John Marshall High School - Lex Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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WARMING UP Getting on eorly stort on his typing drills, sophomore Gerord Groy does his best despite injuites, Business, os one of Motsholl's largest departments, ottrocted mony students who wished to leorn procticol skills, -it V35 TIME EGR GETTING IT TCDGETHER The countdown begins. Ten minutes until the first bell rings to stort the doy. Hurried people fill the libroty looking up vo- cobulory words ot the lost min, ute, getting the moth ossignf ment due yesterdoy, or just cotching up on thot lost piece of gossip. Holls ore full of people scot- tering in oll directions, to the librqry to return o mqgozine, to the English Resource Center to return orticles, to the cofeterio for q quick donut, or to the student store for condy bors ond Skittles. The bell rings ond in o motter of seconds the holls ore empty except for o few strogglers. So- clolizing is forgotten os students get down to the business of 14 if Academics Division leorning, Invitotion to Excellence , submitted by English Deport- ment Choirmon Lyle Meyer, wos chosen os o theme for Morsholl ocodemics. This theme wos odopted to emphosize MorshoIl's ocodemic quolity. As stote colleges considered roising entronce requirements to include more moth, English, ond sociol studies, the oco- demic theme become even more oppropriote. Chollenging college preporotion courses were offered in moth, humon- ities, ond longuoge orts. Stu- dents were even oble to toke Comp 6 for college credit. Chonging with the times, Morsholl's ocodemic kept in poce. it:-.... TALK IT OVER Discussing serious mottets, dents which is importont to the progrom. In ESL teocher Greg Ellors ond Southeost Asion oddition to schoolwork, Ellors frequently student Chhun Heng Loo demonstrote the counseled ESL students in oll oreos to help communicotion between teochers ond stu- moke their odjustment eosier

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I think I'm allergic to at of : WAKE UP Shutting off his olorm clocls be- fore he heods for the shower, sophomore Dorren Dryden is reody to stort the doy. STRETCHING Getting loose before proctice Metres Corolyn Lowery, sophomore, Rhonda Dovis, junior, Deonne Jones, sen- ior, ond Jung Lee, senior, woit for odvisor Sue Kennedy, 6:80 om, reods the luminous number on the olorm clocls. A hond gropes for, ond eventuolly finds, the snooze button. When the olorm goes off ogoin, the sleeper reluctontly drogs himself from his comfort- oble refuge. Eyes borely open ond hurting from the light, he stumbles toword the bothroom. Getting up in the morning wos something no one vvonted to do, but everyone hod to, Most people foced the doy ot obout 6180 dm., but o few unfortunotes hod to get up even eorlier. The M-ettes in porticulor hod to get up before most people in the morning. I'm not reolly owolse in the morning, exploined senior M- ette Trino McMillon. I just lsind of foll out of bed. Even people thot didn't hove to get up until os lote os o hod trouble coming to life. l'm so sleepy in the morning, comploined junior Allison Honson, When the music on my olorm clocls goes off ot o, l throw my pillow ot it ond go bocls to sleep. Once people wolse up, they still needed to get to school. Those without o driver's license hod to odjust their schedule oround Tri-Met's ond stond ot the bus stop, roin or shine. Others often got rides from porents, Emborrossed becouse Mom usuolly hod rollers in her hoir, they tried to be os inconspicuous os possible while getting out of the cor. If the student did hove o license, it vvos more thon lilsely thot he ended up driving the fomily cot, which usuolly meont trying to hide the big stotion wogon ot the end of the porl-:ing lot, The studentf owned X 119 ond Peugeots tended to end up closer to the building thon the fomily owned Vollsswogen buses ond Psombler wogons, Moving if 13

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