Dumas High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Dumas, AR)

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Same, But Different Another Year At DHS New Teachers New, New, New RING! . . . RING! . . . RING! . . . Yes, those were school bells. 8:10, August 31st, on a Monday morning - prime time for all DHS'ers who were footloose and fancy free during the summer months to get back into the same old routine of another grinding school year. Remember when you used to say, Mom, I don't want to go to school ! There's just nothing for me there. It will be the same old boring school! Why go? Nothing's changed! ? Well, that wasn't the case with 1988. You could not tell the faculty and Sleeping on the school floor was definitely a new experience for DHS students. They did separate before the lights went out however. New Principal at DHS, David Rainey. The DHS ALL-STAR students helped the band form a spirit line at Dollarway. 6 CHANGE v, Wx administration without a score card there had been so many changes. Don McHan was now Superintendant. David Rainey was Principal and Calbert Brewer was Assistant Principal. There were 10 new teachers - Harris, Meeks, Gill, May, Hunt, Tate, Gentry, Farmer, Appleberry, Sherrill - plus two student teachers. We all got the chance to spend two funfilled days and two sleepless nights at DHS during the ALL-STAR retreat in September. Some 10th graders found out about AC, an unwelcomed change for them. ' Smaller class sizes proved to be a welcomed change. In the past classrooms BULGED with an average of 30 students, however, this year, class sizes were down to an average of 24. Choir was a new course offered for the first time in a number of years. It proved to be a hot item as boys as well as girls signed up. ANOTHER new STOP sign, Tidwe1l Field cat paws on the street, a new look and sound from the band, afternoon pep rallies, these and many more changes made '88 a year to remember.

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v ,- . sw Suzanne Bryan, Mary Margaret Farmer, and Erica Walt wore the ever-so-popular ankle length skirts. These students wore the bright,bold colors that illuminated the halls at DHS. Dorothy Miles, Tamika Jones, Tammy Fisher,Tammy Clemmens, and Dawn Bradley had the look wearing the oversized sweaters. Scott Mooreland, Barry Wood, and Jackie Ashcraft made their fashion statement wearing pretty in pink . fb Qf7T'W 45- - T9 iiigg. 5

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The ALL-STAR program not only brought about a change in the student body then, but hopefully a change for the future. ft G I CHANGE .I - jv