MacArthur High School - Crest Yearbook (Irving, TX)

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Everyone loves a winner; success breeds spirted fans. APATHY was dropped from the curriculum this year because not enough students signed up for the course. In it ' s place, a new semester course was added— enthusiasm. It involved a six-week study on How to Back a Winning Team, and the remaining twelve weeks were spent learning Cardinal cheers. APTITUDE TESTS: ACT, STEP, SAT, PSAT-NMSQT, CEEB, CLEP, WPA, NAACP, WFL, RBI, QRS, HELP! BICYCLING: Besides its meritsasa fat-eliminator, the bicycle hasadded a new dimension to going to school. An early-morning regimen of (I) pedaling past kitchen windows where bacon is sizzling; (2) taking in the pollution-free sounds of birds chirping, dogs barking, and gears shifting: and (3) straining to make it up Northgate clears the head for thinking like no parking lot scuffle ever could. BUSES: I always used to hear the story from my parents about how they used to walk ten miles in the rain, with holes in their shoes, while hurdling fences as they cut through the woods on the way to school. When my kids complain about their journey to and from school I can tell them how I had to dash out of the classroom at 3:45, race down the stairway, jump those who had fallen, and break through the doorway onto the bus, only to squeeze m for an aisle seat. Suffering from my daily bumps and bruises, I began to think ten miles in the ram isn ' t so bad after all. 14 experiencing