Richardson High School - Eagle Yearbook (Richardson, TX)

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Summer Amusement Parks!State Fair! VacationsfWorkshops!Camp Getting Started Before School!Traditions!First Day Features Faculty 8z Students New Administration!Student-Teacher Relations!Motivated Students Entertainment Movies!TV!Video Games! Computers!Concerts!Music Trends Eating Establishments!Dieting! Weight Lifting!Fads and Fashions Social Studies Dating!After Game Dances!Pearce RivalrylSpirit Week!Homecoming Rallies 8z Assemblies Pep Rallies!Olympics!Assemblies Move Over, World Space InvasionlTransportation!Current Events Table Turning Carousel of Roses!TWIRP Student Life

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Stud Behind every book number, locker number and library number, there is a student. And behind every student, there is a life at once very far removed from and very dependent upon life at school. For many students, school is a duty grudgingly fulfilled in order to get to the more important matters of parties, friends and having a good time. School days are counted and suffered through until Friday afternoon when all thoughts of academics are shoved aside for the frantic, concentrated unwinding of the weekend. ' My whole life, explained senior Karen Patchett unhesitatingly. I mean it feelsj like I'm at school all the time. 0 1 Despite efforts to escape for ag short time, a student's social life' will never be totally distinct from school life. As an activity that can take up as much as 5095 of one's waking moments, there simply isn't enough time to develop a social life entirely' independent from school. Friends, parties, dates and dances often must begin in the school for the sake of time . . . if nothing else. I really feel that school plays a big part of my social life. After all that's where I meet my friends, said Sophomore Stacy Brown. But just as school is a great in- fluence on social life, social life is a large part of school. More is learned in the classroom than how to spell the names of 'obscure historical figures. Just as impor- tant are the social lessons being learned everyday in halls, in the classrooms, in the cafeteria and in the gym. How to work with others, how to be a friend, how to get along with different types of people are lessons that will be us- ed for the rest of one's life. - Melissa Hartman Students cool off working at a car wash on a hot summer day. Student Life nt Lif I N .J - v . , , I A gggg if ' aa . wi A- V , ff If Y.. I A ,, V. , ri , I , V il. ,' H J' 'it ' 4 , Ll - Jobs take up a lot of TWIRP and other dances provide a Students gather in the cour- students' time after school. chllseill the llluslweskeld- tysrd t0 discuss Saturday Billit- l x 5 ? i l t i X

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Waves and Whether be- ing dropped f r o m s e v e n stories above g r o u n d o r riding a giant wave was their goal, students didn't have to venture far. I think that I went to Six Flags three times this sum- mer, commented senior Jim Thal, because of the crowds and all, I always tell myself I'll never go back, but I always do. Why do students keep returning to places like Six Flags? Junior David Lamar summed it up this way: It always has something new to offer, for instance, this year it was the Texas Cliffhangerf' A new addition to summer fun was the opening of White Water, a park which con- sisted of a series of water slides and pools whose main objective was to soak everyone there. One big at- traction was the oceanlike wave tank. I had to save two ladies Rides Provide Escape Summer Doldrums Flee and some kid in the wave pool. They just came crashing up against the side and I pulled them out, remembered senior John Wing. It was incredible. Some students traveled out of Texas and visited parks abroad. I went to Disneyworld three times last summer, said junior Patty Crowell. Senior Mike Elam also vacationed in Disneyworld. The best thing out there were the girls and Space Mountain, said Elam. October brought an ex- citing addition to the amuse- ment park scene. The freaks, like the fat- test man, the tallest and smallest horses, were what I liked most, explained sophomore Jon Henderson of his first time at the State Fair. Like others, he ate corndogs and hot dogs, saw the freak shows, rode a few rides, and played a few games. Although Jon hadn't originally planned on going, he was glad he did and plans to go again next year. The State Fair had no trouble fulfilling its cam- paign promise of being Texas at its most. It in- cluded everything from rodeo and college football to Yul Brynner performing in The King and I and, of course, Big Tex. Sophomore Arnold Molina, who loves the fair, feels that he must go at least twice while it's in town and goes mainly to look at the ex- hibits, watch the people and ride the rollercoasters. And as senior Carolyn Cole so adeptly put it, It's a great place to meet new people. - Mark Hemphill, Kathleen Southards Amusement Parks Six Flags' newest roller coaster, Judge Roy Scream takes on a whole new look at night. Riders zoom along the 3,500 ft. long track of Six Flags Shock Wave at an average spee of 60 m.p.h.