Nimitz High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Irving, TX)

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A journey Through Thehaffs usT as The halls never seemed big enough Tor us To have room To do whaTever we wanTed wiThouT running over a Triend, so our liTe space in The world never seemed To TiT our sTyle, or give us enough Treedom To do whaT we wanTed. When we were small, sTill in grade school, Tiny, brighT halls resembled our lives which were Tied only To our parenTs, who always kepT a TighT rein on us. There was always someone older and wiser waiTing Mr. Curry wafches as sTudenTs hurry To Their nexT class. around The nexT corner To puT us back in line, Then came The noT so big, buT so imporTanT move To iunior high. Up anoTher sTep buT sTill on The boTTorn of The pile, as we moved on To new expe- riences. A liTTle more Treedom was enjoyed as mom and dad loosened The apron sTrings and Tried To leT us grow. As big as The halls oT The school, we never Though+ we would Tind our way around. Then we were on Top of The sTack and couldn'T waiT To move ouT of The Tiny space ThaT bound us during The day. We wenT on To high school. wiTh more and more halls To blindly Teel our way around, going in every direcTion, as were The ideas and dreams we all held so dear. SiTuaTions we never knew beTore, we walked inTo blindly, noT knowing which way was up or ouT. AlThough we had Trouble and shorTcomings, we always seemed To come ouT on Top and realiTy was pro- foundly richer Than any dream we ever had. hall wiTh Treshrnan. John Poder and Frank l-lamilTon have Tun in The Class is ouT, everyone is happy Tor Tive more minuTes. waiTing Tor The end of The day. running... PhoTographers ge-T curious glances and geshires Trorn passing sTudenTs. STUDENT LIFE

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Hours spenf for s,oi'riT awaro' eTail The Tigers or Wrinkle The Rebels . l-Tours were spenT Thinking up These sayings and puTTing Them down on paper wiTh gallons oT painT. The person behind The brush painTed. while malcing sure each leTTer was even: ThaT each word could be seen clearly, so ThaT each person could undersTand The meaning behind The sign. ATTer signs were compleTed To The arTisT's saTisTacTion, They were leTT To dry unTil Friday morning - when They were hung To be viewed by all aT each pep rally. Sign painTing parTies served Two main pur- poses, They gave each class a chance To show Bernard Shauffer, senior Toreign exchange sTudenT Trorn SwiTzerland. conTribuTes his Time To sign painT- iusT how much spiriT They had, and They broughT sTudenTs TogeTher To enioy each oTher's com- pany while They worked. WheTher sTudenTs gaThered in The halls aT school. or wheTher They meT aT someones home. The signs never Tailed To geT done. Early on Friday mornings. while The cheerleaders were pracTicing and The band members were Tiling in, Those same sTudenTs who painTed The signs were up aT The gymnaf siurn hanging Them up. lT Took a loT of hard worlc To geT Them To loolr as good as possible buT iT paid oTT when The class was presenTed The SpiriT Award. Sophomores painTed signs Tor The Friday pep rallies ouTside Miss Piers room in The WesT Hall. il. ,nv Qavv-ow. unw- in STUDENT LIFE M44 Senior Cindy Sanford ouTlines a sign before painTing. Freshman Sharon Mason conTribuTed many aTTer-hours painTing signs Tor The pep rally.

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H Wasn'r1'rgrand7 usTle pusTle. Hurry To classlu Move over. 'TYou're in my way. T'Don'T shuT The loclcerlll Canl sTand here? Yell louderli' l'Can'T you hear me? ls everyone here? 'Tl won'T TiT. Can you come? Oh no . . . l'm laTel T'LeT's move downf' Clap now. Ticheer now. Cheer Tor a Touchdownlm Wasn'T iT grand To be shoved, pushed. moved, or sTepped on every day when you arrived To The crowded hallways oT good ole' NimiTz? lT would have seemed like mass conTusion To a ToTal sTranqer. buT Tor us, iT was an everyday Thing. We had our own liTTle crowd. and we were always TogeTher. There was always someone wiTh a new ioke, someone wiTh a hearTbrealc. and a Triend who was always There To lis- Ten. l'm going ThaT way, or al leasT ThaT seems To be The loolc Thaf comes Trom This sTudenT. Mindy Slerling, Susan Heine and friends walch a parTicipanT in The Greelc Olympics, perlorm The sTand and iump. Smiling 'faces and happy places include David Peiser, Sammy Wood, STeve Mayo and Their happy Triends in The courTyard. 22 STUDENT UFE lx