Little Rock Central High School - Pix Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Using a mirror, junior Allen Wayne prepares for a Friday night dale. Shaving isn't fun. even though as a kid I thought it would lx-. he said. With the aid of his car mirror, senior Ricky Funderburg takes a final look at Central as he leaves school at the end of another day of classes. Mirrors have many uses in today's society.

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'Chough their figures arc distorted by a mirror in the Fun House at the Arkansas Stale Fair, the futures of junior Jeff Bullard and sophomore George Newbcrn—two’active students—offer ho| es for successful lives. Checking her appearance in one of the school's bathroom mirrors is senior Sandra Scott. Many faces looked into each of the mir- rors every day of school. Outlooks With the start of a new decade, numerous people began pondering the future of the nation. They looked long and hard at the rising rate of inflation, at the energy crisis, at the unstable conditions in many parts of the world, and at what many called “corruption” in government. The conclusion for most seemed to be that the 1980’s would not be a good decade for this nation. Yet. these pessimists failed to look at the nation's youth—the youth who will be tomorrow's future. If they had looked at youth, they would have discovered an optimistic group of people who feel that the ills plaguing the nation and the world can be overcome. They would have discovered a group of people who feel that the best in life is yet to come, both for them and for the nation. The 1979-80 PIX yearbook tells the story of one group of youth—those at Little Rock Central High, a school that in 1957 had a bleak future as the result of its now infamous in- tegration crisis. Today’s Central is one filled with success. Tomorrow's Central will be one that will offer even more suc- cess stories. The outlooks, for both Central and its students of the 1979-80 school year, are indeed fillet! with promises of suc- cess. Showing her support for both her school and her Tiger basket- ball team, junior varsity cheerleader Fclecia Thomas leaps high in the air during a cheer at a conference basketball game. 2—Table of Contents With her hair in curlers and applying her makeup before coming to school, sophomore Jett Clancy uses a mirror.

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Junior English students, taught by Mrs. Hazel Bullock, study the different types of sentences. Layne Huckabay writes a compound sentence at the board while Mrs. Bullock explains the elements of a compound sentence to the class. On the job at Murry's Dinner Playhouse is Industrial Cooperative Training student Creg Nichols, a junior. Students in ICT attended classes during the mornings and then worked in local businesses during the afternoons, thus gaining actual job ex- perience while attending school. Selecting'a book to read as part of an assignment in one of his classes is senior Darrell Oliver. Most classes required students to do extensive reading outside of their regular classroom work. 4—Theme