North Mesquite High School - Trailblazer Yearbook (Mesquite, TX)

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Div? Vlfitl-iii Posing Time. Linda and Leigh Ann show off as Pacesetters. Upside down. Debbie shows her best side for the camera. be f., N-,...,,N Xie Video Freak. Claire Taylor is caught by surprise at the Malibu Raceway. Now, now you guysll Pausing only for a moment, Mr. Flon Taylor continues with his orders. Trailblazer Staff 25

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Annual Memories Every morning at 7:30, the annual room is suddenly filled with noise. Eleven annual staff members sit in a cramped room waiting for another eventful day. Would it be full of staff meetings, or Rodney giving orders, or Paul screaming through the walls at teachers. Or would it be full of Debbie snorting her laughter through the halls? Yesterday's quad-paks lying on the floor and everywhere else cause Mr. Taylor to insist on getting more organized. Steve sits at his desk looking over the current events, most of course, of Lady Diana. Leigh Ann talks so softly that she is hardly ever heard and sometimes never seen. Linda sits at her desk writing her award- winning copy and preparing next year's book as editor. Claire is busy with drama photos and modeling books, while Kari sits feverishly typing. Edward sits fumbling through fashion magazines to find photos for the fad section. Leanne quietly sits at her desk and reads the latest best seller. And the last person is Jill who fights with the coaches trying to come up with heads - goodness - those heads!! These eleven hard- Welcome mats. Debbie, Linda, and Kari hide from the wind. 24 Trailblazer Staff working students dedicate themselves night and day to produce an award-winning yearbook. Memories happen throughout the year that must be taken down and photographed for the yearbook. The annual staff's responsibility is to make sure that these memories remain vivid ten or twenty years from now. Through months of Rodney and PauI's antics and Debbie and Linda's rivalries between Pacesetters and Band, the annual staff seemed to get the work done. The deadlines were met and Mr. Taylor even bought desk organizers and wire baskets and - of course - our very own tubs. The arrival of the new oak cabinet only made things that much more crowded. As the end of the year approached, the tensions broke and the parties began. One last final trip to Malibu Grand Prix made the work seem less monotonous and all the staff, remembering the good times and the bad, realized that pulling together made a winning combination. s One Last Dance. Editor Rodney dances with his idol, at a Restaurant in Denton. .fe-Wiki, Annual Staff members are: Leanne Glenn Phillips, Debbie Burchfield, Goolsby, Edward Abarquez, Steve Linda Boroughs, Leigh Ann Lacy, Reed, Paul Wade, Rodney Nanez, Johnson, Kari Ryle, and Claire Taylor

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Between Lines The door to the journalism room opened to seventeen students feverishly working on the Pony Express. One immediately senses the anxiety of the approaching deadline. As Ms. Janet Jones stated, Deadlines can best be described as World War Ill, As the World Turns, and Nightmare Alley rolled into a one week period. The interesting phenomenon about the day after deadline is that everyone turns back from Hyde to Jekyl again, and the cycle repeats itself for every issue. No matter how chaotic the staff seemed, they always produced an award winning paper. During the summer, staffers attended a workshop at Mountain View College. Gwen Meazell won Best the Newspaper Design and the staff received Best Overall. In District UIL, Gwen Meazell placed first in News and second in Features, while Becky Stuard received first place for headlines and third for Editorials. ln the ILPC state competition, Paul Wade received a second place metal for one of his feature photos. The paper also received the best of Dallas from the Dallas Time Herald In summing up the year, editor Gwen Meazell explained, The staff has been a conglomeratlon of seventeen very different people into a corporation that produced nine spectacular issues of the paper. I loved every minute of it! Photographers. Steve Trew and Paul Wade. IW! 26 Pony Express Sports. Stephen Collins and Tony McGary. Features. Maleah Shero, Robyne Fteynolds, editor, Lena Carroll, asst. ed., and Becky Wells.