Skyline High School - Origin Yearbook (Dallas, TX)

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▼ Spreading the fever. Mark Mills finds a poten- tial buyer and attempts to spread cube fever throughout the school. Photo by Karl Pranie. ▲ Plain old M M’s. After having sold a box of M M's. Mark Mollenhauer searches for some change. Photo by Karl Pranie. ▲ Getting her two cents worth. Rochawn Miles displays her warm fuzzies while Andreaun Brown looks on. Photo by Scottie Artmann. 22 Student life

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M Pitching for glassware. Brian Armstrong and David Gibbs exhibit their marksmanship with dimes. Brian already succeeded once. ◄ Taking the Pepsi challenge. |oe Staskiewicz dares to compare Pepsi to Coke. After carefully analyzing both. |oc chose Pepsi. Student life 21

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The pain continues I’ll be glad when it’s all over. sighed rench club sponsor DeDe Averett. Like any other club sponsors. Miss Averett •eaded the day her fund raisers began t takes too much class time to collect e money.” stated Miss Averett as one :ason she disliked fund raising. Key club sponsor Leonard Davis {reed with Miss Averett. calling oney-making events necessary evils” icause they were important but a jisance to the club. Sponsors weren’t the only ones ;stered by the burden of fund raisers, udents also shared the pain having to ag their product around school. Shoot to thrill. Vincent Gipson watches as isan Byrd tries for a bullseye. The ROTC spon- red the turkey shoot as a means to pay for con- it fees. Photo by Rudy Rodriguez. always having to keep it within eye con- tact so that none got stolen or damaged. I think it’s a hassle all the way around.” commented senior Koy Ferguson. It detracts from student study and is forced on the students. Koy. like many others involved in fund raisers wormed his way out by selling the required minimum. But not everyone detested selling goods around school. Child-care cluster student Alicia Collins found her cause motivating and didn't mind having to sell M M’s. We do it to help the children.” Alicia explained. It's (throw- ing get-togethers for the preschool kids) helping us become better mothers. Junior Wesley Thompson didn’t total- ly mind selling M M’s for the French Club except that so many other organizations had previously sold them, and the demand was no longer present. “I wish we could sell something dif- ferent (than M M’s), like candy bars. added Wesley. Money from these projects was used for many purposes. Among them were scholarships, banquets, group pictures as well as fees. Though the same old M M’s reappeared on the school market, some new and original items appeared to the studying consumers. The J.V. cheerleaders sold Raider garters while varsity cheerleaders sold cheer mitts. The orchestra found the ultimate original project: imitation Rubic’s Cube. But they soon found out that like every money-making scheme, the product became monotonous and burdensome. Student life 23