Kilgore College - Ranger Yearbook (Kilgore, TX)

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Fleeting Year Offers Profusion of Possibilities The lazy days of summer had hypnotized us into thinking there was plenty of time before college registration. Then, BANG! IT started. The fleeting school year seemed never to slow. From the first week of fall registration until the spring semester’s finals we seemed, at times, to be racing up the down side of an escalator. By August Rangcrettc hopefuls were already beginning to stretch muscles in anticipation of try-outs. Members of the Ranger football team were beginning two-a-days with the ultimate goal of Garland Bowl! in their minds. Ranger Band members were picking up their instruments after months of nonuse. While the individual groups were preparing for the approaching year, everyone was gearing up for registration. Besides facing the endless lines at every turn, we attempted to get the classes we wanted at the hours we needed them. Then, after organizing schedules, we found even longer lines in the book store and could only hope that there wasn’t a shortage of textbooks. After “living” through these lines, we stood in the tuition payment line and wondered if we would survive that too. Making decisions about studies that may “affect our future succss” wasn’t easy. Lifestyles had to readjust to fit our new schedules. There was little time for sleeping late or spending lazy afternoons “just hanging out.” Gradually our lives settled down to a routine. But Still we rushed from class to class and prayed that we had the right books for the course. We stopped in break rooms to do some last minute cramming and tried managing a social life somewhere in our tight schedules. If fifteen to twenty semester hours wasn’t enough to challenge us, there were numerous clubs and organizations that caught our eye. We could join math science clubs, music clubs, business clubs, dance clubs, even a radio club! Sororities and fraternities came out in force, asking us to come to their coke and tea parties. The order of