Pflugerville High School - Panther Paw Yearbook (Pflugerville, TX)

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Old Town Grows The town of Pflugerville has done much growing since it was founded. But. the town is not the only thing in which changes and growing has occurred. Throughout the years the Pflugerville school system has been improving, i The education received by the first settlers was limited. The first school was a one-room building north of the old Wainscott Creek. Classes were taught by traveling missionaries and by pastors of all denominations. From this location the school was moved to the Carrington Ranch. In 1907. a two-story white brick building was built and completed at a cost of $5,000.00. It was located in the northwest part of town. An elementary classroom was built adjacent to the school at a later date. In 1921, a new two-story red brick school was built where the present middle school now stands. At this time four rural elementary schools were also built and consolidated with the Pflugerville town school. They were Highland. Center Point. Dessau and Rowe. ? In the late 30 s, a Mexican school was built west of town near the Negro school. In 1955, a new elementary school was completed, leaving the red building for High school only. In 1957. a tornado knocked off the north side of the high school. At the end of the school year, the old building was torn down and a modern school and gym were built. That is what the middle school is now. Classes started in 1958. In 1965, upon integration of schools, the Negro school was moved on campus to serve as classrooms. Due to the rapid growth of our school enrollment, a modern high school was built west of Pflugerville in 1973. Many changes have taken place in the Pflugerville school district since it was first founded. The changes are still not over yet. At the present, the high school is being enlarged and a third elementary school is being planned. Pflugerville is having to be built to house more people and the sizes of the old schools are increasing. This view from the library window overlooks Swensons dairy farm. Seeing cows grazing across the street was a bit of serenity in midst of craziness. Last year Windermere opened on the north side of 1825 Housing projects on the south side started this year Here the Golden Fried Chicken restaurant is in the early stages At the beginning of the 1984-85 school year, additions were started on the High School to help house the influx of students coming into the Pflugerville school district Traffic started to pose a serious problem even in downtown Pflugerville. This year turning left out of the high school parking lot often took 5 minutes of waiting. OLD PFLUGERVILLE 19

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A u . Photo by Noel Wagnef Architecture in downtown Pflugerville dates back to the 1920 s and earlier This peaceful Saturday in early October was not typical. By December Main Street traffic made Pflugerville people seem to double. 18 OLD PFLUGERVILLE

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1984 Current Events Turn to History Happy Birthday to you.” the Statue of L iberty celebrated her 98th birthday in 1984. A present given to the lady was a nation wide funded facelift, restoring the historic gift from France to its original beauty. While the lady celebrated her birthday. Michael Jackson toured more than a dozen cities in his Victory Tour. Jackson won 8 Grammy Awards for his album Thriller. In other mtertainment news. Robert Duvall received an Oscar for his role of a washed-up country singer overcoming alcoholism in Tender Mercies Best picture award was given to Terms of Endearment with Jack Nicholson winning best supporting actor and Shirley MacLaine winning best actress. Linda Hunt of The Year of Living Dangerously. earned best supporting actress. A flash news bulletin explained . . . Miss America Vanessa Williams was forced to sur- render her crown by pageant officials because she had posed nude for sexually explicit photos. Suzette Charles, first runner-up. ac- cepted the crown. On the tragic side of 1984 United States Marines arrived in Beirut, in 1982. In 1984 they left 260 dead. In other news. Napoleon Duarte was elected president in El Salvador. International observers called this the most open and free election in that country in 50 years. Speaking of presidential elections Ronald Reagan and George Bush sought election in re-election in 1984. Running against the Republican party was the history-making Democratic party. Walter Mondale and the first woman to be named vice presidential run- ning mate. Geraldine Ferraro. Reagan and Bush retained the office once again by having the biggest electoral vote in the nation s history. 49 states with 49% of the total vote. Sports news in 1984. we saw records set and broken It also saw the top male and female athletes of the year perform their feats. The 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles saw Carl Lewis, top male athlete of the year, double the feat of J. C. Jesse Owens, by winning four gold Medals in the same events as Owens had in 1932. America's sweetheart. Mary Lou Retton. top female athlete of the year, won the all- around gold meadals in gymnastics and led the U.S. gymnastics team to the silver medal. The U.S. won 83 gold medals. 61 silver and 30 bronze. The 1984 Olympics also saw the Soviet Union and other Communist countries boycott the Olympics. The Winter Olympics in Yugoslavia saw the U.S. win 4 gold medals and 4 silver medals. Anchoring the U.S. were Scott Hamilton and Steve Mahre. In baseball news, the Detroit Tigers won the World Series by downing the San Diego Padres 4 games to 1. In the Wild World of Football. Walter Payton, running back for the Chicago Bears, set a new standard of total career rushing yards. The previous 12.312 yards mark was held by Jim Brown of the Cleveland Browns. Superbowl XIX saw the two best teams in pro football go head-to-head. Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers led the 37-13 victory over the Miami Dolphins. Some trivia for the trivial minds: 1984 saw mission specialist Bruce McCandless walk in space, a quick stroll to stretch his legs on an 8 day space mission from the Shuttle Challenger. Princess Diana gave birth to Prince Henry late in '84. This birth gives two-year-old Prince Wiliam a little brother. Yes. 1984. the year of controversey, ex- citement. history making, record breaking and tragedy. Still leaving way for more news and new faces to rise to the tops in 1984. by Jesse Gutierrez WASHINGTON. Jan. 21 — I RONALD REAGAN — President Ronald Reagan repeats the oath of office of the president as his wife Nancy holds the Bible during the ceremony under the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington Monday Chief Justice Warren Burger is at right