Lost River High School - Raiders Gold Yearbook (Merrill, OR)

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BILLY GALLAGHER Proves to be “the Best in the West’’ TOP RIGHT: Billy whistling his favorite tune while waiting for a rodeo event. BOTTOM LEFT: Bill showing his interest in woodshop by work- ing on his project. BOTTOM RIGHT: Bill explaining what he did wrong to Mike McKowen at the Tulelake rodeo. 8 Billy Gallagher

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 THE REST OF THE BEST! PG. 6: TOP: During football spirit week, some of the girls rooted on the volleyball team to beat the boys football team in a game of volleyball. BOT- TOM RIGHT: Nate Moore takes a hard earned break during lunch time. PG. 7: TOP LEFT: Senior Mike Alvis works on his project in the wood shop. MIDDLE RIGHT: Mr. Santos and Mr. Stahl discuss the activities of the shop. BOTTOM LEFT: Richard Sovereign is glad to be a Senior this year at Lost River. BOTTOM RIGHT: Ed Parks gets in front of Mr. Honda’s class and shows how cold the school can really get during the winter. 'SiisSir™

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TOP LEFT: Bill showing off his duds while singing in an air band. TOP RIGHT: Billy planning his next attack on the Antlers. Billy Gallagher started rodeoing when he was five years old. When he was ten years old he started roping off a horse. Bill got started watching his father, Bill Gallagher, friends, and other members of the family. Bill cow cuts, team ropes, calf ropes and steer stops. Bill would like to keep rodeoing after he graduates from high school. He says he might even try to rope professionally. He enjoys it very much. For team roping you need a horse, rope, a saddle, a place to practice, a bridle, a bit, and a tie down. He bought his first horse trained but then he trained his second horse by himself. You need a different horse for heading and heeling. Bill qualified to compete in the na- tional finals in South Dakota during the summer of 1984. He won the state championship in cow cutting. He also was leading the state going into the third round of team roping. But they missed the cow. So he just went in cow cutting. Bill said, The finals were nerve racking because there were three arenas going at the same time so you had to listen for your name. He lost the cow in the first round to put him out of the average and in the second and third round he didn’t do very good at all. He finished about 100 out of 300. To cow cut you pick a cow out of the herd, drive it out and let your horse work the cow. Linda McKowen, Bill’s mom, says she is proud of him because he has come a long way in a short time and she enjoys to watch him rope. Bill, as an athelete, is the type of person all coaches would want. He is hard working and serious about what he does and sets an excellent exam pie for our younger players. Bill has been a tremendous help to the 84 football team, playing strong tackle and defensive tackle and also served as defensive captain. Bill is an excel- lent athlete and a very sincere and honest person. Bill has the respect of his teammates as well as the coach- ing staff. Bill can be seen working hard at his studies however, he does display a humorus side. Quite often you can catch Bill in the hallways engaging in one of his favorite sporting events- FLIRTING! Billy Gallagher 9