Lamar High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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Anticipated days signal summer's end To the students, the new computer scheduling seemed to create more problems than it solved. Here the counselors wait patiently while Larry Pike, Doug Allen and Tom Bost fill out schedule change request forms. if-A l ' '. E t v J I . 1 4 4 N . . r K! 3 ff .35 :ifr- With the computer scheduling, there were few things which remained unchanged from the old registration systemg one of these was the locker assignment table. Princhaal Sam Curlee and Vice Principal Weldon English try to find Mark Fritcher a locker that is close to all his classes. The summer passed quickly, bringing with it the anticipation of another school year. Along with the dreaded first day of school, two other days were also looked forward to, each in its own way, . . At four o'clock on August 16, the crowd was at it's usual impatient numbers, restlessly waiting for yearbooks. When the cart full of annuals was finally wheeled into the cafeteria, the students snatched their '78 Valhallas and flopped into seats to leaf through them, as the hanied annual staffers struggled to strike names from the alphabetized yearbook lists. As pens and books passed from one set of hands to another, more and more students drifted in, until the cafeteria was full of jean clad teen-agers laughing at pictures of themselves and their friends. Everynow and again comments could be heard rising from the various groups: uOh no, is that me? Let's see the sports! and Why is there so much writing? On August 20, the second day anived, not as enthusiastically anticipated as the first, but looked forward to all the same: it was the day the long-awaited computer-schedules arrived. As one walked up the front steps and down to the cafeteria, it seemed almost as though the system hadn't changed at all--that downstairs one could find tables full of teachers ready to sign one up for English, math or science. Walking into the cafeteria, however, changed that impression quickly. Instead of the familiar horseshoe-shaped rows of tables, there were only a few scattered sporadically throughout the cafeteria: the counselor's schedule pick-up tables, the locker assignment station, the car-sticker desk--and the complaint box. As the line of students filed patiently to the tables to receive their printed-out schedules, howls of dismay rang through the cafeteria: I took that class last year! I haven't got a lunch period! That thing signed me up for four quarters of senior English! The complaint box for schedule change request forms quickly filled to overflowing. The only advantage to the new system was that it took far less time to registerg most students were through in less than an hour, instead of the usual two or three hours. Soon, though, the lines trickled down to nothing, and registration was over--as was the summer. There remained-now only one more day to anticipate--the first day of school. ANNUAL PICK-UP AND REGISTRATION ll

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