Round Rock High School - Dragon Yearbook (Round Rock, TX)

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Staff puts in long hours of work Deadlines, deadlines, deadlines The yearbook staff members put many hours of behind the scene work into providing students with a published memory. For the past several years the Dragon has been a fall book in order to include the spring ac- tivities. Some of this behind the scenes work included long hours after school draw- ing layouts, printing pictures and writing copy. Although this was the first year in several the staff did not do a slide show, yearbook sales increased by over 200 books. A new ,r N? ,ii DRAGON STAFF: QFirst Bowl Susan Komandosky, Robin Jeter, Barbara Graham, Leslie Sansom, Brenda Evans. QSecond Row, Robin Shear, 'Shelly Strickland, Trina Hunn, Veronica Buckles, Yolanda Rodriguez, ill incentive provided members who sold more than 25 books with a complimentary copy of the Dragon. Also new was the addition of free gold name imprints on the book if it was purchased the first day of sales. The top salesman on the staff was junior Brenda Evans, organizations editor, who sold 48 books. With a new advisor, Susan Komandosky, and a young staff, the members worked ex- tra hard to make deadlines. They also at- tended various conventions and workshops around the state. 3 Jennifer Simpson. lThird Row! Craig Collinsworth, Matt McCullough, Lisa Conner, Keith Barnes, John Roalson. . Q f Everyone can tell when a deadline strikes. Advisor Susan Komandosky stacks up on soft drinks to help quench the thirst of dedicated journalists. . Before completing and turning in pages, all students and faculty in the pictures must be identified and index- ed. Trina Hunn, sophomore, indexes students' names. va,- MJWM Q., in W -'sn Editing the yearbook involves hours of tedious work. Often, some pages take more than the work of just one two editors shared the responsibilities of the entire class Dragon editor, Barbara Graham, junior, requests person. Junior Jennifer Simpson helps Yolanda and faculty section as well as senior achievement pages prints for unfinished pages, Rodriguez, senior, layout a class officer page. These and administrator coverage. 1 O4 Organizations

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,ta fi' if I M .M s H A a r Gil Garza, freshman, John Paramo, sophomore, Jerry Salazar, senior, and Chris Jenkins, senior, listen as Maria Proctor, sponsor, discusses the times and places is if the TAME group will go on their field trips. TAME took field trips to Texas A8zM, UT, and Balcones Research Center. 47 9-4 fx g TAME: lFirst Rowl Maria Proctor, sponsor, Melissa Zamarippa, Steve Carlin, Frank Magana, Gil Garza, Hernandez, Joe Ruiz, Charles Houston, Peter Beltran, Bobby Perez, Jerry Salazar fSecond Row! Olivia John Paramo, Chris Jenkins tBack Rowj Orlando Gon- zales, Arthur Zamarripa. TAME group tours college campuses Although the Texas Association for Minorities in Engineering CTAMED has been at Round Rock for three years, last year was its first year as a club. Under the sponsorship of sophomore counselor Maria Proctor, the club took field trips to Texas A8rM, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Balcones Research Center. At UT, the students visited the World of Engineering, sponsored by UT's engineering department. Besides field trips, the club also par- ticipated in a raffle to raise money for scholarships. The scholarships are given to any TAME students who plan to attend college. Club officers included Jerry Salazar, president, Orlando Gonzales, vice-president, Martha DeLeon, treasurer, Gil Garza, secretary, and Rudy Ortegon, represent- ative to Student Council. Zia, ' Maria Proctor, sponsor, discusses plans with TAME members for their field trip to Texas A8rM. Organizations 103

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Sag, ' . .... ilisgrsqgs., I X Q Q s S' Q' . s , , I 5 it it V' , .X ff k Working diligently on her section, junior Robin Shear, academics editor, proofreads cutlines before turning her pages in to be mailed to the publisher. Disputes over headlines is common when sports editors John Roalson, junior, and Lisa Conner, junior, work together to complete their pages. Here, John attempts to persuade Lisa to use his idea. is if 79 . T Juniors Veronica Buckles, Brenda Evans and Shelly Strickland share ideas on how to lay out the organiza- tion pages. This section required a lot of time and the work of more than one staff member. Almost all staff members aided in completing this section. W 'king closely together, seniors Leslie Sansom and Roost Jeter attempt to capture the flavor of student life at school for their section of the yearbook. Robin is working on feature copy while Leslie tries to identify and write cutlines for her pictures. Both served as photographers when candid shots of students were needed. Organizations 105