Robert E Lee High School - Lee Traveler Yearbook (Baytown, TX)

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Sleeping In Taking brakes' Stopping to relax Every week is so hectic! 1 have so much homework in Calculus, plus band, orchestra, and everything1 My teachers love to give homework1 Lee students probably agreed with Michael Morris (12) when he commented on how many responsibilities he had in one week of this 36 week school year. One thing that may have gotten everyone through one week after another was weekends. Without a break. I d die!' exclaimed Sally Fermin (10) Ginger Ash (12) confess that she lives for weekends. According to Joessetta Beaudion (10). The best thing about the end of the week is finally getting a chance to sleep! Relaxing may have been the favorite pas- time of Robert E. Lee students, with Mary McKenzie (12) loving to sleep'' and An- dre Morgan (12) loving to be lazy. There were other things that people found relaxing. Maria Garcia t9) said that. When 1 relax. 1 read books. and Tim Mixon (12) chose to play my gui tar. Everyone seemed to have found something to do with their spare time, even if they weren't getting a whole lot accomplished. Summing it up was Billy Higginbotham (12) who said . I d rather be dotng nothing than something any- time. Rabecea Gan and Kathlaan Alfred decide to do nothing tor a while Roaa Ramirez and Anthony Ceballoe rrm in the commons alter a long day at Lee High. 26

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Album - $9 Cassette - $9 Compact Disc - $13 Compact Disc Player - $200-$500 Concert Ticket (Legal) $16 Concert Ticket (Scalper) - up to $200 Movie Ticket - $4.75 Movie Rental - $2-$3 V.C.R. - $200-$500 Astroworld Ticket - $14.95 School Dance Admission - $3-$4 Senior Fish Fry Ticket - $5 Senior Prom Ticket - $30 Limo Rental - $150-$250 Night Senior Ring (Gold Band) - $125-$285 Traveler Yearbook - $35 Gander Gazette - .25$ Club Dues - $5-$10 Cliff's Notes - $3 Seventeen Magazine - $1.50 Rolling Stone Magazine - $1.95 Swatch watch - $30 Guess Jeans - $48 Leather Reebok Hi-Tops - $50 Ropers Boots - $75-$ 185 Driver's Ed. $100 Candy Bar - .40$ Can Of Coke .50$ Big Mac - $1.40 MacDLT - $1.59 Chicken MacNuggets - $1.42 Whataburger - $1.55 Headliners Making Waves 1985 May • new Coke introduced; rejected by the public Summer • release of the movie First Blood, Part II starring Sylvester Stallone unleashed ‘‘Rambo mania” July - old” Coke reincarnated: renamed Coke Classic July 13 • Over 1 billion people watched and listened as the Live Aid concert played in London and Philadelphia to help relieve the starving in Africa; as a result, organizer Bob Geldof was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize November 8 • Ambassadors from Japan came to visit Robert E. Lee, which they considered to be a pnme example of a model American high school 1986 January 28 - the nation mourned as 7 astronauts lost their lives when the space shuttle Challenger exploded during lift-off February 19 - Prince Charles made a stop in Highlands to visit a nursing home there during his royal visit to the U.S. March - gasoline pnces dropped from $1.02 to .63 r per gallon for regular, and from $1.04 to .65$ per gallon for unleaded, as the unemployment rate in Baytown soared April 14 - The U.S. bombed Libya in reaction to Khadafy's repeated acts of terrorism April 21 • Texas Sesquicentennial celebration held at the San Jacinto Monument n

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Beverly Goff Tamara Neiderhoffer Taraaa Surio» and Shannon Henderson take a brake' from I hair dasawork to bo tnonds Dan Roger «topa In Iho hall lo make Tiffany Him lay Laugh Stephanie Dean hx « her make up while Mandy Hart « k$ on wilh cunoeity Jimmy WaUtaad spenrfo tnx weekend time at a football game Vicki Cox decide to take a nap no matter what anyone else doe