Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Continued from page 209 of out on the floor as they used to do. Administrators thought the 55 chairs would damage the new surface. Varsity football player Gig Settegast did not like sitting on the bleachers. It makes you seem like you're just part of the audience. When you're sitting out on the floor it makes you feel like every- body is cheering for you, Gig said. Sigma Gamma decided that buying a red cushioned carpet would solve the problem. With Principal Wayne Scha- per's consent, Sigma Gamms and the Booster Club bought the red gym car- pet, splitting the cost. This enabled the Varsity players to sit on the gym floor again. Costing S450, the rug will help to keep the tradition of the football play- ers apart from the student body. For a month between October and November. the big flashing sign at Memorial City blinked Go Memorial Go and Memorial has more horse- power 6 times an hour, 24 hours a day. Sigma Gamma paid for the added spirit. The guy let us have it for dirt cheap, said Karen. Karen added that a lot of Varsity players took their Sigma Gamma girls out to dinner after football season was over. WRANGLERS TONE IT DOWN Senior Mark Christiansen, a Wran- gler, said Wranglers had much to do with school spirit, because a lot of underclassmen look up to the seniors so they kinda go along with the spirit. We were trying to be halfway peaceful this year. lf we got caught, it would ruin it for everybody, Mark said. Wranglers have been basically known for beer, hell-raising, and carry- ing onf' he explained. We did a few things. We took one of the schools' mascot we played but we never let it stay at one house for too longf, Mark admitted. Being a Wrangler meant going to a lot of parties. We had at least one party per game. Sometimes we had a party before a game and another after the game. As the season went on. we had more parties, Mark said. Wrangler T-shirts caused no trouble. C onrinued on page 213 Red Hot! tiff N Varsity sits on red carpet Pep Rallies 4 bi 3, WE'RE NUMBER ONE, not two, not three, not four, chants Junior Patty Overly while Junior Kathleen McCarthy eyes her skeptically. Photo by Trent Rosenthal. JAIDES MEMBERS FOR 1977-1978 ARE, BOT- TOM ROW: Barbara Nordmeyer, Ann Marie Pacini, Patti Mahon, Catherine McClesky. TOP ROW: Sherri Masterson, Elise Coleman, Patti Atield, Laurie Will, Lea Sparks, and Kathy Hup- pertz. Photo by Trent Rosenthal. 7 t ' 'frl . ' i r , i , E i AT THE BOTTOM OF A MAN-MADE PYRAMID, cheerleader, John Bone and Andy Mears feel what it's really like to support a team. Aiming to please the student body, the cheerleaders per- formed many more stunts than in the past. lt's fun to throw the girls around, said John Bone. Photo by Darryl Yee.

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Dollars buy cheers Game Days Continued from page 206 ferent junk to do every week so it wasn't boring, said Beth. Boozie and Beth once attempted a kidnapping but it was unsuccessful. We tried to kidnap him at 4:30 a.m. but he wasn't home so we went over to John Schumackeer's house Lhis best friendj. Unfortunately, the girls could not get in the house. Along with cookies and cakes. Boo- zie and Beth also gave Sid pacifiers and diapers, because of his nickname Baby Womack. One other unusual incident was the time Boozie and Beth stole some of Sid's shirts and pants and wore the baggy clothes on game day that week. Boozie and Beth estimated that they spent 5150 on Sid, sometimes spending S20 a weekend on just wrapping his house. We did everything for him, said Beth. Both Boozie and Beth enjoyed being a Samm for Sid. It was a blast. We rowled them up. According to Beth. how much fun you had depended on the guy you got. One of the best uwrapjobs' done on the school, according to many students was the Spring Branch game when the Samms wrapped it. Virtually covered in red and white. streamers and posters covered the school giving it an appearance of a huge colored tent. Many of the Samms stayed up decorating the school that night until ll:l5. J'AIDES OUTPOWER J .V. J OCKS J'aides President Elise Coleman said that most of the J'aides wrapped their player's rooms, brought them cookies and cakes, and wrapped their desks and lockers all football season. Elise's group of five girls bought their football player. Ben Hart, a shirt at Print-a-Shirt that said J.V. Stud. According to Elise, one of the funni- est things they did for Ben was the kid- napping. We kidnapped Ben and four other guys and took them to Interna- tional House of Pancakes. Every girl was nominated. We took the top three and we voted on them, she said. The jocks, with lipstick smeared on their lips, were forced to sing for the J'aides. The girls then took them to the school. Along the way a policeman stopped them. After Karen Ramsey explained the situation they w'ere allowed to go on. We played football then. They were trying to outshow us, but we beat themf, said Elise proudly. ' Elise thinks that the jocks appreci- ated their work. They never tell you but you walk by and hear them talking. you know they dof' she said. Looking around at the wrap job at the school. one Junior Varsity jock said, The thing that's so neat is when you see your name in three feet letters across the front of the school. Cee Cee Connely, also in J'aides. said, They never say anything about it but they get upset if you don't do any- thing. ROLL OUT THE RED CARPET Sigma Gamma is the only spirit group that is allowed to wrap houses and, according to President Karen Pro- venzano, they wrapped a lot of Varsity football players' houses. Karen esti- mated that each group of girls wrapped their guy's house about three times dur- ing the football season. One evening, according to Sigma Gamma member Susan Beamon, about 20 girls went out and wrapped 4 houses. Using about 90 rolls of toilet paper on one house a night, Susan said it got expensive. The six Sigma Gamma girls that wore the shirts with Clay's Classy Chassis printed on the back gave Sen- ior Clay McMordie a dinner one Fri- day night. He liked it a l0t: said Susan Beamon. Approximately 180 girls were in Sigma Gamma. Groups of six girls were assigned to each Varsity Football player. Each group was assigned to one game and they'd get together with four other groups and do a two or three minute skit during that pep rally, said Karen. Karen's group tried to do ingenious things such as wrapping Ed Womack's house outside as well as inside. They gave him a dinner, wrapped his locker and car, and even brought him donuts in the mornings. - Because of a new gym floor, during pep rallies, Varsity Football players had to sit between Sigma Gamma and the Wranglers on the bleachers instead Continued on page 210

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