Sam Houston High School - Cherokee Yearbook (Arlington, TX)

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Sitting here is the mistaken Identity of the kind of automobiles thot srudents of various high schools accuse Sam students of driving. Looks can be deceiving. Stygian bond members Shane Uys, Shane Sanders and William 5tyxx Solee show off their not so typical style.

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Sex, drugs, and rock 6 roll. Not your typical school motto, right? These characteristics, however, have been attached to our school. Others seem to have created a bad reputation for our school, which it does not rightly deserve. Has anyone ever asked you what school you go to? When you replied Sam, did they get that certain look on their face? This odd look is what has come out of the rumors about our school, Do people ever tell you that you don't look like you go to Sam? Just exactly what are we supposed to look like? Ap- parently a picture has been created of the Sam student which is quite wrong. When asked why, do they tell you that they thought everybody who went to Sam carried whips and chains? Their opinions are just unreal. People who don't go to our school think that we are all criminals. They think that we are all poor and scummy peo- ple. A student from another school actually believed that we all took drugs in the hallway. Imagine that. We are supposedly so poor, how do they think we can afford drugs! Other schools see ours as the one with the blow-off classes. Our teachers are thought to be bad and that we, the students, never go to class. These are the opinions of outsiders. They are people who do not really know us or our school. We, as true Texans, know what a terrific school Sam Houston is. Our pride in our school is evident. With our fighting Texan spirit, we can en- dure any criticism they have to dish out. .gf 10 STUDENT LlF i r l Vandalism hits Sam. Because they rake Promoting the image that has been pride ln their school, many students tached to Sam, John Zimmerman giv were angered by the writing on the the mistaken identity of beingadunc woll. E

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We XN6 ex an mfage lze jruflz gan nawer 1000 Queafiona ln the holls of Som Houston, there ore no strongersf' Thor is the true Texon imoge. Mony people feel thot Som hos the friendliest otmosphere of oll the other high schools. Controry to the belief thot oll Som students ore drug oddicts, the Student Congress Leoder- ship closs developed o pro- grom colled HEE HAW QHelp Erose Eorly Horms ond Weoknessesj. The progrom wos presented to the third ond fifth groders in the feeder schools of Som. It wos designed to help inform ond worn elementory students obout chemicol obuse. Our school guides people owoy from drugs, we don't promote lt. Another myth obout our school is thot we ore oll dumb ond illiterote. Our school hos o Whiz Quiz Teom thot hos ex- celled, ond we olso hove five commended Notionol Merit students. Our othletes hove outstonding records both on the field os well os in the clossroom. Who soys thot oll Som students ore poor? Don't they know we weor Guess jeons, too? They don't know thot our school hos stylejust like them. Everybody thinks our school is lower closs, but everyone who hos octuolly been here knows differently, commented senior Trocy Holter. After oll, money con't reploce school spirit! We olso know the true spirit. Som hos on extremely high omount of energy ond excite- ment. The Som Houston Texons flount this spirit every time we go on the field for ony event. Whether it wos bosketboll, footboll, or ony other occosion, there wos olwoys true Texon spirit ond octivity, 'riff E if pg.. I? f' ,c 1' c grzarfzi 12 Doug Fuller, Roger Mockey, Donny The definition is . . , Senior N Potter ond Mork Drown show their Tex- Frozor brushes up on her vocobulory on Moddog spirit ot o gome. mointoin high ocodemic scores. STUDENT LIFE