East Central High School - Hornet Yearbook (San Antonio, TX)

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HAVE A SMILE. Alt work and no play isn ' t good for the mind, or the funny bone. Marilyn Morris sports a winning smile white taking a dive into her books: not everyone is as enthusiastic, though. GO MIKE GO. After stopping off at the water fountain, Mike Snoga quick- ly scurries to his fifth period French class. Before long the five minutes be tween classes seems more like two or three. TICK TOCK, TICK TOCK. 7 cant get it to stay together; it keeps popping apart! Rudy Hernandez tells Ann Ma- rie Tovar and Lydia Cortez. Economic classes spend much time learning by the process of doing. MONOPOLY ANYONE? Enjoying a day of San Antonio Monopoly in Eco- nomics gives Yukiko Holliday and Kimberly Faircloth a chance to expe rience financing firsthand without re- ally messing up in life. dou i rUc ACADEMICS ACADEMICS 217 .. . Academics

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Here it was once again, the yearbook staffers most dreaded time of the year, summer. Why, summer? Summer was supposed to be a students ' favorite time of the year. Summer for a staff member, however, meant ads. Even if you were a veteran yearbook member ads still held a slight fear for you. Most people can ' t handle rejection once, but when you sell ads you face it W to 15 times in one day. The veteran did, how- ever, have a slight edge because most of the shyness he or she had when joining the staff quickly disappeared by the end of the first year. It was easiest to start with the people you knew, the people you knew would buy an ad. It could have been your moth- er, your father, or your neighbor. It was a way to boost the ego and make you con- fident before embarking on the perilous JOURNEY OF REJECTION. Once that option was gone it was time t a£C acU ctfi. to pound the pavement, time to find a few compassionate people who would either buy an ad immediately or at least give you a wonderful indefinite maybe. Store after store, door after door, rejection after re- jection, until finally you heard the most wonderful three letter word in the English Language YES. Those three little letters that came so infrequently meant so much to hear. Those three little letters made all the re- jections seem of little significance. Those three little words made you happy, the sponsor happy, the buyer happy, and most of all the accountant happy because the money would allow the yearbook to pay its bills so there would be a yearbook. The ads not only made it possible to sell the yearbook to the students at a decent price, but it allowed the community and its people to be recognized for their efforts to support the school.

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f cademics means work COLLEGES i.Stanfobp Univ. CCftUlF.) 3. YAl£ Univ- CCONN) •Princeton Univ- ( ■) r 5. Univ. Op CAlif. At %RkCEu£.V 7. Duk£ Unw, 8.LANIV- OP CHicAGiO f LL ) .UNlV- OF MiCHi AM At Ann A 2BC i2 o. BR-Otv ' N Univ, Long, endless hours, hard work, unlimited dedication, what do all these things add up to and were needed to get somewhere in this world? Ac- ademics. Academics were an impor- tant part of every teen ' s life those days. Not so much sress was put on sports and those who were in sports were then equally concerned with their academics, and SAT score. Academics are an impor- tant part of our future espe- cially if we want to go to col- lege and make something of ourselves someday, Monique Moore, senior, said. Like sports, academics took up a meyor amount of time. There were so many scholar- ships and newly made require- ments to get into college that everyone was into their studies. Academics play a major role in your life. It shows the potential of what someone is capable of doing, Danny Florez, junior, said. Everyone was anxious to spend time at school and some even said they liked to learn. Academics had become a competitive field and everyone had a different style. I feel that academics is a reflection of what you can do. If you don ' t complete your studies you are obviously ir- responsible and lazy. If you thrive on your academics, you feel better about yourself and you aren ' t labeled as a ' dummy ' , Arthur Saenz, jun- ior, said. Deelalna Stowe Amims AC lI £ CS z GZ OEKia © lLuul£ ' U Academics by Deelaina Stowe . . . 216