Nimitz High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Irving, TX)

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I tping senior tacke Waylon Har- ove's ankle is concerned Bob right, team trainer. k if 54. A wire-and-paper rainbow is cre- Vtted for the senior class, with the ielp of Mary Ann Butts. - A... We -answer Style and content are vital factors to English teacher Gail Kent, while going over a composition. if-lt True friends lthough some might not admit it, there was a close teacher-student relation- ship that bound them together throughout the year. A unity that ran through them like a golden thread, creating a pleasant atmos- phere and good working condi- tions. Numerous scholars depended on various teachers for different reasons. Some teachers often helped an ailing grade average by assigning extra credit work to grateful students: others explained a difficult problem after school. STUDENT LIFE

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Waitin for the crowd to leave the g m a ter a pep rally as senior y F Ierri Cantwell. Continuing to wear his spirit, even in class. is lack Harkrider. GUR SPIRIT After the pep rallies The cheering was over and knots of students crowded their way to the various exits. Football team members used their usual exit through the left gym door. After they had gone the rest of the student body and teachers who came to watch the rally proceeded to the exits at the bottom of the stands. The gym had emptied, and the paper wrappers and forgotten coats were all that remained from the morning rally. No one remem- bered the hours of work that had gone into preparing the props, the practicing of the cheers and rou- tines. Thoughts now were directed toward the coming day's activi- ties. The rush of confusion between getting from the gym to the hallways often found Mr. Curry or Mr. Winn reminding the teachers that the pep rally had ended and to corral the remaining students into rooms. The excite- ment now moved to the hallways inside the building as they slowly filled with students and the administration. When the pep rally ended. it signaled the begin- ning of another Friday. Classes went on with an occasional sight- ing of a Vika in her blue gingham outfit, or a football player in his blue knit team shirt, bearing the Viking emblem on the shoulder. When Saturday finally arrived. the 7:30 football game became partially a social event where we went to see our friends. It wasn't the prototype that we would all imagine. The game ended and everyone headed for Pizza Hut or Pizza Inn to talk over the rest of the weekend. Q Embarrassed by her strange attire after a pep ra ly is cheerleader Ann Dean. STUDENT LIFE

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Coaches guided their athletes down the road of development. They trained us to meet our poten- tial, helped to develop our best skills, and become a good friend. Without them, there would have been no teams, and many of us would have been injured, not knowing the correct way to warm- up or how to run a certain play. Many teachers sponsored clubs or organizations for us, so we could share a common interest with others. I really like sponsor- ing the National Honor Society. I really get along well them. We are just one big family, said Mrs, Ste- phens. A good teacher-student rel- ationship helped many of us see school as a pleasant duty, and made the year go by faster. It also seemed to make it easier to obtain that hard-worked-for piece of paper. . .the diploma.. An ironic smile creeps across Chemistry teacher Don Marsh's face as he listens to a student. 'T X Checking over papers is just on of the tasks teacher Don Killian per- forms. Pulling in extra hours as a co and history teacher, jane M takes time to correct a quiz. STUDENT LIFE