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

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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

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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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Producing paper is no easy task Producing 1500 copies of the schoc paper monthly, the Spitfire staff created nine editions of the paper during the year. This was no easy job for the eleven writers and ten photographers, who frequently worked after school on the publication. There was advertising to be sold, pictures to be taken and lots of editing and proofreading. Choosing materials to be included in the paper was no easy task, for the staff made an effort to cover subjects of general interest to students. Spitfire editor Melissa Perez said that before each new paper began, all the staff gathered and had a brainstorming session. The Spitfire, which has been around for many years, won numerous awards, in- cluding the prestigious award of Distin- guished Merit at the Interscholastic League Press Conference CILPCJ. Spitfire advisor Susan Komandosky said One thing the judges praised us for was our complete coverage. According to Perez, this was an easier year than the previous one. Perez said, We had a smaller staff, and work was not as evenly distributed. But next year, we'll have a more experienced staff. ,, g 5 ,, Figuring out what is going to be in this month's Spitfire editor Melissa Perez, junior and reporter Steve Miner, senior, brainstorm on ideas for stories. 106 Organizations is S . ...sq , :.. :-:- A sf. .: :-- I Nessus, .im I Kim Mahagan, sophomore, was the youngest student to and for assigning them to other members of the hold an editor's position on the Spitfire. She served as As each feature was completed Kim had to edit it, feature editor and was responsible for writing features a headline and layout it out on her page. SPITFIRE: lFirlt Row, Susan Komandosky, sponsorg Hanner, Jenny Ford, Bobby Heard, Gilbert Renaud Lela Tucker, Brad Watson, Steve Miner, Melissa Perez fThird Rowl Kevin Stolle, Chris Smith, Alishia Brewer fSecond Row! Rhonda Hanna, Kim Mahagan, Tiger Doyle Haynes.