Keller High School - Chief Yearbook (Keller, TX)

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Ageless hobb attracts MICHELLE SHOEMAKER N tr sraffwriter Lots of people like to hunt. Senior David Lamb doesn't, but his falcon does. Lamb started training falcons last year. The combination between liking birds and wanting to train them is what brought my attention to falconry, Lamb explained. With the help of Steven Har- ris, a veterinarian at Roanoke, he trained Biarmicus, which he bought this year for 55600. Biarmicus is a lanner falcon from North Africa. There are only 20-30 Lan- nets in the United States. This summer Lamb will get a Red Tail hawk for which he had to apply. In order to get it, he had to test and pass an in- spection. The requirements for training falcons include having' a pigeon loft and spending a half hour free time every day with the hawk. The flying season is from September to April. During the summer, the hawk will go through a molting stage so it won't be able to fly. The instruments Lamb uses to train falcons include a telemetry, guitar pick, bells and a leather hood. Lamb attaches a guitar pick to the tail and, with the telemetry, he can pick up the position of the bird. When a falcon lands on his prey and kills it, the falcon usually makes no noise. To know where it is, Lamb places bells on the bird's feet so he can hear the jingling. Flying Higb - Senior David Lamb and his falcon Biarmicis practice different maneuvers on the high school campus. senior The leather hood covers its head so the bird won't ,think it is in danger and will calm down. Falconry is very interesting but falcons are just like little kids and it itrainingb can get very frustrating at timesf' says Lamb. Biarmicus weighs a pound and a half and the Red Tail hawk that Lamb will get, will weigh between three to four pounds. Their weight is really tricky because if they'te too light, they get very aggressive. When they weigh too much, they get into the habit of flying away for a period of time, Lamb said. Falconry is reminiscent of a much earlier era, but the hobby still has its followers. Renaissance '86 35

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Remembering the school year . . . 'Rebirth of spirit' bonds students CONTINUED FROM PAGE 33 State UIL competitors included Baronda Willson, ready writing, Deb- bie Yaniko, informative speakingg Bryon Sutherland and Mari Felton, team debateg and Bobby Ross in headline and news writing. At the district level, UIL com- petitors won 23 medals in 14 events to boost the school to its fourth straight first place trophy. SPORTS The Varsity football team highlighted an otherwise dismal season by winning big over archrival Grapevine, in October. The Indians beat the Mustangs 35-14 in the team's last meeting as district com- petitors. Both Keller and Grapevine will be switched into the class AAAAA for the 1986 season. The cross country teams set school records in the fall when both the boys' and girls' teams made it past district competition into regionals. Lead by junior runner Renee Rowell and coached by Marcum Dick, the girls placed tenth in state among other AAAA schools. For the third year in a row, Rowell also qualified for the state track meet in two running events. Coach Ralph Ferguson's boys' var- sity baseball team boosted one of the state's top offensive threats. Despite miss- ing the playoffs, the team ranked as high as fifth in state at one time. OTHER EXTRA CUR- RICULAR ACTIVITIES l No Bozos - State Bound. Inspired by this motto and goal, the marching band received a division one rating at the UIL state marching contest for the first time in November and received a ninth place finish. The band took top honors at the Cleburne Marching Festival, district and regional marching contests on its way to the top. The Indianettes proved once again in March that 'nobody does it better. The drill team dominated its competi- tion in a national drill team contest in San Antonio. The officers won sweepstakes, supersweepstakes, best choreography for a novelty routine and best choreography for a high kick routine. The squad won sweepstakes, supersweepstakes, best choreography for a prop routine, best technique and best in class AAAA divi- sion. The Indianettes out performed 78 other teams for one of five spots in the winner's cirde. The Wigwam, the student newspaper, received the highest rating 34 Renaissance '86 from the Interscholastic League Press Conference in March for the first time in many years. The paper won the ILPC Award of Distinguished Merit and two individual achievement awards in newswriting and layout. Drama and debate placed two members in the Texas Forensic League's state competition in San Angelo. Senior Kelly Perkins ranked fifth in oratory and senior G. Scot Lackey ranked sixth in dramatic interpretation. Numerous clubs and organization members and officers represented the school at state and national conventions during the year. Much of the excitement of the year, however, goes beyond description . . . Cheering at a pep rally and crying at the senior assembly. Cramming first period for a major exam second period and staying up all night to finish a research paper. Simply saying hi to friends in hallways during passing period and walking a boy friend or girlfriend to class. Words, mere sentences, cannot ade- quately describe the many things that made this year special and unique. Luckily, in the hearts and minds of those who had experienced it, the spirit of the renaissance lives on . . .

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New Releaxer - junior Danyak Arafat checks over some albums that are now released on compact digital discs. Looking Around -- Freshman Mike Loftus examines the selection of music offered at Camelot Music in the North Hills Mall. Arch-enemies C 9 Porn rock DIANA WILLIAMS graphics editor While the Road Runner is being chased by Wile E. Coyote during Satur- day morning cartoons, Twisted Sister's lead singer Dee Snider may be found dodging his father's attempts to catch him in the We're Not Gonna Take It video on another channel. Like the antics in the Road Runner animations, Snider picked each stunt for his video from his personal collection of cartoons. So, as the Coyote is the Road Runner's arch enemy, the Parents Music Resource Center may too be the arch enemy of not only Snider, but to all musicians who write, sing, or perform to, as Senator Fritz Hollings calls it, rock porn. In a Senate committee hearing held September 19, Snider negated claims by the PMRC that his video was violent, but that it was simply a cartoon with human actors playing variations on the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote theme. After a half-hour, Snider was dis- missed and thanked for his witness chair on Capitol Hill. 36 Renaissance '86 collide as All U . QR if an lt meets its match The PMRC, to say the least, was still not happy. Co-founders Mary Elizabeth Gore and Susan Baker say that they will not be happy until 'questionable lyrics are printed on albums and tapes, until rock concerts are rated for content, until albums with objectionable covers are racked separately or placed in plain brown wrappers, until MTV 'brackets' certain videos for late-night viewing only and until lyrics are included with albums and tapes sent to radio stations. Already, the PMRC has been responsi- ble for albums which are sexually explicit or promoting violence, suicide, rape, the occult or drugs to be marked Parental Guidance: Explicit Lyricr. Record com- panies agreed to put the PG label on albums and tapes, but now the PMRC wants the rating changed to R because it feels that the PG rating has been watered down by the movie industry. Stanley Gortikov, president of the Recording Industry Association- of America, believes that the PG rating was as far as the industry could go. The industry could not print the lyrics on the albums and tapes because music publishers, not rercord companies, own the rights to the lyrics. The industry could not send radio sta- tions the lyrics for the same reasons. It cannot put plain brown wrappers on the albums or rack them separately because that is the territory of the retailers. It cannot control the actions of per- formers because the best control . . . is parental supervision of the concert attendance of their children. Musicians have formed the Musical Majority to stop rating records, which to them is a form of artistic censorship. Members include Prince, members of Kiss, Duran Duran and Don Henley, among others. The PMRC says that they don't want to outlaw rock and roll or to change it, but to just strip it bare for parents to see and to rate objectionable things. They feel that what they are doing is no wa j censorship. So, just as the Road Runner hasn't seen the last of Wile E. Coyote, rock and roll hasn't seen the last of the PMRC.