McCallum High School - Knight Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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:Tball boys - To win The lasT game ey would ever play Tor Mac, and To The 72 Team which conquered Reagan. As The yells and cheers began once ain, Jo Rucker moTioned The hesi+an+ I6 Brigade and BrigadeTTes inTo a long ack The whip TormaTion wiTh a TwosTep cenT. Snalcing around The dazed TooT- ll players and playing band, sTudenTs so ioined in line, wiTh many riding ggy back. A long march Through The halls soon lowed, as The horns and drums beaT T The accompanimenT. ReTurning To e gym The pep rally conTinued Tor oTher TorTy-Tive minuTes and became longes'I' rally on record aT Mac. ylT Took Coach Acker To Tinally quell The , fwlji, 7 i f dl 4 noise, as he reminded everyone ThaT only TwenTy minuTes remained Tor lunch. WiTh ThoughTs oT vicTory and empTy sTomachs The greaTesT pep rally ended wiTh Oh When The KnighTs Go Marching ln. AnoTher sTudenT-planned rally was seT Tor 2 p.m., as mosT everyone had hopes ThaT school was over Tor The day. BuT adminisTraTors had locked The gym doors and classes resumed as usual aT TiTTh period. Drizzle and TorTy degree winds seT The scene aT- Nelson Field as The KnighTs meT The Raiders Tor The Homecoming game. HalTTime ceremonies included The presenTaTion oT Jo Rucker, Regina Raw- son, Lola Jackson, Barbara FosTer and Julie Hall as semi-TinalisTs Tor Homecom- ing Queen. Julie Hall was chosen sweeThearT and received a bouqueT of red roses Trom Helen Mohrmann, STudenT Council presi- denT. Amid Tears, conTeTTi and raindrops, Mac supporTers waTched Reagan edge by I4-9 in a very close and emoTion Tilled game. Much Talk oT apaThy was heard The week beTore The Reagan game, yeT The Reagan pep rally so unified The sTudenT body wiTh school spiriT and loyalTy ThaT as The Tinal minuTes oT The game Ticlced away, shouTs of We're from McCallum, and couldn'T be prouder! were heard echoing Trom The sTands. Hopes Tor anoTher Try Tor disTricT and a vicTory over Reagan would noT be Tor- goTTen, as dreams of nexT year's season were already begun. ,Mme of Far ieTT: Homecoming Queen Julie Hall glows wiTh pride and spiriT during Mads halT-Time TesTiviTies. Upper cenTer leTT: Thursday nighT's pancake supper involved sTudenTs, Teachers. and parenTs in The spir- ifed preegame acTiviTies. Lower cenfer leTT: A large blue candle burned conTinuously in The oTTice dur- ing Homecoming weelc as a consTanT reminder of The perpeTual Mac-Reagan rivalry. LeTT: Edwina Mcphail cheers The Team on as The band prepares To play during Friday's Two and one halT hour pep rally. Top: BrigadeTTe Gayle Schoen radiaTes The enThusiasm seen ThroughouT Homecoming week. Above: Pensive players Brian Bailey. Nelson PueTT, and John Thompson reTlecT Mac's deTerminaTion. Hom ecoming! I9

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l l Homecoming ExciTemenT: Spirit Abounds This is The greaTesT Thing I've ever seen aT Mac, said Coach Jim Acker. His sTaTemenT ended one oT The mosT spiriT Tilled pep rallies ever held Tor a McCallum-Reagan TooTball game. As Homecoming Week and The evenT- Tul Reagan game approached, spiriT mounTed. Blue and grey sTreamers hung Trom The lighTs, while Reagan Who? signs and We Back Mac! paper plaTes plasTered The halls. BeaT Reagan candles burned in all classrooms, including The oTTice, where a large blue candle burned conTinuously The enTire week. ParenTs were given a chance To ioin in wiTh The sTudenT body in compeTiTion cheers, and help build spiriT Tor The regu- YeT These ouTward signs oT spiriT couli noT maTch The hopes and enThusiasm To a vicTory over Reagan. Members oT The BoosTer Club spon sored a Pancake Supper and TeaTurei The choir as enTerTainmenT. ln aTTen ance were The Blue Brigade, BrigadeTTe band and pare Ts, who joined in The nighT pep rally hich Tollowed The sup per. Coach Acker recognized The senioi TooTball players during The pep rally, a: well as Thanking all Those responsible To promoTing spiriT aT McCallum. Regina Rawson read a leTTer Trom 4 senior sTudenT, which broughT To minc memories of lasT years' deTeaT, anc emphasized The single wish of The senio t., isa lar dayTime rally planned Tor The Third period. Tension and exciTemenT ran Through The air like elecTric currenT as McCallum's TwenTieTh anniversary and Homecoming acTiviTies began. The public address sysTem blasTed The TighT song beTween classes, as sTudenTs and Teachers alike Tound iT hard To con- cenTraTe on academic subiecTs. Earlier ThaT morning, The cheerleaders had Transformed The gym inTo a gallery oT 'BeaT Reagan' spiriT signs. Balloons adorned The Toofball players' secTion, while lasT minuTe KnighT noTes were mailed. BuT as The Band and Blue Brigade marched Through The hall Tor The lasT Time, The once silenT gym was Tilled To overTlowing'wiTh screaming KnighT sup- porTers. Fire crackers and cow bells added To The cheers, as boTh The rocking bleachers and sTudenTs responded To The cry - WhaT's The good word? BeaT Reagan! The band blasTed ouT one song aTTer anoTher unTil special ceremonies gave everyone a chance To recover Their losT voice. STudenT Council disTribuTed mums To all The Teachers who had TaughT aT McCallum for TwenTy years, and a skiT was presenTed which TeaTured The uni- Torms and TradiTions oT The early l96O's.

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i 1 i Faces cincl Feelings rape' is 539' 'lv Facesl2O Above: Mi+ch Brown looks abouf with indifference responding fo a sludenfs com- menfs on life. Upper righfz Making an expression for her- self, Cheryl Horn shows lrue emofion wi'rh fears. Cenler righh Laughfer produced an individual expression for Darrell Reese. differenf from ano+her's reacfion lo humor. Right Leah Lacy gazes off info space in hopes of finding lhe solufion 'ro a problem. Far upper righl: Befh Hardesfy answers a sarcas- fic comment wifh a chilling response. Far righh ln a franfic moment Becky Triggs expresses disbelief al' a frigger-happy phofographer.