Gurdon High School - Gurdonian Yearbook (Gurdon, AR)

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Starting Line On your mark, get set ... GO! Imagine yourself at the starting line get- ting ready to run the race. It's a long, tiring race taking you up hills and down hills, round and around, making you wonder if it will ever end. You may even be temp- ted to drop out before it's all over. School is a lot like a race. You start off at the starting line, making good grades and bad grades, taking test after test after test and won- dering if they will ever stop giving you home- work. The 1987-88 school year started off with foot- ball season, joining of clubs, commemorating the signing of the U.S. Constitution by the ring- ing of the bells and re- leasing red, white, and blue balloons, new stu- dents and teachers, a new principal and also a new superintendent. The race was on; we were off to a fast start. Whie leaving a Close-Up meet- ing, Janae Jester and nancy Long discuss the possibilities of going on the trip to Washing- ton, as Wendy Simpson and Beth Gills looks on. The Gurdon High School Band line up to get ready to march in the 1987 Homecoming Parade. 4 Opening

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A Few Opening Lines -ij m The pictures may be em- barassing, unusual, striking, or terribly nor- mal, but it is the true you. The yearbook is also a history book. On this page are the 1987 gradu- ates. They will be faced with many challenges down the line. Their his- tory at Qurdon High School has been written. For the 1988 graduates and underclassmen, the history either ends or continues in 1988. For the present, your interest is primarily in the pictures, but some- where down the line, we hope this book helps re- call the facts, the figures, and the faces of this school year. In our efforts to cap- ture the year, we begin with an ending - the 1987 graduates. Go along these lines with us, and outline the 1987-88 school year for Gur- don High School. David McClelland receives his diploma. Graduates look on as a speech is being given. A yearbook has two main functions: captur- ing candid shots of stu- dents being themselves and a pictorial history of the school year. It is “along these lines that we present the 1988 Gur- donian. Most will never look this way again. Some of you will never change.

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Being his usual self, Carlton Ollison tries to get Dana Gentry in trouble by talking to him in study hall. Sophomore Allison Thomas poses as a Go-Devil ready to 'whip the Stamps Yellowjackets. After the final bell, Waynette Beals is caught by surprise while walking down the hall. American Government stu- dents, Cindy Johnson, Shanna Marks and Rhonda Hansen re- lease red, white and blue bal- loons to commemorate the bi- centennial of the signing of the U.S. Constititution. Opening 5