Ross S Sterling High School - Governor Yearbook (Baytown, TX)

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Journey sets mood homecoming It’s Monday. November 9 at 3:05 p.m. As you wait in the unending line at Baker and Garth, you pop your gum. check your hair in the mirror, and push’ Journey’s ESCAPE tape into your cassette player. As the music swells and the band eoes into the now familiar phrase “Don’t Stop Believing. your mind flashes back to the previous week, homecoming... Plans started early in the year with Student Council members. Keywanettes and JRA's all get- ting prepared for the week. The Keyanettes, for the first time, sold silk mums while JRA’s again sold boutonnieres and little sister mums. Mechelle Smith, co-mum chairman for Keywanettes said. The silk mums are a lot nicer than the real flowers because you can keep them. Cutting the stems on all those flowers wasn’t fun. though. I had to get Tommy Townsend to help me with them. Most students agree that when something special and fun is coming up, it takes FOREVER to get ready, and many were wondering just when tney would have time to make all the last minute preparations. Friday was a teacher inservice day so there was no school, but due to a (con’d.) homecoming 17

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As purl of their homecoming respon- sibilities, band member |»eriorm favorites such as The Horse and the Fjght Song at the bonfire. Pinning mums onto a girls shoulder is a tradition that most guys would like to see done away with Andy Jacobs is an exception, though, as ho skillfully places the flower onto Caris» Green's dress Seniors have the honor of collecting wood for the bon fire, but finding bur- nable object was not always easy Roy Cook, however, brought a boat which was donated by his father. 16 homecoming

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Joii icy »cU liioml gas leak at the north edge of the campus, school was let out at 12:50 on Thursday. Traditional- ly, seniors build the bonfire, and this year was no exception. School officials, however, decided that due to the chance of an explosion, the building and burning of the bonfire would be postponed until Fri- day afternoon and the band- sponsored chili supper was moved to the following Thurs- day. This left students with an unexpected, but gladly accepted chance to prepare for the weekend ahead. With the rising cost of living and dating, inflation not only hits adults, but affects students also. While mums were being finished and decorations were being put up, students spent their spare time and money buy- ing shoes, suits and dresses to make Saturday night's date special. To top off the evening, most couples went out to eat at such places as Louie's on the Lake or Bennigan's, depending on their mond and money supply. . . Saturday night's dance in the commons: the heartbreaking game against Dobie which cost the Rangers a playoff berth; the bonfire which, instead of snug- gling up with your honey in the cool breeze of an early fall evening, you perspired in the afternoon heat; the confusion the gas leak created ... These all made you stop and think how the week had to be great — you had to keep believing it would be — or you would not have made it from Monday's English quiz to Saturday night’s kiss at the door. Knmr I)uche a .Annette Utm. Sophomore Annuito t » escorted by Outran Hicks, Wendy » schwa Wendy Walsh, and Freshman Duchooa escorted by Robert Sample and Kysn Is escorted Ky .. Amiervon wnrtr : • • - ii to represent thotr by Wayne Tubbs individual classes in thr- Homecoming Court 18 homecoming