Jersey Village High School - Falcon Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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ilence is golden The mime troupe was not very visible this year Cthey definitely were nc audiblelj, but they were active. The troupe gave a performance shortly befor Christmas for the handicapped at the Shriners' Hospital. The memory of all the smiling faces will always remain, reflected Ra Villaman. Through mime, you learn to control your body movements to create character within yourself, explained Cari Carty. l have learned about myself, my peers, and the human spectre, philosophized Amy Peterman. Back IL-R2 Jeff Johnsopn, SueOcker, Meike Stuedemann, Ray Villaman Front Janet Folma Amy Peterman, Mindy Baird lying for the stars The telephone rings shrilly, aburptly waking Mike Mendoza. He raises his head sleepily to peer at his alarm clock - it is 3:00 a.m. The phone rings again, snapping Mike further out of his sleep. Hello, Mike says into the receiver. Good morning, Mike, ah urgent voice says over the phone. This is Major Hicks. We have an important mission. Call your flight squadron. We will meet at 0400 hours and leave for Ellington Air Force Base. Mike, not fully awake, replaces the receiver. He quickly notifies his flight squadron, dons his uniform, and checks his mission sup- plies. At 4:00 a.m. he is no longer high school student Mike Men- doza, he is Cadet First Lieutenant Michael Mendoza. This is an account of an imaginary mission. However, Lt. Men- doza and his fellow cadets often must drag themselves out of their warm, comfortable beds to respond to an ELT - Emergency Locator Transmitter. When an aircraft crashes, the ELT is transmitted, explained Cadet Warrant Officer Lee Cioodell. A commercial aircraft will usually pick up the signal. They relay it to the air force base. The base then calls the squadrons in the area closest to the signal. Some of the CAP's responsibilities on these searching missions is to findlost or disabled planes which are transmitting an ELT, and administering first aid when necessary. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the ELT is a false alarm - a pilot working on his plane, for example, touches ti off, further ex- plained CWO Goodell. One time we knocked on the door of a house transmitting a signal, and all the cadets in their uniforms scared the pilot's wife! The CAP cadets do not perform all of their activities in uniform, however. They participated in many school functions - as ushers at football games, as flag-raisers at the school, and even as mus- cle men when the yearbooks needed to be carried upstairs! Members of the Civil Air Patrol prepare to takeoff on a mission. P 98 -C,... i fe' ca. i l . 'Wt ,gm

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Front Ilrj Jeff Johnson Jinja Cotton Bruce Carney Janet Folmar Julie Bridges Marty Kunz Rachelle Bjelcle Mindy Baird Steve Berube Back fl-rj: Ray Villaman, Andrea Klmler Carl Caryt Lynn Shirey Scott MacDonald Debra Hopener Meike Studemann Ginny McEvoy Damon Benson Stephanie Tremann John Walker, Mrs. Carlile, Bill 4Front fl-rj: Amy Peterman, Jeff Johnson, Stephanie Tiemann. Middle fl-rj: Mindy Baird, John Farrell, Julie Bridges. Back KI-rj: Mr. Hal Miller, Bruce Canrey, Ray Villaman, Marty Kunz, Cari Carty, Rachelle Bjelde, Scott MacDonald, Randy Bayer. Clubs -

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old and wet, but the show must go on. The field is silent except for the sound of the pounding rain and the quick drip, drip, drip of water falling from wilted featherbands. 100 Band members stand completely still, painfully straining to hear the drum majors, Anna Nevils, Norma Conner, and Kathy Muery, count off. Suddenly they're off, desperately trying to move through the mud-slicked field without slipping, as they attempt to get a decent sound from the saturated horns. What was supposed to be the Band's biggest money-making project, hosting the Marching Bands of America Contest, turned out to be a huge financial flop, thanks to Mother Nature. 24 bands from all over Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas came to com- pete, but no one else braved the storm to buy the special souvenirs or eat the concession stand's popcorn. But the big disappointment was placing fourteenth in the contest, not qualifying for the finals competition. Anna Nevils told, l cried my eyes out when l found out we hadn't made the top ten. Everyone in the other bands made us feel better though, even Cy-Fair and Cy-Creek, because they had sat through it and still thought we were W' l. Another student recalled, The Woodwinds were worried about their 4Brent HE-lil, CYUZ Castillo, Sam Galves, Leo horns being ruined evefyone Caesar, and Steve Berube form a very wet Tuba Corps., was trying to keep dry - that was impossible! Many members felt MBA was a success in uniting the Band. Mr. Sangermano asked us if we still wanted to go ahead and perform and the whole band yelled 'Yeslll' l think MBA helped bring the band closer together, said Ann Riley. 4Even starting out, Anna Nevils' boots were spattered with mud. 4Mike Rollins, Ben Koudelka, and Chris Yates play on through the rain. ' A-fJ?'f:i' L K ' Clubs -