte Bolen. sophomore Dorren Goines, freshmon Melissa Morgan, ond freshmon Catherine Rogers wait patient- ly for the ceremony in honor of the seven Challenger crew members begin Seniors Chorles Smith ond Andy Williams lean on their tubes while waiting in line to cruz down the outrageous tube shoot in New Braunfels Junior Jerry Miles boogies with his new friend that he met ot the State Track Meet in Austin.

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Freshman Beth Bucsanyi soys. This is OREAD when rhe water pipes in her house burst. Bread. In fhe diaionary, bread is a food we use to ear with peanut buffer and jelly. However, rimes are chang- ing! Behind rhe walls of D.H.5., we gave ir a new sarcastic meaning. It is no longer used as a noun, but an adjective. During class, in the halls, and even on weekends bread was frequently heard. Ir was a descriptive word for people, a repetition of actions, or just plain old stupid things we did! Some of us plunged further into the meaning of bread, analyzing and creating new phrases. As each one of us added our own unique word, the list grew leaving behind stale, pop- tart, loaf, crumb, English muffins, yeast, croissant, and more. All of these words had their own meanings, some of which were in- side jokes. For instance, senior Scott Mader created the ever-popular phrase, Keep your pop-tarts in the package. Other phrases, such as sophomore Raymond Rodriquez ' s, I smell a loaf , and an unknown You ' re burning are now part of a strong growing vocabulary. Dread was used to describe things sarcastically but in a joking manner. It was used to describe some freshman behavior. Or, Being forced into a 4- A district, said senior Lisa Matocha. A weekend in the big town of Dickinson said junior Sheryl Buc- sanyi. House Bill 72 and homework on a Friday night, said sophomore Christie Allen. Nosey underclassmen trying to scald on upperclassmen, but in return get- ting laughed at, said senior Michele Martin. And one of our latest loafey actions, The Dickin- son Nine and their famous insult, the sit in! All of these and other words con be found in the cookbook of yeast, a historical memory. The people and events at DHS in the 1985-86 school year will always be remembered as IN- TENSE and BREAD. Ik Junior Amy Fisher shows her imitotion of o smushed loof of breod os stole people walk by 192 Closing Junior Alfredo Rodrieguez soys, I already know this longouge as he catches some zzz ' s in Mrs Brewster ' s Spanish 2 class Junior Cormen Trocey points her foce to look like a piece of Indian pottery the week of Cosmetology initiation.