McGavock High School - Etc Yearbook (Nashville, TN)

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Touching acquaintances as the winds do blow Each day growing wiser yet weaker as time goes Involved in activities fluttering such Speaking muffly to the next saying much Joined firmly to the mother oak tree The capillaries of knowledge as we can see Loving, hurting and feeling against Other bodily features, emotions do quench Occasional events where dances are danced When storms brew and clouds past pranced As the rapidly changing season comes to a close And pictures of us together we pose The grip from the tree loosens and we fall Feeling quite scared yet proudly tall A space is left for a newer growth = And we are taken to the ground where our seeds are both The beginning of a new dimension of life And the ending of our youth, the slate is wiped : re It is us who are the leaves if és: ‘ a against the sky The developing students of McGavock Senior High. — Jackie Seely —

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Remember what it was like being a sophomore, to be totally ignored and run over (literally) by all the upper classmen? Can you imagine how a freshman must feel? Although they know they’re not alone, (because there are over 784 peo- ple just like them) the average freshman still has this empty feeling inside. Every day they walk down the same halls being seen and looked over by the same upper classman stare of indiffer- ence. Hey, it’s not a freshman’s fault that he is just a 5‘0 midget in a 5‘9 world! A solid year of torture must be en- dured by our freshman class, which hard- ly ever realizes going on around school. You ask where the torture part comes in it’s sitting in homeroom for 45 min- utes while all the “‘big shots’ are having fun. Finally, the day arrives when the fresh- man step up the ladder. No longer are they classified as a “‘sub-mo”’, but now can pledge a full allegiance to the classifi- cation of ‘‘ Mo.”’ Big deal, right? Sure, you are probably not as short as you were last year, and at least now you have someone lower in class, yet being a sophomore does not give you a easy way to go. You are involved in a few more activities per- haps, but there are still those times when juniors and seniors are at various func- tions and you are still lost in the woods! Time seems to go so fast you really do not have time to think about sophomore blues and before you realize it, you are a junior! Being a junior, you are no longer looked down upon and ignored, but part of the ‘“‘crowd’’. You are involved in a lot of activities: all the little people look up to you and no longer do you feel lonely and left out. Everyone gets class rings and now you are an individual and not just another face in the crowd. Once again, the months disappear too fast to be recognized. You might even be mistak- en as a senior. Finally, the ultimate has arrived: Your Senior year!! Being a senior is fantastic! Everyone knows who you are and even though the lower classmen won’t admit it, they re- spect your superiority. Seniors are in- volved in everything and everything cen- ters around them. Knowing that you have finally made it to the top of the ladder gives you a feeling of satisfaction, accom- plishment, and relief in knowing that you finally succeeded in reaching the top. Seniors have everything to look forward to, one of those goals being graduation. The senior year is a time of happiness and sadness. As a senior you are prob- ably looking forward to the challenges that await you, but you will also leave many true friends and a time in your life that you will always remember. Once again, you are “STEPPING UP THE LADDER” Left to right: Freshman Tim Young anticipates stepping up the ladder, while senior Leory Jordan knows he has made it to the top.

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Is Winning Really Everything? by Bill Sneed When does winning at all costs com- | pletely posses a person? Is the kill a high- er priority than the hunt? One of the greatest teachers and moti- vators of men ever to coach a sport was the late Vince Lombardi. He is so re- » spected in the football world that the tro- . phy given to the Super Bowl winner is named after him. Lombardi is best known |. for coaching the Green Bay Packers to ‘|, the first two championships of the Super Bowl. One of the most repeated quotes in the sports world belongs to Lombardi, “‘Win- , Ning isn’t everything, it’s all there is” , This is the attitude and philosophy of a i, man who was a winner both on and off the football field. ve Some people hold another point of “view, summed up by the old standard je “it’s not whether you win or lose, but Mi how you play the game.” ' ’ A clash of these two points of view f ‘occurred in the Gator Bowl between Clemson and Ohio State. The Ohio State Buckeyes, staging a comeback late in the game, tried a screen pass up the middle. The play was read well by Clemson player Charlie Bauman, who intercepted the pass to stop the Ohio State comeback. Bauman returned the ball several yards upfield before being pushed out of bounds directly in front of the Buckeyes bench. Bauman’s intercep- tion had about iced the victory for Clem- son. Ohio State Head Coach Woody Hayes, a veteran of 30 years in the col- lege football world, ran up behind Bau- man and took a swing at him. Did the pressure of winning at all costs drive Hayes to overreact? Like Lombardi said, ‘‘ ... winning is everything ... ” There is something to be said for the keep-on-fighting-til-the-end-humble loser type. Maybe we should look at our priorities on the athletic field or even on the big game of life. When does the final score keep you from enjoying the game? 17