John H Reagan High School - Spur Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Tumbler Donna Freytag awaits the signal to do handsprings across the football field, a feat she performed before every game. Unenthusiastically, Hal Zocheri looks for petrified dinosaur dung on a geology field trip to Llano. During the geology class ' s field trip to Lla legs at a highway rest stop. 3, Jeff Jones stretches his Honor GuarJ members Patrick Flynn. James Smith, Anthony Garza, Howard Featherling and Ray Wilson stand ready to present the colors before the football game against LBJ. o -a CO D D

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X30 c O SssssiasH Reagan: setting for soap S3 o ! Students excited Thf girls ' basketball leam was at war with the cheerleaders, the Fine Arts were en ious of the athletics and so on, and so on. E ery soap opera has to ha e . . . II f interrupt this program to hriiig you a special iieus report: For the first time in five years the seniors of Reagan High School hate bad the highest attendance of all four grades. Hon did the seniors feel about this achievement ? Embarrassed, commented senior Pat Monroe. More on this and other items throughout the annual. ... its conflicts. And Reagan had its share. There was the never-ending conflict between Reagan and LBJ; there were students rebelling against the new attendance policy; and there were the no- names asking to be seen in Radar and Spur. All of these caused some excitement in the little town of Reagan. They were talked about, then forgotten in the event of a newer, more exciting conflict. And. as every soap opera has to have its conflicts, it has to have its triumphs. .Stay tuned . . . Vjrsity cljeerltuJer Lisa Gehrke hjit team pUy Killeen. matches the foot- The jreshman class hung posters lo show the up- perclassmen (hat (hey had spirit, loo. I he pii

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Students ask for emotion X30 C c 0) n. O Regional loss brings tears We beat LBJ, we had the highest attendance in the district, and we raised our SAT scores. What more could a school ask? Actually only one thing, a thing vital to the survival of any soap opera — emotion. All the questions, conflicts and triumphs weren ' t worth anything unless we could laugh, cry, or worry about them. So we laughed at the Victory Dance, cried at the regional loss, and worrie d about what tomorrow might bring to the seniors. We all became swept up in each other ' s emotions and lives. We followed Jason Watter ' s boxing com- petitions, worried when Karry Bell hurt his leg, and related to the freshmen ' s fear at the first pep rallies. All these emotions tied us together and bound the town of Reagan into a set where we were all actors, each with a separate, yet important role. To see how we survived the year, just turn the pages . . . Carol Zchieicht roHs over her drum as part of [he As a Student Council oieeciQg, junior representative Reagan Beat routine at the Angleion pep rally. Mike Brown listens to plans for a Homecoming dance. Head football coach Wally Freytag gives his opinion of that night ' s Reagan-Angleton game to a pep rally crowd. K ' orkhig aking assignment. Anthony Orteg.i and Brian Works drop cookies onto a cookie sheet.