Paris High School - Owl Yearbook (Paris, TX)

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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-

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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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- friends, a new face, or iust something to do. All- time favorite hangouts were the Sonic Drive-ln, Pizza lnn, and the 7-11 on Clarksville Avenue. Students drove through and passed by these landmarks so many times only to look for a little weekend action. Heavy daters could be found at the Cinema I-Il or the Grand Theatre watching a movie, at any of the twenty or so eating placesaround tovvn, or just riding around like everyone else. So much for a day in the lives of the high school student. Everyone ljust took lite as it came 4 day by day. good use ol the Learning located at P,J.C., Susan checks the microfilm for assist- her research paper. l i I Explaining the selling procedure for tickets to the motion picture Joni Mr. Glenn Billingsley lectures to the Key Club and Keywanettes. Trying Io lend some assistance, Kirk Cobb consoles Toni Coleman v ralls as Sher Kin over her torn 0 e ry g sits flat on her rear alter a tragic tall. living 1 1