Ralph Poteet High School - Treasure Chest Yearbook (Mesquite, TX)

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As people editor, MIsti Ashley spent many hours after school and on weekends finishing her section. She inherited the job at midsemester when Rod Washington moved. Editor Janet Brooks reads during the long breaks at UIL competition. She won third place in headline writing, making her eligible for the reglonals. N. TREASURE CHEST STAFF. Row 1 Samia Siddiqui, Encka Wells, Cathy DeBoo, Jennit r Gunn Row 2 Misti Ashley, Came Robinson, Cathy Laughlin, Janet Brooks Row 3 Adviser Marianne Darley. Rod Washington, Dennis Fudge, Jenny Downs ' '

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Make It or Break It Usually when students think of a year- book, they imagine pictures and auto- graphs. However, a yearbook goes much farther than that, as a group of ten stu- dents found out. Yearbook has definitely been an ex- perience! I have learned how to meet deadlines and how to be more respon- sible, Ericka Wells said. But it meant something, being able to record the year for everyone. Yet having the re- sponsibility of pre- serving the school ' s history wasn ' t al- ways enjoyable to staff members. I hate deadlines. No matter how hard I seem to work, I nev- er get done, Cathy Laughlin said. All the hard work paid off. After meet- ing the big spring deadline April 19, the staff was treated to lunch at Pizza Inn during fourth period. They deserved the break after com- pleting 85 percent of the book that early, adviser Marianne Darley said. Yearbook was also an educational ex- perience. I learned more about the school and had fun doing it, Carrie Rob- inson said. (Jenny Downs) ' fs ana H WHAT-) WHERE HOW Along with being a statt member came many responsibilities. Samia Siddiqui prepared several of the layouts in the student life and organizations sections.

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Deadlines and stress, more deadlines and more stress — the newspaper staff certainly had their fair share. Hard work and dedication is what it took to put together the four issues of the paper. Making deadline is pretty hard, especially if you ' re not ac- customed to the huge amount of stress thrown on your shoul- ders, freshman staffer Michael Rangel said. Most staffers deep Knee in deadlines thought that when second period ended that was where newspaper ended. But, au contraire mon frere. That was only the beginning. Some members of the staff spent time out of school to work on newspaper to get the real scoop and to learn more about journalism. Working on newspaper has taught me a lot, editor Gabriel- la Maimone said. I ' ve had to learn to depend on myself and to do my work more efficiently. It ' s the only way to survive. (Mlsli Ashley) - . ;liil!ll! U ililli!!! Organization plays a major role in a journalists day. News editor Sandy Scherer checks what ' s in and what ' s not for her section.