Pine Bluff High School - Zebra Yearbook (Pine Bluff, AR)

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Feet first. This year there are many styles of fashion for feet. Gator aid. Laura Rush and Paul Makris are Izod fans. See ya’ later alligator. The lzod alligator has become a mark of prestige. La Conqulstadora. Mrs. Primm keeps young by matching her students. 29 A Look Ahead At The ’80s

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Cross over. These slipper-shoes combine fashion and comfort. Army drags. While wearing army pants. Lori McKenzie laughs at one of her jokes. A LOOK AHEAD TO THE ’80S CONT. Between acts we were entertained by our own dancing Zebra, Reggie Paulk, and a group of modern precision dancers. The Human Tornadoes, under the direction of Debbie Robinson that brought thunderous applause from all. As the cast came out for a final line-up, we all knew that a tradition had begun. But we don’t find fashion just in show cases. Anywhere on campus the searching eye will spot such things as straight leg jeans, buttondown collars, Izod shirts, and this year’s new fashion twist for girls, penny loafers and the socks with skirts. Even as fashions continue the trend and repeat themselves, returning us to the days of flares and minis, we’ll still remember this year’s fashions as a year of I classicism and class.

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Awakening May 25, 1880, marked an important event in Pine Bluff history, for on that Tuesday evening was celebrated the first graduation of Pine Bluff High School students. At the Main Street Methodist Church, a total of five students graduated, each giving a speech on topics such as, “Night Brings out the Stars”, “Stilts”, and “Our Grandmothers and their Granddaughters”. That class and the many after it, went out and built Pine Bluff to what we know it as today. Of course, we know about its shortcomings, such as the smell from the paper mill, famous throughout the state, but Pine Bluff has much to offer, and the good far outweighs the bad. Pine Bluff offers fine entertainment such as our grand Convenion Center, but we also keep the small town pace, with plenty of fresh air and “growing space”. Pine Bluff is a tree with a solid trunk and deep roots. This, the second oldest settlement in Arkansas, has lived through catastrophes such as bloody fighting in the Civil War, strange predictions of a holocaust which would destroy Pine Bluff in 1903, a flood ruining much of the downtown area, and a fire that destroyed one of our oldest landmarks, the courthouse. Much has changed since that graduating class one hundred years ago. The Pine Bluff High School yearbook originally called the PINE CONE, became known as the ZEBRA, to celebrate the football team’s winning of the state championship. The graduation attire has changed from white linen suits and organdy dresses to the “traditional” red cap and gown. The town itself has grown from a dusty strip called Main Street to the sprawling new town we know today. Through the years, few things have changed. The favorite pastime, dragging Cherry, is nothing new. When the street was opened, it was quite a place to see and be seen with your horse and buggy. It was dragged in the early part of the century by “horseless carriages” and today, the tradition remains. If those five seniors of 1880 could come to the 1980 graduation of 598 students, surely they would be shocked. We cannot help but feel that they would be at home.