Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Developing Hobbies and endurance during his nightly boxing session at the Outlaw Boxing Gym. Ann Barnes, Jacky Thonet and Tracie McKee refined the poetic movements of horseback riding through hours of practice, This paid off tor Ann and her horse Saturn who placed second and third in jumping contests. She and Jacky rode in the English style while Tracie preferred the Western style. Jeff Lewis raised, groomed and cared for St. Bernards. He went by his own self-taught methods and won some trophies. Russel Powers, another animal lover, collected and sold snakes. Russel said, The hardest thing is feeding them, they have to be force-fed until they realize the food is okay to eat. He brought a 5V2 ft. Bull snake to show Ms. Dolman's biology class. T-shirts and bumper stickers bearing the saying l'd Rather be Fishin' were all around Lanier and on the minds of Randy Filla, Bret Mann, Calvin Boyd and Gary Glaspy. Bret and Gary would watch the sunrise over the water as they waited patiently for the bass to bite. Seniors Mark Pennington and Harold lngersol explored the deep dark caves of Mexico. Both guys joined the Balcones Grotto Club, a branch of the National Spelunking Society, in their sophomore year. If I ,, x ui, They explored caves tor mapping or digging tunnels, but usually they went just for the fun of it. Rusty Fuller also explored deep dark regions, except his were underwater. Rusty, son ol a scuba diving instructor, began this stimulating activity at the age of eleven in Taiwan. He enjoyed the waters of Lake Travis along with the Texas and Florida coasts. James King built model rockets in his spare time, and launched them when the weather was nice. He got one to climb to the incredible height of 4,000 ft. Roberto Corrada competed with his rockets. He owned several models. Jeff Hope had a good time doing magic tricks to entertain people. He got interested in magic, an expensive hobby, when he was eight years old. He enjoyed the simple-looking tricks as much as he did the elaborate illusionary ones. Those who traveled were interested in excitement, adventure, ditterent cultures, history and people. Traveling near meant Flora Choate's, Paula Thiede's and Rose Borel's discovery of The Original Charlie's Eggrolls on the drag. Traveling lar, Debbie Rodgers visited the Parthenon in Athens, Greece. She also roamed the ancient streets ol Delphi and Rome where she 3 The astounding roar, speed and manueverability of John McAlpin's dirt 1 t bike kept him going, and his imagination flying high. Mud, water, even bad -1 1 weather couldn't keep John from practicing for Motocross races. 4 Rusty Fuller looks on with amazement as Roberto Corrado launches a - . h model rocket. Roberto once entered his rockets in National competition. Obbles and Interests 79

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Pleasing Ourselves tasted baci, a delicious chocolate candy with hazelnuts. Donnie Youngbloom went to Munich, Germany where he took in the Schwebing District, a lively center near the University in lvtunich. l-le also saw the Newschwanstein castle, which was copied by Walt Disney for Snow VVhite's fairytale castle. Travel was fun, be it to another country or East Texas to visit grandparents For some who didn't have the opportunity themselves to travel, different cultures were experienced in other ways. Lou Ann Bell collected stamps. Her grandmother worked for the UT Law School. She saved stamps and gave them to Lou Ann, who compiled them in her books. Laurie Sherrill traveled by way of books. She was constantly reading and learning that people in different areas of the world are similar yet different. Our talents inspired some of us to pursue them as careers or at least to help us on our way out in the real world, Tom Cher1auIt,a yearbook photographer, worked at Texas Camera. l-le was awarded Best Salesman of the Year in DE. l-le learned to develop negatives and prints. l-le even set up a color darkroom in his home. Shirley Conklin had lun in the kitchen. She enjoyed baking exotic dishes and planning lun-type meals. She began 1 42 ,W experimenting when she was about nine years old. Some of her favorite dishes to create were spaghetti with homemade sauce and ice-box cakes. After she moved out on her own. this love of cooking would keep her from depending on TV dinners or routine meals Vickie Williams gained the satisfaction and knowledge that the future would be a little bit brighter from being able to make her own clothes. She had been able to sew almost all her own clothes since she took a Singer sewing course when she was eleven years old. Saving pennies might not sound like an exciting thing to do, but tor Joette lselt, who had accomplished over 392.00 worth in one year, it might come in handy. especially if the government stopped making them, We matured, learning responsibility, budgeting our time and money, and realizing we needed time for ourselves and our self-growth. We gained confidence. endurance and the insight to see the importance of dedication and challenge. We found that our hobbies and interests were not just fun, but rewarding. They could be useful in our futures: they might even become our lifetime careers. qv hobbies and interests 81