Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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MANY GROUPS ARE ' ALWAYS TRYING T0 COL- 'LECT' MONEY for 'various causes. They collect for dif- ferent reasons, but money is always necessary to keep something going. Some say it's love, but others say it's Money that makes the world go 'round. Photo compliments of NASA. DONNED IN HATS, SUN GLASSES, AND ANTEN- NAES, Juniors Mark,Mai, Katy Crawford, and Emily wtiaiif 12 Q . 2559: Q.. if 'Ag' A-WEL? Anderson use the triple L W . threat while trying to sell sf '-f . ...i 50 juniors volunteered their services for two weeks by becoming bees flower salesmen to raise money for their class. Jun- ior class officers estimated the sales drew S9,000. Photo by Trent Rosenthal. By Nancy Wright A I I' om. can l have S20 for school today please? What! S20! For what? Did you lose all your books? Did you throw a baseball and break a window? Are you sponsoring the Swim Team's trip to San Antonio? No. well it's just that this girl in my first period class is selling M and M's. and my best friend is selling magazines, and at lunch there's going to be a bake sale today. and l ordered a candle from this poor little freshman and . . Supporting all the various clubs at Memorial could become an expensive habit. Funds were raised in many different ways and for a lot of different reasons. While most clubs raised funds to support club activities. others raised funds that simply sat in the treasury. CHEESE AND SAUSAGE ' Choir members sold candy at the beginning of the year to raise money for Vespers and for the bus ride to various places they went to sing. Thecandy didn't cover the whole cost though. so they had to sell cheese and sausage. also. Choir member Vicki Williams said. We sold candy at the beginning of the year for the Vespers set and bus ride but after Vespers was over we still hadn't sold enough 'so we sold cheese and sausage to cover the rest of the cost. ' Magazine sales helped to pay for broken instruments and many trips the band took. Each member of the band was given a booklet with ses eral well-known magazines and he sold subscriptions. The money we got from the magazine sale went to instrument repairs and supplies. The Symphonic band sold candy to pay for Spring tour trips. said Junior band member Debbie Hunt. Fluff. Samms. J'aides and Sigma Gamma all needed money for toiletpaper. crepe paper and the things necessary to support their football team. Vice-president of Samms. Franny Coleman. said. We sold S150 worth of stationery and it went into the treasury for wrapping houses and rooms and making signs for the football players. Special report, money making projects - Depllz dcxign hr S11.vun.l1u1cl1in1. carnations during lunch. S Jgwii-vJ ' n MlIH.Gl' mrzffes the zvorlrf go 'round Fund Raiser: SOUR BALLS AND J'AlDES ln J'aides each girl had to, buy her own things for supporting football players hut the Club sold sour halls and had bake sales for next year's Sigma Gamma. Carrie Ramsey, Secretary of J'aides said. This year we made about a thousaud dollars from bake sales and selling sour balls but it all went into the treasury so we can have money for next year in Sigma Gamma. Sigma Gamma girls had no fund-raising projects. Each! girl paid S12 at beginning of the year and that was all. We just paid extra dues so we wouIdn't have to do anything to raise money, said Sigma Gamma member Allison Anderson. - Apart from the normal candy and bake sales, some clubs had some innovative fund-raising ideas. A THE PARTY ' The Party? was a dance held by the Key Club. Good music and clever advertising helped' to make the dance a success and Key Club members raised a S100 from it. Vice-president of the Key Club. Greg LaSartre said, We haven't done anything yet with the money we raised from The Party but there are a few tentative things such as repainting the horses in the cafeteria. Doughnuts were sold by the French Club on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. We had a pretty good responsev said Sopho- more Claire Poole. After all who could turn down a doughnut in the morning. Money from doughnut sales went towards a possible trip to New Orleans. ' Future Teachers of America KFTAQ members wanted to make a trip to Dallas for a teachers comvention. They had two bake sales and raised S30. All we do to raise money is have bake sales, said Senior Cindy Yates, Supposedly it goes to pay partly for the peo- ple who go to Dallas but we only have S30. Mom, there's nothing wrong with supporting clubs is there?,, No, but do you have to support all of them? 'iNo, just Ally and FHA and the Key Club and the Band and Fluff and the Markettes and the Frisbee Club and . . . - 30 -

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i ali Continued from page 13 Awakened to the screech of brakes and a sudden jolt, Jewish students were roused from their bunks, ordered off their train by Czechoslovakian officials and left stranded in a foreign country with only their suitcases and each other for company. g'It was freezing. We had short sleeves on and we had to walk back to the train station on the border of Czechoslovakia and Poland. said Susan Joachim. The students were not allowed to pass through Czechoslovakia to Austl ria because they did not have the neces- sary Czech visa's. We didnft think we'd need them just to go through, said Tracy Samuels. Earlier that day. the students had been sightseeing in Aushwitz. I think everyone was eager to get out of there. Everything was kind of drabg you could tell there was something different about it. Poland was so gray, a real downerf' said Tracy. The train station. a rinky-dink. four gray walled structure was far from inviting to the weary students, We walked in and all these Polish people just stared at us. The place was filthy. The floors were so dirty we had to sleep on top of our suitcases. We spent 20 I4 Making the most of it A HOT DAY at Windy Gap provokes Junior Amy Jarvis, Counselor Lauri Mattingly, and Junior Emily Anderson to cool their feet in a creek. ln spite of a broken arm, Amy said, lt was a blast - we had more fun, Counseling on the Chris- tian life was also offered. Photos by Harry Slye hours there, said Susan. The leader of the group contacted the American Embassy, but it was an individual from the U.S. Trade Center that financed the students plane trip to Israel. Because Jewish education is based on Israel's history, the students hoped to learn more about the people and their lives. 'Alt was an opportunity of a lifetime. Itfs what our lives are based on. Ijust couldn,t pass it up, said Tracy. Aside from the accidental two day delay in Austria, the students spent one week in Poland and six weeks in Israel. Other events included camping out in the Sinai desert for five days and clim- bing Mt. Sinai. The students also enjoyed snorkling, touring, hiking. and visiting museums. It was all pretty exciting. I made the front page of the paper, too, said Susan. Several of the kids were crying when the guards were shouting stuff at us on the train, but I wasn't really scared. They weren't going to hurt us,- they just weren't going to help us, Tracy said. - 30 - STRANDED AT A POLISH BORDER STATION, Jewish students sleep atop their suitcases while waiting for transportation through Czechoslova- kia. Officials forced the students off their train because they lacked the necessary visas. Photo by Susan Joachim CHORAL WORKSHOP AT WIMBERLY provided fellowship, fun, and daily rehearsals for meme bers of Chapelwood Methodists Wesley choir. Anthems for Sunday morning services were pre- pared as were programs of which dances, com- munion, and a concert were a part. Photos by Harry Slye DURING JULY, Young Lifers took a trip to Windy Gap. Young Life Leader Nancy Henderson played coach for relay races and other games.

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els a wool coat trimmed with rabbit fur. Lydia was selected to model at Lord and Taylor in the Galleria. The fashion show was held August 18. Photo by Harry Zuber. WITH A PFIACTICED POSE, Lydia deValle mod- I' l A 792 FOOT FENCE was put up around the school to insure safety. While some students strongly opposed the fence, others were not affected by it. Photo by Tom Freireich. 'Making the most of it iddie shoes, Elvis Presley's death, the new Lord and Taylor, a peas- ant look, the old friends, a lost fresh- man, a haughty senior, fresh paint, a remodeled hangout and high hopes for a good year all accompanied students back to Memorial for another nine months of hard work and good times. Back to school was either a repeat of the last one, two, or three years or for some it was a brand new experience. Freshman Missy Chapman said, We have so much more freedom, like chewing gum in class and having coke machines. I love all the clubsf' said Zoe Snyder, and I think it's neat the way they mix the juniors and seniors and everybody? One year repeaters probably enjoyed being back to school more than anyone else. They were no longer fish It was all too tempting to flaunt their knowl- edge that there was no such thing as an elevator or a third floor swimming pool. Sophomores are the only ones who say, 'Ha, ha you're a fish,' said Freshman Monica Campo. Two year repeaters were in the mid- dle of the road. They weren't quite Useniorsf' yet but by far were not underclassmen. You have the superi- ority of an upperclassman but you still don't have the superiority of Seniors like one time we got kicked out of the student section at a football game by Seniors! It's nice being an upperclass- man though, said Junior Anne Wil- kinson. Coming back to high school for the last time were the seniors. Being at the top was a different but prestigious feel- ing. I feel real important now, but I'm scared of next year, said Will Worley. Susan Kaplan said, The only reason it feels different is because there's no sen- iors to look up tof, But Steve Stigall summed it up, Being a Senior is cool. Jack in' the Box, a famous hangout rn rm ttirinn -l for students who wanted a cheap night out, was remodeled. An inside eating place was added on and the traditional Jackfs head to give your order into was replaced by a giant Jack menu. The rusty walkway covering from the courtyard to the end of the boys gym was freshly painted with white paint. Even the poles holding it up had a new beige color. Other improvements were a new bell system, a new gym floor, a stereo in the cafeteria and after the first flooding of the Senior Parking Lot occurred, a drainage sewer was built. Later in the year, a 792 foot fence was put up around the school which caused controversy among students. While some felt it was nothing to bother about, others felt strongly against it. A sign was hung outside the red wing which read, MHS Peniten- tiary. Kevin Topek said, It is totally useless. It will not stop crooks. It will not stop people from smoking dope. Itfs ugly and I see no purpose in it. Parking was another issue on stu- dentfs minds. There were not enough parking places on campus and no one wanted to have to walk far. If they would take out the grass medians and if people would use the field house park- ing lot we wouldn't have any prob- lems, said Chuck Yeargain. Elvis Presley's death was a sad but true comment of back-to-school. Though only a few people at Memorial were really affected by his death, all knew who he was and had some appre- ciation of him as an artist. He died at the age of 42 on the night of August 16, of cardiac arrythmia. It's sad because he's from a different time than ours and I think he's better than some of today's stars, said Elaine Momburger. But the only thing that really upset me was how all the different Stories went around about how he died. - 30 - - Nancy Wright Making the most of it I7