J J Pearce High School - Mustang Yearbook (Richardson, TX)

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In carrying out necessary drill procedures, student council members are required to use different kinds of emergency materials. Special service principal Mr. Dale Lowder teaches senior Iohn Heye how to use the portable generator. lCrawford1 aking precautions Students take part in drill programs Every year, tornadoes kill dozens nationwide, and fires kill hundreds in Texas alone. To reduce the risk of possible casualties should such a disaster strike here, the student council, along with principal R. H. Stamps, set up a system which took the students out of danger. Fire drill procedures took the students from the building and regrouped them in predesignated areas on the campus. For tornadoes and other catastrophes, the students were lined along the inside walls of the ground floor while the student council's disaster drill volunteers ob- tained flashlights and first-aid kits and secured the portable generator. Most teachers saw these drills as necessary evils. 'Taking time out of class is a nuisance, but it's better than being caught unprepared in a fire. Mrs. Rachael Faubion said. Students, however, held a more positive view of the interruptions. These drills give you a chance to talk with your friends for a minute, or get in some last-second studying for that quiz next period, junior Caroline Venza said. tTrentl 32 X Student Life-Drills

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step at a time fr- Following the rules -.--rw -un Get in your seats before the bell from the simple job of bringing rings, the teacher said. Rules, at materials to class to remaining in home and especially at school, their seats. Students who didn't . were just a part of life. From the follow rules and got caught went '1 time your mother told you Stop through a series of disciplinary coloring the wallsnto the time your acts: counseling, detentions, and dentist told you how to take care of finally In-School Suspension. your dentures, you had to follow Formerly, a limited number of 10 someone else's regulations, to 12 students, which included At school everyone lived with junior high and high school, could rules - in class, at lunch, in the be in ISS at one time. Now only halls and even in the parking lot. Pearce students are allowed to be Girls were told not to wear dresses in ISS in unlimited numbers. The or skirts more than two inches most common reasons that above the knee, but were often students were in ISS were truancy , seen walking around the halls and tardies, Ms. Kay Skinner, the wearing them. Also, students were ISS supervisor, said. y not supposed to leave the school Some students believed there f without permission. Iuniors and was both a good side and a bad 5 Seniors were able to park in the side to having rules. Asjunior Paul ' i parking lot, but each had to have a Fallon said, The best part of hav- sticker and abide by the Vehicle ing rules was breaking them! , Information Sheet . lMedlockl 3 Most students followed the rules l X ? ., E 4 I s R i , , , ' .S Q , 2 Q 'Hs wr V ws. . 3 - f K ai ,f is 'F 't of' . 1 I i ' . at i ts t 'stss.. 2 1 I '. X itaf i i K qs' 5 N 2, . 5 - 'N-. , .... M. -...,.,,..,,,,,....,,.,,,,,6..,,M,.,,s..,,,,,,,,,, I During homecoming week, exceptions to the dresscode were allowed. Senior David Goss shows his spirit by dressing for Hal- loween, which was during homecoming week. lCrawfordl Rules f Student Life X 31

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,Q t. ri Y p F' STUDY CENTER .1 , MW Some student council members were in- volved in the drill program. Senior Dolynn Thomas waits in her assigned position waiting for further instructions. lBryan1 Iunior David Cripe leads another student in line to collect their equipment in preparation for a drill. lCrawf0rdl Drills-Student Life X 33