McCallum High School - Knight Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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H Bookends Theme Time iT was And whaT a Time iT was lT was A Time oT innocence A Time oT confidences Long ago iT musT be l have a phoTograph Preserve your memories They're all ThaT's leTT of you. Paul Simon Perhaps you never ThoughT ThaT Time would push you pasT school and inTo The presenT. You mighT never have ThoughT ThaT you would open up This parTiQular memory and see The people you grew up wiTh, as They were insTead oT as They are, as you remember Them. You could- run inTo a woman Today on The sTreeT and never make The connecTion beTween her and ThaT bespecTacled creaTure who saT behind you in chemisTry. Now? When you were aT McCallum, iT was unimaginable eons ahead, noThing To Think oT yeT. Now was when you saT Through ThaT game we losT To JohnsTon I8-30 and. . . yes, ThaT was The year The VieT Nam War ended. EveryThing seems To have been so simple Then. Thinking back, you know iT wasn'T really easy, buT iT sure seems ThaT way now. Remember ThaT C you goT, and how your parenTs reacTed? lT wouldn'T have .4-.11 been so bad excepT ThaT iT was in Choir. The I0 absences didn'T help much eiTher since you had perTecT aTTendance in all oTher classes. MaTh was Tough ThaT year and despiTe midnighT sTudy sessions, you only barely passed. BuT you did pass and were pushed grade Through grade up pasT col- lege and inTo This disTanT presenT. You can Think back now and remember Things ThaT you didn'T Think you ever knew. SomeTimes you look back and real- ize ThaT McCallum in l972-73 was The mosT Tun, mosT alive, mosT wonderful year oT your liTe. An awakening To under- sTanding your Teachers and Tellow sTu- denTs because They were human beings: People, noT iusT moving bodies. ThaT year was The TirsT year ThaT you acTually Tound yoLrrselT relaTing To ThaT special boy or glr . And now you've somehow managed To sTruggle your way Through in This confus- ing and exciTing world only To Tind ThaT There are sTill more years To go. BuT you can'T overlook The memories ThaT have seTTled in your mind ThroughouT all The ages and now you can laugh aT Those silly Things you did in high school. lT was Tun To acT so silly back Then, buT now. . .? Shove The old yearbook back on The shelf To Take iT ouT and look aT iT in anoTher decade. Decade? No, ThaT's ages away.

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Memories!28 Resenvimq onies no EsTEndA -' A. Opposife page: An en+husiasfic boy was one of fhe lucky ones as he enjoyed lhe snow on his sled. Upper righh A fradifional lrip down memory lane - foo+ball season wifh spirif signs and decorafed lockers. Far righf: Exhausfed sfudenf represenfs many as final fime draws near. Righlz David Russell expressing fhe basic sludenf aH'i+ude. Above: A familiar sighf: books leff forgoffen 'ro collecl dust and homework again leff undone. 'E S ,.,.f.f, live

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pun .i 5 ... li T , P w V . A AV l . y . y f 2 4Ab . as Forgotten eople Show AbiliTy To Help CreoTe Proven ProiecTs Alive and TuncTioning aT McCallum High School are some TiTTeen hundred faces you don'T know. FiTTeen-hundred sTudenTs who go To classes, scream aT pep rallies, lisTen To The announcemenTs and dread geTTing Mr. KeaThley. l'laven'T you ever wondered, iusT once, whaT parT These sTudenTs play in your school? Well, some are probably mem- bers oT Mac's chapTer of The NaTional Mu Alpha TheTa organizaTion or Grade I3 sTudenTs. OThers mighT be runners on The cross counTry Team, or players Tor The varsiTy Tennis Team: and a Tew more could be parTicipanTs in The prayer group during The break. Forgoflen People!! 0 A ,,.,,, ,,,A L. ,, ig W. -'.. 5, Every day during The break, an unknown, unnamed group meeTs. Com- monly referred To as The prayer group, This club meeTs in a biology classroom. The group has abouT TwenTy parTicipanTs and is growing. QuieT surroundings and meaningTul exchanges make The group unique amid The clamor oT The break. ln Ten minuTes no greaT decisions are made, buT The kids share experiences and prayers meaning- Tul To Them. SomeThing very special and rare can be obTained Trom a word wiTh God, and This group has Tound iT. Few sTudenTs are aware ThaT This group meeTs and Tewer undersTand how much iT oTTers and whaT iT's all abouT. lv1cCallum's chapTer oT The NaTiona Mu Alpha TheTa organizaTion, called Thi MighTy MaTh Club, is a small and gener ally unknown group. The club's acTiviTie are planned mainly Tor The sTudenT inTer esTed in learning. Learning noT onli abouT Theories in GeomeTry, buT alsc abouT relaTing The Swiss Cheese Tc raTional numbers or abouT Andy Kopra' Hexaflexagon. The idea oT a maTh club being any Thing buT boring is quesTioned by mosT Unique because iTs acTiviTies do no exclude The non-maTh TanaTic, Thi Migl1Ty MaTh Club is a chance To learn someThing besides Tormulas, deTiniTions and asympToTes. BuT mosT non-maTl TanaTics would laugh aT The whole idea, i They knew abouT iT. , 5 ' 3- ., ' ,, - A . K g sri , K , , M, ,,,. , . v XT. 5 ' Hy: g L ' i X ' T fimsi ii' - T M W 'L ..1ifs-Jaw if ,W ' . vs,-,X-we-3, --., :5?:?lu.,:. .,, +-,..,s11'.-1 Y' is as -' , I ii i ' i TZ i'i, ., I . sf 'vfgfgi -, 1-,gf ' -gig .'7'f'P v--'fi 5 ' ,:'1f.gk-NW n ' N rsfbfsz ,-nr., Q- . Q.. , fmgrz' cw-N,-lr'--s ' V .K .mu D N 'ts 1 PF, -' 'bT.L ,,, 1 K ' '..,-f r F' .. . s, s .T . 3 . gif' s,is off frsf fn - 5 5 i34i!: Q h i s T 2'4 f?'15L5 J-...Wx'?ff4'fsZi35T'T '. .' i .s s rt. 6 . f , K ..,--sg. 5 -,tj N s:,..w:,,s-.:k 1-,-,f ,g-.MXL . ' : g. Q- . M . . 1. . 'gi.1 i,,,s, ., .Q f,g1s,-y ,Q ,jgsnq 1. why.-s.q5, sw -W. ' H if-3 - ' .u- -fr: T- ' -ff: ' ' . Mr v'r'J lf'-? -.Sf-f,ss?ffm -J N. -rss ,....fefis.f2J-21-i .y.i,g,-4,4 ..,,..,,s.., . .,. In ,... . .. if fgngaf-'-k.f.s.i-grin---,, l l if X T viii.