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

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“The emphasis this year was layout and design. Next year well work harder on content,” said editor Karen Brown. ; The manager from Malibu Grand Prix explains the mechanics behind a race car to junior Randy Pogue Pogue suggested the newspaper statt earn extra money sponsoring a Panther night at First year newspaper reporter and photographer. Woody Patrick, lunior. revises a baseball story for the April edition of the Panther The first newspaper ever printed at Pflugerville High School was in 1924 and called The High School BOOSTER . The building in the picture is what the school looked like when it was first built The 1984-85 Newspaper staff was Seated: Jesse Gutierrez. Jaimie Wilkerson, Darren Taylor. Woody Patrick; Kneeing: Philip Knobloch; Standing: Ms. Ostas. Kyle Patrick. Missy Gewin. Randy Pogue. Karen Brown. Cindi Duffey. Leslie Kaiser. Gwynda Horton. Stuart Spoonemore Along with the responsibility of staff reporter on the Prowler. Missy Gewin was editor- in-chief of the first annual literary magazine at Pflugerville High. Senior Stuart Spoonemore was caught writing another of his sarcastic editorials. J NEWSPAPER 51

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ecouifazfeen. A Change of Style Brings Great Results After going to Dallas to the Texas Journalism Director's Con- ference. Karen Brown told me the staff wanted to take all the produc- tion responsibility on themselves. I said okay, and from that point on, we saw the biggest improvement in newspaper design we've ever had. Karen deserves most of the credit. She mixed slave driving and in- genuity and produced a darn good paper this year, said Ms. Deborah Ostas, journalism advisor. Layout changes were the focal point according to Karen Brown. I look at other schools' papers, magazine layouts, national newspapers and somehow the layouts just fall into place, commented Brown. I really don’t know where it comes from other than that, she added. Brown implemented grey screens, type size and style variations, more photographs and added four pages. The last issue. Brown talked the staff into selling more ads to afford a 16 page paper with color. Gwynda Horton, junior, took over bookkeeping responsibilities in January. Although the paper had managed to keep in the black with previous ad manager. Troy Isreal. the books were incomplete. Horton straightened out the records. It was just plain hard getting started. I didn't know what I was do- ing. It was sink or swim and somehow the swimming was easier, Hor- ton said. I guess Ms. Ostas helped, but I really don’t remember. The hardest part was reorganizing the disorganization without knowing what the organization was supposed to be like, added Horton. Junior Cindi Duffey joined the business department to help Horton. Duffey was able to use sales techniques she learned at her regular job at Figure World to help increase newspaper ad sales. The two girl's teamwork financed the last 5 issues which ran between $580 and $900 per issue depending on numbers of graphics used. The more modern newspaper could never have been accomplish- ed if Horton and Duffey had not joined forces to finance us. The school does not put money of any kind into the monthly issues. The staff is solely responsible for financial solvency,” said Ostas. Content of the paper did not change much this year. Randy Pogue’s movie review column was popular as he reviewed even controversial movies like Porky's Revenge which Pogue said could be dangerous to the blush glands of the female gender. Sophomore Jaimie Wilkerson analyzed the current crazes in music. Discussing the use of make-up for male performers and the moral and the ethical status of new craze Madonna raised some eyebrows as well as some comments. The editorial page was constantly in discussion as Rahul Majahan. senior, roasted athletes who ignored academics. Later in the year, editor Brown and editorial commentator Stuart Spoonemore attacked the nonchalant attitude of students who pretended drugs were no big deal. Both encouraged students to use peer pressure to stop drug use among friends. When I think about the controversy our paper brought about this year. I get both proud and tired. I’m proud that I did not see the Prowler littering the hallways. I'm proud to see classes and classes reading and thinking about the ideas we presented. I am proud of my staff who learned to stick together and support each other despite the rousting they got from other students. Publishing a newspaper is a real pain, but worth it for watching my staff work on a business pro- ject that has literary value. said Ostas. 7 Ve never been so motivated by a conference and I really en- joyed myself. Meeting other ‘newspaper people’ was the highlight of the conference for me, said junior Karen Brown 50 NEWSPAPER

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'HWS NHS Induction On May 2nd, National Honor Society inductions were held at Pflugerville High School. Inducted into the NHS were Barbara Hees, Carrie Hays, Mike Yokie. Dana Clanton, Suzanne McNutt, Thanh Lein, and Scott Vaca. The requirements for inductions into NHS are scholarship, leadership, character, and service. The student should be following college bound plan for an academic diploma. Students must have been enrolled in the school one full semester prior to induction to be considered for membership. Membership will be open to all qualified juniors and seniors. Students should not have a failing grade on their official transcript. Eligibility is based on a cumulative scholastic average of 92.5 excluding athletic periods. Students are chosen by a five member faculty council consisting of Coach D.A. Swope, Mrs. Carolyn Thompson, Ms. Cherry Porter, Ms. Cherry Porter, Ms. Sue Ridlehuber, and Ms. Deloris Schwausch. Guest speaker at the induction was Bryan Farney. He spoke to the inductees on the impor- tance of attaining your goals in whatever you do. Farney is a graduate of PHS with a master's degree from the University of Texas. Ms. Vernagene Mott, NHS sponsor, held the event which was attended by other NHS members. Juniors. Mike Yokie. Barbara Hees, Dana Clayton, Melissa Nichols, seniors Robby Ringstaff, Chris Mottloch, juniors Carrie Hays. Suzanne McNutt, and Scott Vaca eat hardy on huge scoops of ice cream from Swensons. Seniors Mellisa Dickinson. Susan Farney. Lorren Mott. Stephanie Koury. and Karen Zwerman. en- joy a delicious and fattening treat from Swensons after their senior banquet. Mr. L. Bradley, principal, leads the formal induction of the new scholars: Juniors Barbara Hees. Carrie Hays, Than Lien. Suzanne McNutt, and Mike Yokie. Seniors Lorren Mott. Stephanie Koury. and Susan Farney. prepare to order the most expensive thing on the menu Since the juniors are paying why not. 52 NHS