Paris High School - Owl Yearbook (Paris, TX)

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Dragging out the chains, Ser- geant Wooten prepares to hang the stop sign on the east driveway exit. Announcing an ad sponsored by a Paris business firm, Brett Bercher demonstrates his DJ skills as Brian Temple awaits his turn at the Key CIub's Radio Day. Serving coffee at a faculty get- together, Eileen Emmite and Diedre Ftedell use the silver serving set. Club members often held faculty coffees in the teacher's lounge every week, ti 4 1 V A , .ir its I , is tiff Wade's Park provided a place for many students to gather and have fun. Sophomore girls gossip on ine of the many picnic tables ere. W. living

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li . 8 living morning, Mind-boggling excuses HOOD, flooded from students V1 and night Cconfinued from page 61 albouty Hall was the rendezvous place for all who had acquired a growling stomach between first and second period, and according to popular controversy, one also had to acquire a taste for the food served there. l-lalbouty Hall, which was named after the man who donated the sixty acres of land on which the school was placed, was more commonly known as the cafeteria or lunch room. Due to closed campus conditions, all students were required to eat from any of the three main meals served. The hot lunch, hamburger, and snack bar lines were all popular, yet a few students who evaded the policeman onthe parking lot managed to eat Out, After lunch and before third period started, students again congregated around the halls posing problems for students and teachers who ate during B and C lunches. When the weather was good, many students just gathered around outside with friends before classes started. Third period ended at 12:35 p.m. and school was back to a degree of normality. Even during classes, the halls as class-cutting became an organized pastime were never entirely empty. Students claiming they were sick or that they needed to visit the bathroom or counselor, sometimes truthfully and sometimes not, were usually let out of class. Excuses ranged from have to go get some paper, to l left someone waiting on the telephone before l came to class. Teachers usually experienced such alibis near the end of the class period. Pep rallies were usually held every Friday, twenty minutes into fourth period lasting until any time in the hour of fifth period. Probably the rowdiest behavior of the day occurred in the gym during pep rallies as class yells rallied back and forth while cheerleaders made successful attempts to fire everyone up and lead the team on to victory later that night. As fifth and sixth periods concluded with the last bell ot the day sounding at 3:50 p.m. a maddening rush of blurring bodies leaving school was a mind- boggling phenomenon that occurred every day. Often, it was lucky that students returned home safely due to the extreme anxiousness displayed as they drove wrecklessly off the parking lot. Ccontinued on page 10j Taking time out to play around in the C' d A L' P K li sun, in y ssay, isa ynes, e Kyle Julie Somoza and Cindy Slat , , e enjoy the park this summer.

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H . 1 D living n 1 Students as weII.as teaichers devoted extra curricular time a er n school- but watched out tor weekends and night Ccontinued from page 81 routines during the ffef the majority of football season every day people had left the building, the school was not yet completely empty. People in several organizations came to attend meetings, but the regulars of the after school crowd belonged to the publications, athletic, and fine arts departments. Work on the Owl lasted until all hours of the night in some cases. Athletes stayed beyond school hours and depending upon the season, some stayed for practices while others began competition later on in the day. Band members practiced on halt-time Many times clubs held their parties in a members home at night. At the French Club Halloween party, Deidre Kerr makes her entrance at Amy Swaim's house. Despite rising prices of tickets and transportation, many still enjoyed the movies. Jimmy Dickson and Karol Moseley prepare to watch Kramer vs. Kramer. except Fridays until 5:30 in the evening, and sometimes having to return to school again to learn and work out new songs at 7:00 p.m. Rehearsing plays, drama members returned to school after everyone else had left. Actors and crews stayed late working on the two major fine arts productions of Hello Dolly! and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. As dawn enveloped the city and the world around it, students began revving up their cars for a leisurely cruise up and down the main and Saturday nights were the most active ot all nights in the week. Collegiate Drive, Lamar and Clarksville Avenues, common business routes by day, replaced mother and father's automobiles with their teenagers' jacked-up, super- charged cars. It usually all began around 8:30 p.m. Teenagers running a comb through their hair one more time and brushed their teeth once more for good measure. Rock and roll pulsating wheels backed out of driveways anticipating the nightlife to come. They drove endlessly back and forth a tar-