Keller High School - Chief Yearbook (Keller, TX)

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-sf Ns? T'5fx9N i .N 1' Having fun? - Senior Barry Ryan doesn't seem to Gnd giving blood a very painful experience. Students give life Council sponsors blood drive, raises 154 pints Traffic fatalities claimed more than a few students' lives this year. Although not much can be done to alleviate the pain felt by the families of the victims or help those who died in the wrecks, students were able to help the survivors by giving not only support and encouragement, but also the invaluable gift of their blood. I feel like this is something small I can do to help the kids in the car wrecks. You feel so helpless because there's not much else you can do for them, said Student Council sponsor Mrs. Lisa Baker. The Student Council sponsored a blood drive on April ll in cooperation with the Carter Blood Center, There was a good turnout and 154 pints of blood were given to help the students in the wreck. Some students had to be turned away because they were either underweight or too young. Some of the students that were old enough to give were a little apprehensive. I was a little scared of the needle, said senior Amy Beck, but I felt that it was important to help the people. This apprehension also extended to a few of the teachers. It took Coach Beth Hobensack an hour and a half with her first period class pressuring her to give blood, but she gave because I felt that it was a worthwhile cause. junior Paul Brawer seemed to sum up the feeling of most of the students when he said, We've had so many accidents at the school lately and I feel I should do my part to help the students who need blood. -ALEX CHRISTIE Food anyone? - Student Council provided refreshments for the students who gave blood. Interesting? - juniorjill Cassillo reads some information on AIDS and what it has to do with giving blood during the blood drive. Blood Drive 41

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'Gnly a dirty ice ball . .' Mr. Halley's comet makes rare appearance BARRY RYAN if 1' staffwriter The visitor moved swiftly and silently through the black vacuum of space. Cut- ting through the silence on a predestined path leaving nothing but dust in its wake, it flew. This is not the first time it has been through this section of the solar system on its trek sunward. In fact, it takes this route quite regularly, every 77 years or so. The visitor begins to gain velocity as the powerful gravity of the sun pulls it nearer and nearer to its fiery realm. Believe it or not, the mysterious visitor is only a dirty ice ball called Halley's comet. Halley's comet is named for the English astronomer Edmund Halley. Before Halley made his investigations in- to the origin of comets, most people believed that comets appeared by chance and traveled through space in no set path. But Halley believed that comets belonged to the solar system and took definite paths around the sun at regular intervals. He found that the paths taken by certain comets in 1456, 1531 and 1607 were identical with the path of a comet ob- served in 1682. He decided that the same comet made all these paths. He correctly predicted that it would appear again in 1759, and at regular intervals thereafter. Historical records show that Halley's comet was seen as long ago as 240 B.C. It reappears every 77 years but the intervals can be two years longer or shorter. But Halley still didn't know where comets came from and a probable theory wouldn't be produced. for another three centuries. Astronomer jan Oort of the 40 Renaissance '86 Netherlands holds that comets were formed 4.6 billion years into the past when the entire solar system was a primordial soup of dust and gases. When the sun cooled, it blew particles away from the inner planets. Geological time changed the Earth and the planets closest to the sun. The outer planets remained as dust and gas with solid cores. The smaller particles continued to drift outward until they finally found a home in a huge shell surrounding the solar system. This shell is called the Oort Cloud after the astronomer who proposed the idea. Oort says there may be as many as 100 billion comets in the cloud. However, this theory still didn't ex- plain completely just how comets reentered the solar system. Oort was forced to revise and he explained his theory. Oort then theorized the existence of a star, called Nemesis, whose orbital path swings it into the shell at a rate of about five per year. Another astronomer, Richard Muller, proposed that it may have been a few of these comets that built the earth and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Muller says that the earth is probably pelted with comets every 30 million years. These same comets that destroyed the dinosaurs may have been reponsible for providing the necessary ingredients for life in its boiling gases. Comets are made up of fusing a light spectrumh water, methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and fifty percent dust. As the comet moved silently through space and back outward to where it had originated, the masses of earth sat and watched in hopeful anticipation of some point in time 377 years or so from now.

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Aim, focus, shoot - Photography's a snap Qrightb? Photography looks and sounds deceptively simple, However, when the photographer not only takes the picture but is in charge of developing the hlm and printing the final product, no less than a million things can go wrong Cat least that's the way it seemsb. Not only must photographers devote their time to attending the numerous events staged during the year by the faculty and students, they must burrow themselves in the darkroom amidst smelly chemicals before their goal is achieved. CPhotographers must be aware of everything from lighting condi- tions to the temperature of the chemicals they mix. Anything and everything can go wrong.J To keep our photographers from complete despair, we offered them this double-page spread to showchase their best efforts. Here students can see the expertise of our shutterbugs. We hope you enjoy their work. - LOREE VARDAS and NAN LEE Preparingfor the bun! - Laura Sunley 4 i Being fool - Mike Loftus 42 Photography Showcase Down the up Jlairraxe - Andy Criss