Skyline High School - Origin Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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Opening — Ten and on 4 People 10 Organizations 46 Clusters 110 Faculty 162 Sports 198 Honors 260 Classes 278 Ad and Index 428 Closing — Ten and on 490 Contents Tasty subject. Swim coach and biology teacher Audris Zidermanis lectures on the tongue. '10 and on 3

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There's no place like home. Buckner Children's Home served as Skyline's original, though tem- porary, home until March 1971. A real original. Ann Schuessler aids Bruce Levy in a library search. Ms. Schluessler, cluster coordinator and social science chairman, has been at Skyline since its opening. Zeroing in. Math teacher Mary Erwin helps one of her students correct a problem. Mrs. Erwin, then known as Miss Battle, helped open Sky- line. 2 lOandon

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10 and on as ... District tightens belts Cut-backs were familiar to all involved in the DISD. With $4.5 million less in state revenues, the no-tax-increase budget, approved at the Aug. 3 school board meeting, meant less for many. The cut meant less for teachers who proba- bly felt the pinch most. They were granted a 5.1 per cent pay increase, which was 5 per cent less than they had strived for and 10 per cent less than the predicted rise in inflation. Picketers from American Federation of Teachers and Classroom Teachers of Dallas voiced their opposition to the meager raise. Some expressed fears that they would have to move on to better-paying districts or new careers. Some monetary losses for the district added to the problem. The Foundation for Quality Education, set up by former Superintendent Nolan Estes, was placed in receivership after more than $700,000 was found to be mis-spent or mis-used. William Oswalt, owner of Maxwell Con- struction Company, found his company and his home under scrutiny by the district, the media and the FBI following charges of shoddy workmanship, double-billing, over-billing and billing for work not done. Athletic director Kedric Couch was found guilty of conflict of interest following sales of property to the district. Couch was able to buy land the district wanted at deflated prices and sell it for as much as 200 per cent profit. He agreed to return profits to the districts after the board made its decision. Superintendent Linus Wright tried to account for district money by ordering investi- gations into questionable handlings of money. Those involved in the district watched some problems deepen and others resolve; all looked to the next year in hopes that the dis- trict would get back on its feet. Pride doesn't feed our kids. Carrying a sign to protest low wages, Ramon Arguelles walks the picket line with AFT and CTD members.