Killeen High School - Kangaroo Yearbook (Killeen, TX)

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We Were Constantly Being lvloved. . . What's going to happen to us? We were thrust into an atmosphere of split senior schedules, tracked classes, and division lines. Alex Haley's ROOTS had made the nation aware that we had back- ground. We were discovering that we had our own ROOts. We were being upROOted. . . Everything is messed up. My friends are going to Ellison. What is happening to us? Time has caught up. C. E. Ellison will open in the fall of 1978. It seems as if it were yesterday that Elvis was sta- tioned at Fort Hood, but he, like old Kil- leen, is now gone. Once where unity was found in a sea of maROOn and white, a sense of rivalry will be found. 6-Opening HARDLY recognizable without new expressways, trees, and buildings is Killeen High School ten years ago. A major change in Killeen is the comple- tion of US 190, which is considered one of the best highways in Texas. STUDENTS rarely see an empty hall unless they are taking a make-up test.

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CONSTRUCTION on Ellison began in February of 1977 and would hopefully be finished by August of 1978. LARGE shopping malls have sprung up where trees and grass once grew. THE once clear view of the first high school is now blocked by busi- nesses, lights, and gas stations on Avenue D. T - I ,. I -4 ...T A W W 1' 1 vi fi Opening-7