San Marcos High School - Rattler Yearbook (San Marcos, TX)

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Ninth readers added to SMHS in reali nment School system realignment. People prob- ably don't know what to think when this subject comes up. Well, for all who are in the dark, here is an explanation, San Marcos style. School System Realignment was a shuf- fling of students and faculty alike. Flea- lignment meant shifting from elementary to intermediate and from junior high to high school. Then there were only sixth graders at Lamar, seventh and eighth graders at Goodnight and ninth through twelth graders at San Nlarcos High. So, we spent the year growing and ad- justing to each other. f ff , is ,fe-Q,-fiffc., A sixth grade student at Lamar intermediate School ftop rightl uses a laminating machine for his science project. Freshman Marci Gaines labo vel enjoys first period English class along with her classmates. At Goodnight Junior High School lrightl these girls use library period to read current magazines. 76 -School system realignment 41-

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we fee' Q 3 Summer ! The weekend of the year! Just as long awaited weekend affords an op- portunity to dash down to the coast to surf, go camping or escape with a friend and a frisbee, the summer season pro- vides a chance to stop and catch up: a time for discovering and becoming. But summer finally ended and the new year suddenly came crashing upon us. For most of us the first day of school was filled with change and sprinkled with once in a lifetime experiences. We establish a mood these first weeks of school as we established ourselves and we understood the importance of being joyful together as we all hesitantly shuffled onto the threshold of the new year. School brings end to summer 'V an Patrick Weatherford and Jeff Keller labo vel can 't believe who their first period teacher is. David Scoggins fleftl spies something in the distant while talking to a friend. First day of school-15

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