Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Fund Ra1Sl11g 1 Shirley Conklin, Susan Pillsbury, Gus Pillsbury listen intently to performer Rick Presley. Mr. Presley went into the audience several times to give his show the per- sonal touch. 2 Bobbi Zeigler and Rick Latimer kicker dance at a country and western music assembly. These assem- blies gave us a chance to cast away our inhibitions and dance in front ol the school. Sharon Gonzales Bobby Gordon Jennifer Gordon Robin Goss Laura Grabovvske Gary Gratten 3 fp' Richard Gratten Suzan Haggard Sandy Hampton Steven Hanes Kathy Hankins David Hanson Kathy Hardin Hope Heffel' G90VQe Harris Susan Harris Mike Hatfield Susan Hausmann assembliesfseniors

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1 Our friends were the best entertainment, just sitting around talking, playing games, and having fun. Boyd Harvey, Philip Zerbitz, Walter Ubridge, Paul Ayres, Bobby Ibanez, and Greg Gamen compete in knife throwing game during lunchbreak. 2 Bobby Jones, Kim Powers, Paula Theide, and Mike Welbes enjoy dinner at the Magic Time Machine before the prom. The restaurants atmosphere and menu made it one of the most unique places in town. 3 The Vikettes were professional and talented, and often the finest entertaine ment around. DeAnn Perry shows off her dancing ability during the Spring Show. 4 Foreign language classes let us know something about cultures other than our own. Kim Feille and her partner do a Mexican folk dance in Ms. Donaho's Spanish class. Learning Social Skills without paying a cent. Biggies like - Gone With the Wind , Patton , and The Ten Commandments. Networks competed with first run movies, producing enormously popular made for T.V. movie series Roots , Rich Man, Poor Man , Captains and Kings , and Once An Eagle. We went out to escape from school and the continual routine of learning. But! learning carried over into our nightlife. We acquired the standard social skills, how to make friends and fit in with your favorite group, and the socially acceptable do's and don't's of a teenage society. We learned the rules of sex and dating, complicated though they were. Not knowing what to do or say in an awkward situation, wondering how to keep hisfher attention, scraping your brain to find a topic of conversation that would interest both of you. How far a couple should, could, or would go on a first date depended a lot on their standards. Dating or going steady generated pressure. Many adolescents experimented, and learned, sometimes the hard way. Many others decided to wait until they matured more to face the problems, conflicts, and consequences of sex. We learned to deal with money, making decisions between this movie, that favorite girl, or another splurge on new clothes. We mastered the ticklish art of manipulating our parents. We learned to be persuasive, tactful, and above all, subtle. When the purse was low on cash or we already promised our gang we could definitely get the car, all the charm we ever possessed had to be dredged up and applied to a cause dear to all teenage hearts, conning our parents. Seeing ourselves in action. Now, that's entertainment. entertainment 29

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Shows ssemblies had been around since our grade school days but by the time we reached Lanier, inflation had hit. Sponsored by money hungry clubs and organizations, prices rose to fifty cents, with one concert skyrocketing to a dollar. HECE sponsored a fashion show for lVlargo's la Mode with Lanier students as the models. The Vikettes featured in their Spring Show a pantomine about the song Lucille, a dance routine to Southern Nights, their award winning ladder routine and a tap dance by Jan Jay, Leslee Roberts, Gayla Griggs, and Robin Goss. More dancing surfaced when, near the end ofthe year, the Hartford Ballet Company from Hartford, Connecticut visited. NHS brought the rock group Rabbit which was a big hit and Student Council presented us with the Country Edition, much to the delight of Lanier's kicker crowd. Another of the Student Councils contributions was the Lanier A Cappella Choir, who put on a Christmas Concert in the gym, Later inthe year the Yearbook staff showed a slide presentation as a preview to the '77 Viking and Rick Presley sang the top-forty as he got whiplash in his hips trying to imitate Elvis. To fill in the empty spaces there were several basketball and volleyball games, plus the coaches' twangy imitations of Hank Williams and Charlie Pride. But whether we used the thirty minute period to smoke a cigarette, get some munchies at the store or to really see the variety of assemblies, it was worth it just to get out of class. 3 The Hartford Ballet gave us a beautiful and unique type of assembly. Here, the dancers play little kids on a rainy afternoon. 4 We came to assemblies to see a protessional perform, but of ten found ourselves the center of attention. Darrell Bowie gets a chance to show the school his Iooniness. 5 Darlene Kutach gets a kiss from singer Flick Presley, This assembly brought a performer from the Las Vegas night clubs to the gym.