MacArthur High School - Crest Yearbook (Irving, TX)

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W X WADING; The scene in the old days took place in a quiet meadow, lo soothe ttie tiied teet, a person indulging in this simple pleasure would roll up the pants legs, and splash around in a crystal clear country stream. ] he babbling brook has been replaced by a duck pond, and the new breed of waders must be more adventurous, braving typtioid, swamp lever, mad duck bites, leeches, and about lU leet ot slimy silt. Simple pleasures are the best WALKING: You might lemember it as an archaic sport practiced by bored neanderthals, I heonly people who do it today are stiange poets and old men. It has been predicted that by the year 21UU, man will have regressed to the amoeba stage, with protuberances just long enougti to press down a power brake or accelerator pedal, WANDERING: Wandering can be done with teet, mind, or spirit, hoot wandering can result in sore legs and a lack ot knowledge as to one ' s whereabouts. Mind wandering can result in bizarre tliouglits and low quiz grades, bpint wandering can lead to poetry and the disturbance ot well-being. WINDOWS: Windows aie a torture device created by some sadist in charge ot school design during tlie Dark Ages, there is nottiing more pamtui than a lecture about coordinating coniunctions in the same room with an open window ttiat IS letting in all the siglits, sounds, and smells ot spring. X: X marks the spot. X plus Y equals Z. X shortens Christmas. X means you missed the problem. ' X makes xylophone a strange looking word. X makes writing yearbook copy extremely difficult. XMOTOPY: A mythical creature who made words hard to pronounce. An ancestor of pneumonia and psychiatrist and natural enemy to English students everywhere. X-RATED means thatwhatpeopledo on the screen is very bad for you if you are 17 years and 364 days old, but suitable if you are 18. On a beautiful, spring day Mans sadistic nature is displayed in the library ' s expansive windows through which students may look, but rarely venture forth. 24 experiencing

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In an effort to fight the rising prices, Connie iVIatysek attempts to place two calls for the price of one. t U V TARDY: Good morning, Mrs. Attendance Lady. Whaa . . . me? Late? Your clock doesn ' t say the same as my watch— are you sure your ' s IS right? Well, mygerbil ate the alarm clock, you see. No? I hit somebodyon the wayand thought I ' d better stop. Uh . . . uh . . . OK, I ' ll go straight to class. Thanks. TAXES: When your dad starts withholding taxes from your allowance, the taxing business has gone too far. Sales tax, income tax, social security— and they won ' t even let me claim my dog as a dependent; he eats as much as I do. If the government needs a loan, I ' ll be happy to help out, as long as they catch me after the Prom. TELEPHONES: Find a dime and dash for the phone. Gotta call Mom, left my project at home! Put the dime in the slot and then wait for the tone (I ' m late for class now— in the hall all alone). Suddenly I notice a sign on the wall, I let out a scream that crumbles the hall, Gas prices are high, but thisbeats itall! Now it costs a quarter just to make a phone call. ULCERS: Persistently irritating little things that are fairly easy to procure in the average high school career. They are brought about by an overflow of notecards, tests, and projects and a lack of time, money, and quiet. But there is nothing wrong with acquiring ulcers m high school; besides being status symbols, they prepare us for the real world. UNITY: For once, it does not seem farcical to mention a sense of unity. Before, only the cheerleaders and a few others really felt it. This year, even the so-called freaks joined the formerly sparse poster party crew to encourage a team that was winning. Formerapatheticschipped in to the Larry Harper Fund. The atmosphere was definitely different; whether it was due to any single factor in particular or to the general realization that more of value can be accomplished by a basically unified student body is hard to determine. VACATIONS: Hot dog! Fifteen more minutes and I ' m through. I ' ll have the whole summer to myself! No more homework. Oh, yeah! From now on it ' s just lying around the house watching soap operas and being bored out of my mind. experiencing 23

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yz Singleton ' s shenanigans typified betiavior throughout his senior year. zany Why stare at us? You ' d think we were a bunch of xmotopies. ' YAWN: A warning signal which tells us to drop a couple more No-Doz so we can finish our term themes. Occur more frequently during sixth period and in May. A biological reaction to lectures and outlines. YEARBOOK: 1.) To the student body, an overpriced book chock full of memories and mistakes, that materializes miraculously sometime in August; 2.) To the staffers, a source of ulcers, sleepless nights, disownings by parents, and psychoses. YESTERDAY: When the book report, psychology project, and chemistry experiment saved for today should have been done. Time which has slipped through our fingers like water through a sieve, never again to be touched, sniffed, or tasted. Only fragments are trapped by our memories, and even those are eventually blown away by time. YOUTH: Us. As they say in graduation speeches, We are on the threshhold of adulthood and our lives. The word cynicism has not yet entered our vocabularies, because our minds are still undaunted by reality. Z: The school life of a person who has a last name beginning with Z is sometimes traumatic. A Zimmerman breaks out in a cold sweat when tests are being returned, hoping desperately that the teacher is handing them back alphabetically and not by rank. AZablonski can not get excited when bright, brand new textbooksare being issued; he knows he ' ll have to settle for a dogeared, scribbled up, antique copy. Nick Zucchini ' s only break comes at graduation when he is the last graduate whose name is read and his classmates cheer wildly. His relatives from Zelionople, Pennsylvania, didn ' t know he was so popular. Neither did Nick. ZANY: The man who lives without folly IS not so wise as he imagines. Take for instance, the malady which plagues graduating Seniors: Seniontis. Common symptoms are spendmgthewholedayfiguringouta way to get out of school, laughing hysterically at such things as tennis shoes and pizzas, and much day dreaming. Without zany behavior things in general would become bland; life would be without salt. ZOO: Ah, the zoo— a place to escape the hectic rut of high school with a picnic lunch and a friend. Relaxing by watching exotic animals do strange things works until they start reminding you of the people you came to forget. experiencing 25